A welcome surprise visit from julian and Dorothy. Long chat about Dorothy's employment prospects which sound positive, and Julian cleared up the mess in my front area and dismantled a huge plant which was in danger of taking over the back garden. Much needed but plenty more to do. Managed to get to the shopping centre in the morning and purchased some cooling gel plasters for the offending knee, plus a kind of tubular support bandage thing, all of which is helping slightly.
Started the mammoth task of cleaning the silver this morning - some of it cleans up quite well using the stuff you leave it in for a few minutes then wash. Other things have failed using this method. I shall use silver dip, and if that fails, try and find some old fashioned silver polish which I hate using. Oh well, serves me right for buying silver. Remind me not to get any more.
Things are appalling on the art front so have decided to give it a rest for a few days. During this time I have managed to become obsessed with cheap pressed fifties glass, particularly green uranium glass. So far I have purchased a couple of jug and tumblers, i.e. lemonade sets, one in green and one in a very pale blue. Also a fruit salad set in a darker green, with one large bowl and six small ones, which will be fine for any cold pudding. Oh, and a couple of salts. Not sure if they are all uranium, so will have to purchase a UV torch to test them.
Kind of finished the silver which is far from perfect, but discovered that Brasso works on things which other silver polishes fail to clean.
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