Painting

4 – 7 August 2009

Steve has come to stay – as a surprise I went to Kupang to meet him at the airport and travel back to Rote with him. Once we had taken his luggage to the house we went down town to buy a large tub of paint. I was after a cream, beige of light yellow but my first four choices were habis – finished – so I had to settle for a rather bright yellow. It is actually quite a pleasant colour; it just not go with the pink curtains which I have in all the rooms.

The rooms in the house are all quite tall and even standing on a chair Steve could not paint all the way up the walls. I therefore asked to borrow a step ladder from work. When it arrived we discovered that the side restraints were missing and it was only held together by wire cable. Steve sensibly decided to wait until I was back before climbing the steps. Unfortunately they were definitely designed for people of his weight and started to buckle so I had to paint the top of all the rooms. The one large tub of paint just lasted to finish all the internal rooms.