I am sitting at my PC grabbing 210 minute’s rest whilst Mary starts work on painting Harry’s bedroom ceiling. I have found it’s best to let Mary wield the long roller as what seems to be a precision instrument in her hands turns into an indiscriminate paint sprinkler in mine.

This morning we have also removed the hideous carpets (!) from the bathroom, ready to be replaced with laminate flooring once the boards have aclimatised (like high altitude runners… they’ll get tired too quickly if we force them into action too soon).

A trip to the tip has dispensed with the old carpets and about 2% of the other stuff that needs removing from the house, but that at least allows us to move around the place by squeezing between things rather than going over them. I think that’s progress…

As works in progress go, it’s still very much in its infancy. Watch out for the obligatory during and after pictures. We forgot to do the before ones )

Oh, did I mention I’m on HOLIDAY this week?