It’s OK To Be Wrong!

Friday

Today was the day…

We discovered how awfully wrong we could be at choosing tiles!! Remember this….?

The patterned “Mediterranean Blue” looks terrible on the wall! The tiler put up a four rows of it in the guest loo and I have to admit, it looks pretty bad.  I don’t know if the room is too small or the floor is too light or the lighting is too dull, but it just  doesn’t work in this space.

Sooooo, after much discussion, I phoned the builder and asked him to take the whole lot down! Yes! We decided best to pull the plug on it while it was still fresh and easy to take off. It’s okay to be wrong. Just admit it as quickly as possible and move on. I love this set of tiles, but not in this volume, on a wall or in this room. It may work in a courtyard. One of the biggest issues we identified seeing it all like this is that it looks dirty.

Other things are happening. Julian’s floor is going in and that looks great…

The view from my work station. Our balcony roof is going on…

It poured with rain today. It was warm and cosy inside Echo while the rain was falling. It’s going to be a much warmer house than our current one.

Other good news of the day is that my sister, Anne was discharged from hospital. So glad for her to be home and in her own bed. I think she will sleep well tonight with none of the disruptions that come throughout the night in hospital.

So it’s the weekend AND I’m off work Monday and Tuesday.

Corona stats – South Africa – country-wide…

  • Friday 24th July – 13944 new cases (maximum we had in a day)– 250 deaths (245 771 recoveries/169 882 active) It’s now three weeks since we had the day with the highest number of new cases.
  • Friday 21st August – 3398 new cases – 212 deaths (500102  recoveries/90393 active)
  • Sat 22nd August – 3707 new cases – 144 deaths (50412 recoveries/89931 active)
  • Sun 23rd August – 2728 new cases – 72 deaths (506470 recoveries/90244 active)
  • Mon 24th August –  1677 new cases– 100 deaths (516414 recoveries/ 81717 active)
  • Tues 25th August – new recent low 1567 – 149 deaths (520381 recoveries/ 79328 active)
  • Wed 26th August – 2684 new cases – 194 deaths (525242 recoveries/ 76957 active)
  • Thur 27 August – 2585 new cases – 126 deaths (531338 recoveries/73 320 active)

Total cases: 618286  Total deaths: 13628

Psalm 119:98

Your commands are always with me and make me wiser than my enemies.

The best is yet to come.

Keep the smile going.

God bless you.

In His Grip,

Helga xx 🙂

Braces:

1 year and 289 days.

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