Richard has been doing a lot of work on the house: sanding, filling and repainting the front to make it look more respectable. This isn't something we had expected to do on a rental house, and it's hard work. But he does enjoy being warm in the sunshine.
We're expecting our first overnight guests tomorrow (people from our Church in the UK, who are visiting Cyprus on holiday). So - leaving things to the last minute, as ever - we decided we had better buy another mattress. The bed we have borrowed is really quite uncomfortable, and we didn't feel we could ask guests to sleep on it. We have a small, old sofa-bed where we intend to sleep for that night, but we had to find a new mattress for the main bed.
Then we heard of someone selling a bed. We hadn't really wanted an entire bed, but perhaps it was better to have one of our own. We decided we had nothing to lose - so we went to have a look at it. It turned out to be a king-size bed with magnolia facings, and a built-in radio in the headboard, as well as two little bedside drawer units.
The mattress did feel comfortable, and it all looked to be in excellent condition. As we considered it, the owners said they were throwing out two old sofas, and added that if we bought the bed we could have those for nothing. So as they seemed quite good sofas (albeit rather tatty) we decided to go ahead. We agreed a price of £100 for the lot, to be collected tomorrow.
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