I was on the way home yesterday and realised I needed to put some fuel in the camper. I pulled into the service station and, eventually, I was able to pull up to a set of pumps. I climbed out of the vehicle into heavy rain, walked around to the filler, got it ready and was just about to begin filling when a public spirited taxi driver shouted to me to move forward as I was stopping the driver behind him from pulling up to the third pump. His request would have been fine if only he had used more appropriate means of asking. saying, "Come on, they do stretch you know" and "He's been waiting in the road for ages" are not calculated to encourage a middle aged man with rain running down the back of his neck and in a certain amount of pain from an arthritic old body. Even when I got back in the cab and moved forward for him he couldn't leave it alone. "There now, don't you feel better for doing that?" is not going to help at all. He even continued his inane ramblings up until I left the forecourt and then honked at me as he swanned away in the bus lane whilst I sat in a long queue of traffic. And, no doubt, he will be calling me all sorts of names because I was snappy with him...........Wazuck!!
When we eventually got home, I cleaned off the woodwork at the very top of the top landing and found that the wood itself is in good condition and very solidly fitted. It doesn't need to be removed or replaced thank goodness. I will paint over it with plaster paint and that will be a much quicker job than undercoat and gloss topcoat for an area that no one ever sees up close anyway. Also, as I now have the wood, I will fit the last three pieces of new skirting board and smooth down the already filled wood ready for painting.
