Monday 18th Mar

You’ll be pleased to hear I gave the DIY a body swerve today. I know this week is the final push, at least for this project, but why do today what I can put off until tomorrow? Or even the day after? Not a philosophy that built an empire maybe, but thinking about it, it could be one that lost an empire.

Mrs P and I were out shopping for a 3 piece suite (again) this morning, and as luck would have it we’d discovered a local shop/warehouse that stocks cancelled/returned orders from high street brands, at significant discounts. The benefits of this are twofold; firstly, the significant discount, and secondly, they are in stock and available for immediate delivery. Having started looking at leather, we’d turned to fabric and now we were back to leather. As luck would have it they had something suitable in stock and a deal was struck. It’s being delivered next Tuesday, and not in the 12 weeks we were originally anticipating, which means I now have a real D-Day for the decorating. Also this means we now have to find a carpet, and when we sneaked in to take a look today I found myself confused once more over an enormous variety of choice, and how exactly do we match something to the wallpaper, curtains and the furniture. Sounds like a job for Mrs P.

Yours making progress slowly

Jay