I called over to see my Mum this afternoon, she had the new hall, stairs and landing carpet fitted today and it looks very nice. I also bought some new skirting board for her living room to fit in the gap where the fireplace used to be, just need to cut mitres in the new board and fit it in place.
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A wet and windy Thursday
I took my Mum to the Royal Glamorgan Hospital this morning, she was convinced that she’d be there for a few hours so insisted that I didn’t wait and she’d phone when she needed a lift home. Three quarters of an hour later she rang to say she was ready. 🙂
I received another delivery from Jorgensen today so it will be all systems go over the next few days to complete the remaining album orders. More fun with the 3M repositionable pressure mounting film. 🙁
A cold Tuesday
I had intended going to my Welsh class this morning, I’ve missed a number of weeks following my recent surgery, unfortunately Julie rang this morning to say that she’s unable to run the class today as she’s not feeling very well. 🙁
I spent the morning applying 3M repositionable pressure mount to a large number of photographs ready to mount them in the albums I’m currently working on. Perhaps one day someone will devise a mounting product that is easy to use, so far this time I’ve avoided cutting my fingers with the scalpel. 🙂
Jason called in this evening to collect the print order from his and Jennie’s wedding. Their Jorgensen wedding album is being delivered this week so their album should be ready at the end of the week. With a bit of luck I should have completed all the current album orders this week.
A damp Monday
Monday is generally the day when I perform the various computer housekeeping tasks on the systems we run here. The routine consists of mainly running various utilities to remove annoying tracking cookies, checking that nothing malicious has managed to get through the various firewalls and archiving old data to DVD or external storage.
I also spent a little bit of time looking at some actions and templates for Photoshop for creating composite album pages, I usually use custom album design software but thought it would be interesting just to try the more manual method of doing it natively within Photoshop.
Here is a little test design I generated. Not sure if I’d use this particular design in a real album but it was fun creating the layout.
A very wet Sunday
We went to John & Ida’s in Pontypridd for lunch, the staff are terrific as is the Sunday lunch and the home made rice pudding is superb. We called into Tesco at Upper Boat on the way home to stock up on food.
We spent most of the evening chatting with family and friends on Messenger, it’s just so easy these days to keep in touch with people and it’s really great to be able to have a video conversation, much nicer than just typing at the keyboard.
A damp Friday
I had a haircut this morning, something I needed before I went into hospital a few weeks ago!
I drove my Mum to Caerphilly where she ordered some new carpet for her hall, stairs and landing – it’s being fitted next week. We called into Tesco at Upper Boat on the way back for her to do some shopping.
I had an email from Tom Gwillim this afternoon, he and Filiz are now the proud parents of a baby boy, born yesterday – great news!
A wet Thursday
Llantrisant for some shopping and a coffee at Starbucks.
I had an album delivery today so have another album to make up over the next few days.
I installed the new version of TDA – the design software from Albums Australia, this afternoon, it has a number of enhancements which look very interesting.
A bright Monday
I had my follow up appointment at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital this morning, unfortunately I will ned some further surgery which will be scheduled as soon as possible. 🙁
Lunch at Leekes and then a wander around the Mumbles just outside Swansea and a coffee at Verdis on the sea front, it was a lovely afternoon for a stroll and very nice to be out and about.
An overcast Tuesday
The daily visits from the district nurse have come to an end, they’re calling next on Thursday to check on me and see how the antibiotics are working.
I received a large delivery of prints back from the lab today so tomorrow will be spent completing a number of orders.
A cold bright Sunday
I spent quite an uncomfortable night and when the district nurse visited this morning she referred me back to the hospital where they put me on another course of antibiotics to see if it will clear up the infection that I’ve developed. 🙁 Other than the trip to the hospital a fairly quiet day.
I’m keeping up to date with all the album and print orders that are continuing to come in but I can only work on the computer for short stints, luckily I’m not the sort of person who lets work build up into a backlog.