Day 297-8. Painters; plumber

Friday: a bit more decorating upstairs. Bathroom ceiling I think.

Monday: Pete the plumber in early. This one was ever so slightly baffling, as it wasn't clear that he knew what he was doing here. As it turned out there was (a) a slight leak around the toilet pan to fix and (b) the pipes to the will-be-study radiator to move into the corner in the kitchen. Was he doing owt else? Hard to know...

Mr Carpet Man (Mick Rule) came today (bang on his time :-) and was very nice and saved us from the terror of far too many choices in the Carpet Mill or whatever. So we're having "neutral" in the spare bedroom and landing and bathrooms (M always preferred carpet; I wanted boards but it seems sensible to get something down, so M wins); red in E's room. All at 50 weight, whatever that is.

Talk to Ian (later) who has talked to Bob who agrees things are going too slow. Big items to get done: get the hardboard down on the floors upstairs this week so we can carpet next week; guttering; windows upstairs (again, ideally, to be done *before* the carpets go down).