Restoration Complete

Although the weather is not as spectacularly sunny as it was during May, it is now basically warm most days because it really is summer now. All is well at Casa Anderson; working and studying from home, gardening, projects around the house. James has finished restoring the blanket box that was in his Mum’s cellar and it looks fantastic. After much paint-stripping, sanding, and filling in holes, he has applied three coats of varnish and it has come up a lovely warm chestnut colour. It still bears the many marks of its long history of use, presumably as a blanket box to start with and then as a children’s toy chest. But I think that adds to its character, and I wouldn’t change a thing.