Frog hops to it

After last week's disappointment, masking-tape-wise, I bit the bullet yesterday and went into repair mode, sticking short lengths of Frog Tape on the newly-painted walls under the damaged sections of ceiling, applying daubs of white emulsion, and pulling the tape off immediately to avoid it becoming too well stuck.

A single circumnavigation of the kitchen proved 100% successful this time, and there's now a crisp even line between walls and ceiling with no gaps or tears. Phew. At one point I had visions of getting into a kind of painting loop. Masking the ceiling and painting the walls and then masking the walls and painting the ceiling and then repeat from #1. It didn't happen, I'm relieved to say.

Now we have to settle in for a long wait before the new floor is fitted. Everything was going according to plan until this week. The floor fitter became nervous that the kitchen fitter hadn't confirmed his dates, and so pushed us back a week to avoid having nothing booked in next week. When the kitchen fitter did eventually come up with a date (w/c Sep 12) this strategy was proved right, as this was a week later than we were expecting. Anyway a deathly hush of no progress has now fallen on the kitchen until a week Monday.