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It's been a pretty rough year for many of you, and, I think, you guys over there have had it far worse than us.

I hope your Christmas day goes well, and the coming year proves to be far better than the one just gone.

Merry Christmas all.

Yes - what they ^^^ said!

Thanks for your hard work over the years, Ladies !

Yay!

Congrats Gilly

Sorry - can't offer any help for the fence painting. Not a job I'd fancy ....

But:

I've had situations inside where regular paint simply didn't cover well even after several coats. Either because the existing colour was too deep/strong or, in one particularly troublesome place, stains kept coming through (rat piss stains in the ceiling). I found that the local big box hardware recommended and supplied a shellac based stain seal/primer/undercoat. It worked exceptionally well. And, being shellac based, it is pretty universal for what it will cover and what will cover it.

The 10th marks laurie9300 seventh year off the smokes.

Well done, congrats!

Yep. All sorted now though, that little lot happened a month or so ago. So, all over now, well, except for regrowing the lawn. Oh, and getting over paying the bill! Needless to say, that little lot cost a bunch.


May not be such an issue for you over there. Different climates and all. BUT here, we found those bushes suffered in our direct summer sun. Lot of burned/scorched leaves and such. They wanted protection from the light & heat. I think they call it "dappled light" or somesuch.  But that's our summer: long periods of high 30s (with a few 40s thrown in for good measure) with no cloud/shade. They did get plenty of water, so it was just the heat/light. Prolly not an issue for you though. Seemed to like a bit of a feed periodically too.

Good luck with Trev.