Still alive and kicking!

It's all been a bit quiet on this blog recently, for which I apologise to my many thousands of followers. I'm not sure what the reason is really but one cause for non-blogging is that we've got the builders in. Well, I say got them in, waiting for them to come in is more like it. And what a wait it's been, like waiting for Godot (I'm sure he must have been a builder.)

We've had some bits and pieces done but the main work has still not started. I thought there was a recession on and people were desperate for work but not the trades people we know. They seem to have plenty of work and it's all more important than ours. Eventually they might deign to favour us with a few hours of their time,  probably doing 30% of the job before disappearing to another job (or their villa in Barbados) leaving us wailing and gnashing our teeth, stressed out of our gourds and back in en attendent Godot mode.

I've just been slapping a bit of paint on here and there in a kind of random fashion, this being the only fashion I know when it comes to painting. I am really bad at it and I hate it (not too sure which way round the cause and effect works here.) My wife is much better than me at painting and I am only too pleased to acknowledge this (quelle surprise!) My painting attempts usually last about 5 minutes until the paint goes somewhere it shouldn't and I start to panic and call for my other half to come running, howling with anguish like a 3 year-old with a wasp sting. I managed today's exercise without this performance but did get a bit of paint on a new t-shirt (yes I know I shouldn't have been wearing it) which drew withering comments from 'er indoors. So I guess I came out of all this roughly brownie-point neutral.

Anyway, onwards and upwards. Reading the above, I think I've just come up with a couple of acronyms which could sweep the net like IMHO and IANALB ("I am not a lawyer but", in case you were wondering.) So that's STROOOG (stressed out of our gourds) and BPN (brownie-point neutral). What do you think? Give it a few months and then check out the OED.

Must go - I hear a white van. Could it be that Godot est arrive? One lives in hope...