With the new baby approaching at an alarming rate, We’ve started to make some changes around the house, the biggest of which is a new bedroom for Daisy.

We want to make the change a bit before the baby is born, so that Daisy doesn’t associate getting chucked out of her room with it, So last weekend we took our other small room, and in a total departure from the norm for us, stripped it, prepared it, glossed it (with two coats of undercoat and one gloss!) and then wallpapered it, all in just four days! of-course other things have taken up the rest of the week (like work, and a very awake child at night) so it’s not finished, but Daisy has chosen the paint and it’s sitting there waiting.

When it’s finished Daisy is going to have a ‘big’ bed, some new furniture we think and one very bright orange wall.

Being two and a half, and very inquisitive, she does of-course know what’s going on, and she spent most of the weekend asking me if had finished her room yet, only to be told that I had lots more to do.

OK, I’m going to have to work hard to keep this positive, but I’ve gone a bit bonkers today. Maybe it’s the combined effect of decorating, having the windows done, having a new carpet laid, rearranging the office, and having two calls to Microsoft Support all causing me grief, or maybe it’s because I had my hair cut last week.

Having my hair cut does occasionally send me loop-the-loop, and I can often be seen stroking my very short hair repeatedly while rocking slowly forwards and backwards. This time however it’s more likely all the things going on at once, the week before Christmas.

No one really to blame but ourselves, but it’s lots of work on the house and stupid calls to Microsoft at work, meaning that my days have been very long over the last few weeks, still staying positive, the windows are now finished¹, the room is decorated², and at least one of my support calls to Microsoft looks like it has a solution³, so it should all be plain sailing from her until the new year!

^{1, Ventrolla have done their stuff, all windows now open, close and are draft free, they just need painting.
2, the room is decorated, it has no furniture, or curtain rails.
3, Microsoft have ‘admitted’ the problem and are going to fix it (sometime next month)}

A little break from the Christmas stories, brought on mainly by my laptop being under large piles of dust sheets while the windows get done.

yesterday we went to B&Q and picked the paint for the windows, after looking for quite a while at the woeful range of black, white or red exterior paints, we twigged that you can get Dulux wethersheild mixed up, just like you can interior paints. So we chose Twilight Cinders, which gives you no indication of the colour. However, the Dulux web site will show you that it’s a purpley aubergine colour (monitor settings may make it look slightly different).

This is the colour of the external wood, we haven’t quite worked out the door, yet, I think the door will be this colour, but what colour the surrounding bit is we need to see.