Ok, so it’s been two months since I last wrote anything. Does that mean I’ve been busy? Probably not.
[thumb:42:l] I have got up to a few things. We went to Lille via Eurostar thanks to Andrea’s parents. The main image I have of Lille however is not quite typical as you can see. A little odd I think you’ll agree.[thumb:50:r] In fact going to Lille was further confused by turning up at the end of a Bollywood festival whilst all the Christmas fairs and big wheels etc. were still up and running. It’s a nice city though.
Most of my time has involved decorating the living room, very slowly. As you may know my living room has been painted a sickly blue colour. Not only is this not a very nice colour it doesn’t help reflect the light in what is a very dark room. This being the case I’ve vowed to not have the walls the same colour for the anniversary of us buying the house (I’ve got ’till May so I should make it 
). Whist I’m at it we’ve had the ceiling re-skimmed (to get rid of the horrible artex pattern), got rid of the gas fire (we’ve bought a cast iron solid-fuel fire to install but I’ve got to read the building regs before I do that), and the borrowed light (a window between the kitchen and the lounge to let more light in) have been replaced with glass blocks. You may notice that despite my couple of weeks of effort only one of those is in the past tense. I got distracted having to make a stand for a mannequin for Andrea’s shop (but at least it was an excuse to buy a router).
I’ve also been doing more theatre stuff. I helped out with a production of ‘Bent‘ (although actually to be fair I was probably a little useless for that one. I’m going to watch HumDrum’s production of Habeas Corpus.
The reason I’m writing this random selection of snippets of the past few months is that I’m currently officially ’sick’ as I’ve just had all four wisdom teeth removed. Thankfully I was asleep for the whole thing and oddly it doesn’t hurt that much. When you mention it to anyone beforehand it generally involves a sharp intake of breath and the impression that you will be writhing round in agony with a face like the Elephant man for at least a week. The reality is some what less in my case. I even got a few things done that have been piling up for a while. And I’ve got all my food cooked for me (that would be a bonus if it didn’t hurt to eat)
So what am I doing in the near future? Well I’m off to Cornwall for a week at the end of March (thanks to Andrea’s parents – again). Things are looking to be quite busy at work and at some point I might finish the living room.
