So, time for a bit of attention for the older members of the Grandchildren Clan and a bit of assistance with putting a blind up in the bedroom for one of the young men, one of two who will be hitting 21 this year!!!.
Now the decorating was done a long time ago, so long in fact that it really is ready for another coat, but he and I made a good job of it at the time and all the room needed was a blind to finish it off!
Not being one to rush into things it has taken himself the best part of two years to buy the blind but, at last, it was a tangible presence and needed installing.
So round I went with my trusty electric drill to drill the holes for the screws.
The whole thing was an interesting experience and took the pair of us basically the entire afternoon. The instructions were somewhat scanty, one was even the direct reverse of what we actually needed to do! The diagrams did not look like the parts we had and in order to get the brackets up we had to drill additional holes in the brackets.
There was much measuring, cutting and sawing and when at last the time came to actually fit the blind to the brackets, did it slide in like a hot knife through butter, did it heck as like, but after a bit of wiggling pushing and nudging it was up.
It also fitted pretty well into the window recess and almost completely blocked out the sunlight, so at least he can now put the light on in his bedroom without anyone seeing into his room.
However it is a roller blind with a sidewinder and clearly has a delicate disposition needing slow and measured winding up and down.
I’ll give it until himself, coming home after a couple or four bevies, gives the sidewinder a rather too firm a pull!!!!
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