Owing to elder daughter falling off her perch in London, I have been somewhat distracted of late. She really was run over by a van - her right elbow anyway - last Friday whilst riding her bike through Camden. Thus a long operation to sort and and clean up the mashed arm and a stay on the NHS in University College Hospital discovering the joys of morphine. Anyway she's home now and being looked after by family and friends. On Monday the proper cast goes on once the swelling reduces. It'll probably be a while before she's flying on her laptop or on her bike.

Anyway, the painting schedule has been put back a bit. But R is doing wonderful woodwork-y things with newel posts and staircases and kitchen units. We now have an oven! - another IKEA Bargain Corner find, along with two sinks, two sets of taps and a whole load of kitchen doors. So we do move along.