Picture our amazement

Only one more this evening, I promise…that’s the trouble with writing about food, you always think you can fit another one in…in this case, one more blog post for the night.

One reason for blog absence in the last few months has been because of doing more stuff to our flat: this time, taking out the lovely fake fireplace in our bedroom (70s brickwork, anyone?), getting the wall replastered, plus new paint and carpet.

A variant on the kind of things we had done last year, but with the added satisfaction of gaining a tool called a gorilla, for levering under bricks (and in the process worrying a few people who were trying to work out what on earth we were talking about on Facebook).

With the best of intentions, building projects don’t always finish when you intend…and some don’t quite get finished.  But yesterday, we got some pictures back up on the walls, and had a sense of things being nearly done.

Sometimes the list of DIY tasks sits unaltered for months, looking back at me reproachfully when I check in my useful notebook.  But it’s great not just to tick them off the list – but enjoy the benefit of them as well.

One of the big gains, although not so much in feet and inches (or metric, for that matter), is some extra space in our bedroom where the fireplace and corner unit used to be.  Now we can fit an armchair in, and start using the room for being somewhere quiet during the daytime or evening – in fact, I am writing from there.

Sofas are quite fun for blogging from, but for now, armchairs are even better – particularly when I get a nice view of the sky when getting home from work early enough.

New rooms for old.