Stand by to repel boarders

We're closed. Well, the hotel is - until about four weeks on Friday. We've spent the morning clearing rooms 2 - 4. Some of the furniture was unceremonially dumped on the skip, the rest was put into room 5 for the time being. New furniture will arrive before the renovation work finishes, but being of a pessimistic nature we're assuming that something will go wrong.
But so far so good. Everyone's turned up - carpet fitters to remove carpets, electricians, plumbers, painters, joiners. D***** is here tomorrow to check that everything is happening as planned.

There is a green street lamp in the alcove on the stairs to the bedrooms. Why it's there is a mystery. Why it's still there after two years was even more of a mystery. It seems that L*** thought I liked it, while I thought she liked it. Today we realised that we both think it's horrible. So it's in the skip too:-)