Cranium

 It's been a funny old day. We were up soon after 7:00 and the Gorse Fox popped round to Urban-Cub to walk to school with Ellie. Then home and recaffeinated, he sat down with the Silver Vixen to look at paint colours. It may be a first world problem, but the range from which we could choose was huge. Over the space of an hour or so we finally down-selected to three colours. Only some samples would help finalise the choice. The Gorse Fox hopped in the car and popped along to the Dulux Decorator Centre in Chichester. It only took a few minutes for them to mix the three tester pots and the Gorse Fox headed back home (clutching a couple of colour charts and three small tins). The new colour charts meant that we had another hour of colour searching, but decided we had probably already got the best colours. Tomorrow we'll get some lining paper and try the samples in different places in the hall, on the stairs, and on the landing to see which we prefer.

Mid afternoon the doorbell rang. The man from DPD was clutching a box. The Silver Vixen had ordered a metal sculpture for the garden. We soon had it unpacked and assembled. We can't really site it until the garden is done next month, but for the moment we have a bronze crane trying to take flight in the Orangery.