Watching Paint Dry

I had just got out of the bath this morning when Miss E came in to say that Miss A had messaged her and asked did we want to go swimming. Now!
It does make me smile that they can now organise their own social lives without any parental involvement. Of course it won't make me smile in a few years, it'll make me quake in my boots!!!
So we headed straight down and had a lovely hour. The Little Misses had fun with Miss A and Miss J and I had a nice chat with Mrs F. 
And trod water while she did lengths.
The rest of the day was spent looking at Bongos, looking at Bongo conversions, looking at pictures of Bongos on Instagram and emailing a dealer about an hour from here. Trying to arrange to go and see his Bongos is like trying to get access MI5!!
You can only visit if you know exactly what you want, have an exact budget in mind and can shortlist two or three vans from a stocklist which he will email to you if/when you satisfy the first two criteria!
And when you ask if you can visit on Sunday, or next weekend or a couple of other specified dates he emails back "sorry we're closed Sunday"
Uuuuuughhhhhhh, such hard work. But he's relatively local, has has some low mileage vans at decent prices so I'll persevere!!
Mr K and I had to laugh at ourselves tonight. We were watching something on tape (I still haven't quite accepted the digital age and still say taped!!) and when we turned it off the TV was on BBC4. I was just about to flick through the TV guide when we became transfixed by a programme about a man building a chair. 
No words, no music, no view of the man's face - just his hands, his tools and lots of bits of wood. Mesmorising!!!!!
We kept saying we must turn it off and watch something else but we couldn't!!! We had to watch to the end until he'd finished the bloody chair. 
We are the most boring people on the planet!!!
I've just checked and it's still available on iPlayer for another 21 days so hurry up if you want to watch it!!!!!!

This is what they say about it: 
This programme follows the slow and painstaking process of making a classic Windsor chair.

A beautifully simple object, it is in fact anything but. Filmed over five days, the film reveals the complex, time-consuming processes involved in creating the chair, made by Jim Steele in his Warwickshire workshop. 

This traditional design features woods chosen for their different qualities - ash, elm and hard-to-source yew.

Jim makes just twelve such chairs each year, using traditional techniques and aided by few modern tools. There are just two screws in the finished chair. From the steam bending of the back to the turning of spindles, the carving of the seat to the planing of the arms, it's a remarkable process to observe.

The bold style of the film, making use of long, static shots with no music or commentary allows the viewer to admire in exquisite detail the painstaking craftsmanship.