Shelf-ish behaviour

Would you believe that this room used to be a bedroom? It's one of the three at the top of the main stair that we planned to turn into a double ensuite and a family ensuite. This room was going to be the ensuite of the double.



And the fact that it isn't is the main consequence of the structural work we did during the summer. While we're waiting to see if we will get any money from the structural engineers who failed to spot the very obvious fault we've put some shelving in the room. We spent yesterday assembling it.



This cactus is older than me. It was brought down to the Spread two years ago and treated with wanton cruelty. It got covered in plaster dust when the old kitchen ceiling was removed and I discovered it a couple of weeks ago lying on the floor in one of the unused bedrooms covered in old curtains. It had been there for a month.
And it's about to flower. Given that it's a Christmas flowering cactus that seems like a reasonable thing for it to do, but it would be just as understandable if it turned brown and died.