Thanks for that @Zoe7 ..... it sounds lovely .... as always .... 🤗💕
I am moving this conversation to the art thread to keep it in context with the thread topic ... but maybe you would like us to paint one of the beach images I am about to post on F&A thread .... ?
Here's the thing though, going back to the painting issue .... D3 and I have been painting in a space in the garage, and WH is going to be asking us to pack it away by the end of the week guaranteed.
He wants to cook a lamb on the spit for Easter, which is really traditional and something they always did in the back yard when he was a kid. We've got an indoor / outdoor kitchen on the side of the house, and he wanted to npvook in there, but it makes a helluva mess and I kicked up about it. I don't have the energy for that sort of clean-up .... that energy belongs with my competition painting.
So .. he has borrowed an enclosed spit from a friend. That will have to go into the back yard. While he can access the back yard from the side of the house, he will want to access it through the garage and all the painting gear is in the way.
When we moved into the house we set up a studio for me up a ladder in the roof-space of the garage, and that's where he wants me to use, but storage of a whole heap of other stuff has ended up in that space as well .... anything that was in his way in the house he had the hissy gardener throw put up into that space, and I feel so claustrophobic in there now, I don't want to work there, and I don't want to be forced to work there ....
We have a small verandah near our bedroom, and for the competition painting I did last year, Iset up there, painting outdoors and under shelter. That has become my new painting space, but it's not really big enough to squeeze everything in if D3 wants to paint too .... and I am hoping to engage S2 again, and D2 paints as well, given the chance.
I wanted to use D1's old room, but WH won't hear of it, wanting to keep it as a spare bedroom, even though we have S1's old room for that, which is doubling as a family office for the kids and me .... except it's junked up as well, and a much tighter space. I have heard him mention my dad staying over in D1's old room, and his mum .... who lives 10mins away in her own house .... and I'm guessing his thoughts are for when she is too old to live on her own that she move in with us.
That's a whole other story !
At the moment I am trying to focus on completing the painting of the tree from down south, and then get onto this verandah and start on the competition painting in oils. Send me the images for us to paint together though .... that might help me get into the other paintings so I can get to "our" image as a part of the line-up ....
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I can see that there is no solution with this one that will benefit you and the kids - so very hard to navigate your way around and have a suitable space for yourself. I really do feel for you! 
