Lady Chatterley’s Liver

Yes, I’ve finished another room! And it’s the important corner room that is the centre of the West Wing. It’s only taken... wait for it... three months, thanks to the amount of damage in the room, and the state of the walls, that resembled tissue paper on a wet day. I’ve only got it done by burning the midnight oil at both ends.

This has of course produced a fair amount of chatter from the ladies, and the obligatory trip for curtains. Well, at least the Edwardian brushed silver curtain poles (which of course have to be specially ordered; as I’ve discovered in Australia, if you don’t like the white plastic version you get an odd look and people ask for a lot more cash) as opposed to the curtains. I’ll wait for Aldi to have their once a year curtain sale for those, and get some decent German quality.

So I can move onto the next room – the ‘new’ dining room - I’ve moved all the dining room furniture into this room, including making a monumental effort to move the drinks cabinet four feet to the left, which I’m pleased to report has been successful. Talking of which, it is a Saturday night...