Squeezing tea bags
17·May·07
We’re having our hideously grotty hallway carpet pulled up to reveal the 100-year-old pine floorboards underneath. Generally, they look great, and with a bit of intense industrial sanding down have “come up lovely” (as my dear Nana used to say). Never mind that said intense industrial sanding has covered the entire house in a thin layer of dust…
4 of the floorboards were a bit manky though so we’ve replaced those with some new pine ones, which stand out gleaming (quite unattractively) in all their newness
So I’m by turns working today whilst also pottering down to the hallway every half-an-hour to squeeze a handful of tea bags and paint the resulting brown slop over the new floorboards, in a misguided effort to get the new boards looking as mature as the old ones.
It’s not really working too well I’d say, but by heck does squeezing tea bags over your hallway floor make you feel good! Highly recommended.
[UPDATE] 12 hours later, it’s 11:20pm, and I’m now on my hand and knees rubbing dirt from the garden into the boards. They look very dirty.
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