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I am high as a Kite on gloss paint (excuse the pun)

25 August 2018

9:00 AM

25 August 2018

9:00 AM

After I had been glossing the woodwork for a few days, I started to feel light-headed. It hadn’t occurred to me that the paint was solvent-based, of course. Not until I caught sight of the writing on the tin one evening while painting a bedroom doorframe did it make sense.

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