Cycling Tuesday: 8.7km
Swimming Tuesday: 1.25km
Walking Wednesday: 3.8km
Cycling Thursday: 8.4km
Walking Friday: 3.8km
Quite a triathlon of a week ......
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Progress on the gable end house painting:
High work first coat.
End of day one - first sizing coat on all of the wall.
Start of the top coat:
I had assumed that the wall was originally painted but as we worked our way over it I'm more and more inclined to the view that it has never been painted in sixty years as we found no trace of any previous paint finish. There's a certain grey streaked concrete finish that one can see on houses all over France that might be original unfinished concrete or may be very well weathered old paint - it's hard to tell. Certainly our west facing wall takes all the wind and winter rain and the concrete had become very porous so as soon as the rain came the wall was visibly wet. Now two coats of Dulux Weathershield later it should resist the water and allow the moisture in the wall to evaporate.
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