Tick tock, tick tock

God, I’m exhausted. Just a short one really, partly to prove to myself that I am actually not dead or asleep.

Day-to-day things have generally been taking over, not leaving as much time as I would like for things of a more creative and/or decorative nature. Well that and my addiction to the new series of Numb3rs, which takes up a hefty old chunk of time (oops, my bad) but I have recently painted most of the bathroom, which I have some photos of to share. I say most of as I have neglected to do the ceiling, and the tongue and groove as I have a new light being put in this week, so I figured it would be easier to do post-installation of the light. OK, you caught me. I’m lazy. Hold my hands up, you caught me fair and square. But here are some photos of the work so far (and if you ignore the edging and the splodge of plaster on the roof, it looks pretty good) … I’ll be putting some more pictures up in there soon.

Work on the roof starts tomorrow. I forget if I’ve mentioned this before but this work would be on account of the fact that my surveyor is a lazy, half assed bum who appears to be more than happy to take my money off me but not do his job properly. He could, by all accounts, climb up a ladder and lift up a tile or two at the back of the house to make sure that the roof was in decent repair (he got it wrong but at least he managed to get up the ladder) but apparently he was utterly unable to do the same at the front of the house. Because putting a ladder against the house and climbing it is such a difficult thing to do.On a more positive front, it does at least mean that I get to see my favourite builders, Martin and Sue, again for a few days, and while I’m on the subject – Sue is now a proud Grandmama. Congratulations!

So, for the time being, there’s a bathroom ceiling to paint, various other rooms to paint, a headboard to put up, skirting and edging to do, external windows to paint plus the curtains which I just never seem to have time for. Tick tock, tick tock…