Painting

Because we are generally crap, I realised that the painting in our flat was Never Going to Finish. So I hired the cousin of a friend who is temporarily out of work to come and paint. Hoorah! And it looks great. He did the final coats in the bedroom (it needed TWO MORE. That means it needed FIVE COATS OF PAINT to cover up the faux Roman stucco effect lovely Nige had left us), painted the skirting boards and sanded/painted the door frames. Yay! Lovin' it.

Two weeks until the floor man comes.

Freecycle

I can't tell you how much I love my local Freecycle group. I just got rid of all of the cardboard stuffing from the shower box. This means that I can fold the box into a size that the recycling team will actually agree to collect! Hooray. Plus the people are generally lovely and quite funny and have all sorts of interesting reasons for needing my miscellaneous crap. Just fantastic.