Home again

We had a very good journey home on Sunday.  It's certainly easier travelling by road in January provided it doesn't snow.  It took just ov er 51/2 hours including two stops.  (I suppose I shouldn't admit that, as I am sure it signifies an unacceptable average speed!)  Joe cried after we left - which was gratifying. Realisation suddenly hit him. James couldn't understand why, if we had gone 'home', we weren't there!

Dave didn't have any work booked in for Monday, so we measured rooms, furniture, curtains and bought some green paint.  We are going to get our annexe bedroom ready first, replacing the magnolia with a pale olivey green which should go well with our curtains.  Then we'll decide if we need to paint the doors; there are four including the bathroom and two wardrobes, so rather a lot of white gloss.  I feel a wall art session coming on.  I thought we might have wallpaper on the wall behind the bed, but when I started looking at them on the internet I realised that the repetition of pattern makes me feel quite panicky and claustrophobic.  Also the patterns I was looking at were £40 - £70 a roll!  When did that happen?  There are some gorgeous stencils around, so I might splash out on that, but it would have to be an adaptable one, so we finish up with a one-off mural.  I think I'll wait until the walls are painted and the curtains hung.

We need to extend our upstairs shower for Dom.  Standing in a 30" tray with a solid pivot door, poor Dom can't lift his elbows to wash his hair!  The shower tray exactly fits the space where the bathroom floor goes over the stair well, so we have to build an extra piece of wall in the bathroom to extend out level with the window, and install a rectangular tray.  Jewson's do one which should just fit, so we should be able to get that done before April.

I am well.  We had a couple of panicky days in Devon when I had some pain and had to get things moving again.  (It's the change in the water, as they say).  Apart from that, things are normal, and I feel a bit of a fraud to tell the truth.  I haven't had the appointment for my scan yet, but expect it will be in a couple of weeks, which is two months after the last one.  Then I guess reality will set in again.