What made you smile recently?

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I’m off to the doc’s today, maybe I should try this one out:

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Morning Glory said:
Good news indeed although I have to say the elected candidate is not exactly wonderful.
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I have voted in similar elections. I don't know if anyone of you has ever seen the movie Master and Commander with Russel Crowe, but in the movie there is a line where a joke is made regarding "The lesser of two weevils" and honestly, when I voted for Joe Biden, I was really just voting against Donald Trump. I think many French people were doing the same in this election.

The Lesser of Two Weevils - Voice & Vision, Inc.
'Two insects (weevils) are eating crumbs on a plate. Crowe asks one of the officers which one of the insects he would choose—which one is better. The officer plays along with the odd question by saying he’d choose the bigger, stronger one. Crowe smiles slyly and dismisses the man’s answer by saying, “One must always choose the lesser of two weevils.”'
 
The Velvet Curtain said:
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Yep, I remember that but worse still is something called "church finish' where the plaster on the walls is not smooth but deliberately swirled and swished into a unique, one off random "pattern". You can't paint it with a roller and hand painting with a brush is murder. Up, down, side to side & back again will still miss painting it... even spraying it won't work (if it were even viable inside a house) because there are bits where the plaster needs to be painted where it's actually almost facing the wall because gravity pulls the plaster down as it dries causing indents in the ridges and valleys that make up the surface. It needs all those movements that kids paint with, those as adults we're told not to do to paint walls...

One Easter hubby & I decided to repaint the sitting room (the entire house was in this finish). It had not been painted in 40 odd years so given it was a large sitting room (entire ground floor of the cottage, upstairs there was a landing and 2 bedrooms in the same space) and the ceiling needed painting as all (around the exposed wooden beams) we set aside 3 days to do it.

A friend decided to randomly drop in for 5 nights as she used to, so we had 3 of us instead... long story short, it took 3 people, 12hrs a day, 5 days to paint that room. It also took 2×20L of paint because the plaster was like blotting paper and 2 coats were needed. The second coat was much easier than the first. I seriously will never live in a house with that finish again.

The sitting room did look a hell of a lot better for a coat of paint though!
 
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