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Back in the day when we still occasionally thought about doing it ourselves (stop it) we bought some paint to paint the living room. The living room was horribly cluttered then and has not got any less so since, and the Countess and I continue to fail at healthy, but the conservatory is still fairly empty, and if we are ever going to claim it as our own, a coat of paint is a must. Before, you know, we cover the walls with shelves.

So the Countess asked unto me, saying, Where is this paint for which we paid much money back in the day? And I answered her, saying, Search me, but lo, she was not in the mood.

The last few weeks have been punctuated by her worrying about these two tins of paint (whether they've been stolen, whether I threw them away because I do that kind of thing, whether they've exploded all over her antique Nottingham lace shawl and so on) and me looking for them, upstairs downstairs and in my lady's chamber, and getting panicky because I can't find them or even actually remember buying them. And, to cut a long story short--

ENTIRE BLOGOSPHERE: Too late!

--this morning, when she told me she hadn't had any sleep for clockworking about these damn tins of paint, I went downstairs, and there, in a sealed Sainsbury's plastic carry box in the corner under the shelves in the utility room behind the crate full of booze we don't seem to drink any more *deep breath*--was the paint.

Phew.

In other news, I shall hope to have at least one shop bit for you today.

Date: 2008-11-25 11:20 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] were-gopher.livejournal.com
Now all you have to find is the thinners and the brushes and the painting cloths to chuck on the ground.

Date: 2008-11-25 12:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dickgloucester.livejournal.com
And the primer to prepare raw new walls. And the rollers. And the stuff to clean everything.

Date: 2008-11-25 02:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zanda-myrande.livejournal.com
Got all that already. It was just these two tins we couldn't find.

Date: 2008-11-25 12:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dickgloucester.livejournal.com
Well, finding the paint is a good start. I think I'll have my work cut out to find the pain I boughtt for the Bathroom of Doom by the time we get round to needing it. :-(

*eagerly awaiits more of the shop*

Date: 2008-11-25 12:38 pm (UTC)
aunty_marion: iGranny (iGranny)
From: [personal profile] aunty_marion
Um. Well. I think that's one of the places I'd have probably *started* looking for paint... (Others being under the stairs, though since you've remodelled that recently I'd now assume you know what's there and what isn't), and the back floor-level of the storage cupboard off the futility room!)

Have you managed to open it to check it's still usable, though? *g*

Date: 2008-11-25 01:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hurdle1gal.livejournal.com
What, paint has an expiration date?

Date: 2008-11-25 01:45 pm (UTC)
aunty_marion: iGranny (iGranny)
From: [personal profile] aunty_marion
Not as such, but it will (depending on the type) go hard, separate, form a thick skin on top (which may eventually go all the way down, see 'go hard'!), and/or change colour due to the pigments oxidising. I've had to throw away tins of paint that have hardened almost completely. If it's not been opened, though, it *should* still be OK.

Date: 2008-11-25 04:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lutos.livejournal.com
Nice icon! :)

Date: 2008-11-25 05:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lutos.livejournal.com
I'm glad you still like the color of said paint. After all, it might've been a pain(t) in the ... after such a quest to discover that your taste had changed since you bought it. ;)

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