Peter came round yesterday, and he is starting Monday on the parts of the downstairs that don't need sockets. We have made the decision to get the ceiling paper down in the living room and see what hellish horrors happen when the plasterboard has nothing to hold it up (there are signs showing through the paper that things are a little -er- unstable up there). He's then going to skim the ceilings and make them good so that they match in with the dining room's plain plastered top. He estimated about 15 rolls of paper for the living and dining rooms (maybe it'll take one or two less), and I am now on a hunt for suitable paintable paper in that quantity. Can't find one I like yet, although I'm going to head out shortly to a big DIY warehouse.

This morning, locally, I have got new paper for the study, and paint for all rooms except the hall and stairway, and the little room upstairs. We are looking at about 4 weeks' work we think, and then I just need to sort the garden (which hopefully I can get on with as soon as this awful Winter decides to depart.

So it's back to chaos again next week!

Andrea