We were out at the SMADC offices today – the SMADC being something like Syndicat Mixte pour l’Amenagement et Developpement des Combrailles – where we discussed our tactics for the radio programme. Christian was there with his floozy and I was there with Liz. I have plenty of ideas and Liz approves of them and as far as the SMADC and the radio station go, then I don’t imagine that they will care less as long as we do it.
Apart from that, this morning I cracked on with my plasterboarding and it’s all but finished now. All I need to do now is to join things up with the tape and then fill over it. Of course I have put my jointing tape somewhere safe – so safe in fact that I can’t find it now. That’s a badger! But as soon as I find it and tape things up I can start to do the ceiling – with tongue-and-grooving. I can do that on my own and I don’t have any inhibitions as to how it’ll look.
And Claude came round. Yesterday finished him off for good and he wants to pause until Monday. He’s getting his son up over the weekend to move the heavy objects ready for us to load on Monday. But on Monday Terry is giving blood, Tuesday Liz and I are in studio and on Wednesday we are all at the bank. This timetable for moving Claude is shrinking rapidly.
So is the programme going to be circular, square, oblong, oval or will it und up going pear-shaped?
Tongue and grooving downstairs too? All the ceilings?
Clearly Terry didn’t live in Britain under Thatcher. She would have sucked all his blood permanently.
Pear-shaped probsbly.
But with the tongue-and-grooving I’m just using it to hide where I’ve put insulation between the joists. I shan’t be doing that of course in the ceiling of the ground floor as I want the heat to penetrate upstairs into the bedroom and bathroom.
I’d be much happier using plasterboard but I have issues with doing that myself. I can cope with t&g all on my own.