Why workmen are an extra set of hands and not an extra brain

The joiners' foreman has, ever so gently pointed out to me the dangers of talking to his men. It seems that they take everything rather literally, so when I mentioned as a point of interest that we were eventually getting new doors for the bedrooms, they took it as an instruction to remove the door of bedroom 5 and throw it away.

Ho Hum

There's still some painting to be done, mainly in the front hall, but on the whole it's looking pretty good.


We were going to paint the mouldings on the lower panels in a darker colour, but I think they look pretty good in white. L is going to continue painting today while I swan off to the traditional beer festival in Edinburgh. It's tough work, but someone has to do it:-)