Pulling ourselves together.
Feb. 27th, 2011 10:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shewhomustWe have rehung the bedroom curtains and transferred back to our own bed in time to vacate the spare bed for D. to sleep in. (Other beds are also available, but having a spare bedroom for a guest is preferable, and achieving this gave me a pleasant illusion of being in control.)
Hanging the curtains was not as simple as that sounds: oh, well, actually hanging the curtains was a doddle, but fixing the new curtain rail was hard work and took both of us the best part of a day, during which I mentally composed a rant about DIY, and how the whole DIY industry is geared to selling things cheap rather than making them easy to use (because once you've bought curtain rail which claims to be suitable for bay windows they don't care how much you have to struggle with it).
Because we had stripped the bed and moved our sleeping arrangements elsewhere, we spent a certain amount of time looking at the mattress and thinking we ought to replace it (actually, the mattress is fine, as far as we can tell, but the covering is worn through, and it doesn't seem to be possible to get a mattress re-covered). We spent some time lying on beds in the department stores of Newcastle, and had identified our choice of mattress (it was, naturally, the most expensive one) but now we are sleeping in our own bed again, we are so comfortable that we probably won't bother, not until things get a lot worse.
Which means we might as well replace the storage drawers under the bed, having first vacuumed them to remove the extraordinary accumulation of dust (much of which is probably escaped from the mattress). Oh, but wait, some of them have been temporarily filled with books: so first I need to make up my mind about the bedroom bookcases...
Well, maybe I'll think about that this morning, while I'm in the gardenhacking back the triffids filling a bag with garden waste to go to the tip.
Hanging the curtains was not as simple as that sounds: oh, well, actually hanging the curtains was a doddle, but fixing the new curtain rail was hard work and took both of us the best part of a day, during which I mentally composed a rant about DIY, and how the whole DIY industry is geared to selling things cheap rather than making them easy to use (because once you've bought curtain rail which claims to be suitable for bay windows they don't care how much you have to struggle with it).
Because we had stripped the bed and moved our sleeping arrangements elsewhere, we spent a certain amount of time looking at the mattress and thinking we ought to replace it (actually, the mattress is fine, as far as we can tell, but the covering is worn through, and it doesn't seem to be possible to get a mattress re-covered). We spent some time lying on beds in the department stores of Newcastle, and had identified our choice of mattress (it was, naturally, the most expensive one) but now we are sleeping in our own bed again, we are so comfortable that we probably won't bother, not until things get a lot worse.
Which means we might as well replace the storage drawers under the bed, having first vacuumed them to remove the extraordinary accumulation of dust (much of which is probably escaped from the mattress). Oh, but wait, some of them have been temporarily filled with books: so first I need to make up my mind about the bedroom bookcases...
Well, maybe I'll think about that this morning, while I'm in the garden
