Anyway....
Even tho' I haven't been getting much use out of my garden furniture, and even tho' it's nearly the end of the summer, I though I should do something about the state that my poor table and chairs are in.
Despite the fact that I have oiled them regularly as described in the very detailed instructions that they came with, they really are looking a bit sorry and rather the 'worse for wear':
What to do with them is the question? Throw them out and get new one's? That seems like a waste, but I'm not going to try oiling them again, that too is just a waste, of my time. So, the decision is made, it's going to be a paint job.
After endless hours in Woodies wandering round the paint section and mulling over what colour to use, I finally decided on Purple Berry, which won't blend in with anything in my garden, but that colour paint was on sale, and it really is quite a nice colour, I think...
To get the best finish possible, I thought I better sand the table and chairs before I did any painting. And of course, as I never have any proper tools to do any jobs around the house, I had to pay a visit to the man who has them all. Dad! I only went looking for a sheet of sand paper, but I came home armed with enough sand paper to make a beach, and this fantastic gadget which would save me endless hours of scrubbing and scraping, and best of all not leave me ending up with an aching elbow! I do love a good gadget.
After brushing away the cobwebs and evicting all the spiders that were living underneath the table, I was dying to get going with my new toy. But, not being happy just to do one job at a time, I decided, (having being sent a new recipe which included lentils) to cook the dinner at the same time.
So I put some lentils on to boil. Then I went outside to sand the table.
Yes, you've guessed it, I got so carried away with the sander, which by the way did exactly as it says on the tin and left a lovely finish for me to paint, that I forgot all about the lentils. So all the time and elbow grease I saved with the sander, was spent trying to clean the pot after the lentils boiled over. I never learn, and ended up with the aching elbow that I was trying to avoid in the first place, from scrubbing the burnt pot.
And of course, the minute, no, the second I put the brush in the paint tin, it started to rain!! Is nothing going to go right for me??
Luckily the rain didn't last long and I got to work and spent the next few hours painting and singing along to the radio.
I'm sure you're dying to see the finished result? Well here it is, looking just like a photo I saw in the Woodies catalogue:
Good enough to eat your dinner off I'd say! That's if you hadn't burnt the dinner earlier!
I am loving the finished result. And even tho' I have, not literally but actually, painted over the cracks, I think it will do me now for another couple of years. But I'm no so sure that Kevin likes it. He came home from work, looked out the kitchen window and exclaimed in a highly indignant voice "For God's sake, why is the garden furniture purple!?"
I don't know where I went wrong...
PS. Trisha, if you're reading this, it was Ronseal paint that I used! Ha!!
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