Breathe easy

...and breathe a sigh of relief too. The painting is finished!

The brasses are back on all the windows, the telephone point box is fitted, all the lights are screwed back up to the ceiling, the woodburning stove has been cleaned off and the floors are all swept. I even hoisted the pressure washer upstairs and hosed down the conservatory roof.

The only jobs remaining are those that can be done after the carpet is fitted and I'll be booking that tomorrow. Then maybe, finally, after all these months, we can take the computers off the dining room table and get back to being civilised!

Today also marks the end (almost) of our cat-sitting for some friends down the road. They've been in Portugal for two weeks and we've been over there twice a day to feed their mog Magic and give her her thyroid pills. She's a sweet little thing and always greets us at the door with a trill and a purr. I'd hate to have to give pills to someone else's cat if they weren't as placid as Magic, but she really is as good as gold.