Update, pupdate, decoratingdate......no work date!

For someone who is off from work “sick”, I have been ridiculously industrious since my last blog. As you know - I decided to get a puppy. Little Minstrel (aka Mini, Minnie, Minnie the Moocher and probably quite a few aliases, as yet to be discovered). We should have collected her last Saturday from her breeder in Yeovil. But...... I wasn’t ready. I was still doing the decorating! I have determined that once Minstrel is here, I must have no pressing plans apart from training her to be the BEST behaved pup in the neighbourhood (hmmmm.... we’ll see how that goes) So - our hallway has not been entirely decorated ever....... not ever. Primarily because we decided many moons ago to install beautiful panelling up to dado height everywhere. This looked amazing, but as with MANY (most) joinery projects in this house 😢, Peter had never finished it. In 2002, I decorated one side of the hallway, and it was great, but I refused to do any more because the woodwork was unfinished. After m...