We have been building the camper van all day.
It has been such a nice thing to do. It is coming on brilliantly, the picture at the top shows the new shelves that Mark has been building at the end of the new bunk bed for Lucy that he has been building.
If you look closely you might be able to spot the beautiful rose-patterned vinyl covering the shelves and also the cork tiles on the wall which is at the end of the shelves.
I stuck all of that on.
Sticking things on was my contribution to the day, and even then Mark got impatient sometimes and had to come and help, when it came to the cork tiles on the ceiling he actually peeled them all off and stuck them back on again differently, because they weren’t quite lined up in the exact way that he thought that they should be.
Actually they weren’t lined up at all because I didn’t think it was important, and only discovered that it was when he started to get cross.
It is exciting and lovely. I have been cutting out carpet bits to stick on the walls, because this helps make the camper van feel warm and cosy and also hides all the uneven bits underneath. This was more difficult than it sounds because as soon as I unrolled a bit of carpet in the sunshine to measure it and cut it into shape, both the dogs immediately lay on it.
I do not at all possess the sort of intelligence that makes you able to imagine what a carpet would look like if you turn it upside down and draw the shape it has got to be on the back of it, and I got in the most dreadful muddle, especially where it had to go round the windows and also I had got to try and cut round the dogs.
In the end we didn’t even stick the carpet on to the walls. I spent ages and ages cutting it to the right shape and hiding the bits that I had cut to the wrong shape, and in the end Mark said that he wanted to put the wiring in for the lights first and we would stick the carpet up tomorrow. After all of that worrying, in the end I have had to come home not knowing if it will all slot beautifully into place, or if I have made dreadful mistakes and when we put it on the walls I might have cut all of the windows in the wrong place.
Mark has been doing clever things whilst I have got confused. He has got a tool called a router which he uses to cut grooves in things in just the right place so things fit together like the bits of a jigsaw. Everything slots together really nicely now, except anything that I have done, and it makes me feel very excited about having such a lovely camper van, made out of beautifully interlocking bits of pine with lovely stuck-on rose patterned vinyl.
In the end we came home and had interesting Dutch cheese with crackers for dinner, also a couple of glasses of wine which might help to account for this being short and a bit incoherent. I love not working and it doesn’t matter if I go to sleep or feel intoxicated.
We are going to have an early night and have another go tomorrow.
See you then.
