Tardis

The Gorse Fox 's knee has not yet stabilised and is still fairly swollen. He decided that, though no pain is involved, he would give football a miss. It's probably sensible and was certainly useful as we were able to get on with decorating the Tardis Sewing room.

Now the Gorse Fox should explain that the Silver Vixen is an ace at squirrelling things away. This is great until you need to move things because the room is to be decorated and reconfigured.

We spent the morning extracting all that had been stored in various dimension of the space-time continuum. Slowly bedroom 2 filled; then the landing; then bedroom 1; then the family bathroom.

The photo on the left is a small portion of the stuff that found its way into bedroom 1. The Gorse Fox suspects that the Silver Vixen is planning a very long life as he estimates that at a rate of one project a day, she has enough material and patterns for a further 237 years. Jasper had just given up and gone to hide downstairs.

Eventually the room was as empty as it was going to get. (There was still enough to fill a large removal truck).  The big IKEA unit was shifted to the new position. This is when it became clear that supplied brackets were not going to work because of the depth of the skirting boards. The point is that with Ellie sleeping in there, we have to be sure that if she should try to clamber up the unit, it couldn't topple. The Gorse Fox cut some wooden fillers and fixed them to the back of the unit and then fixed through them into the wall. That unit isn't going anywhere!

The Gorse Fox started with the filler to caulk the various settlement cracks, then sanded down the joinery. Once cleaned up, the areas were masked and painted. This didn't take too long and it seemed like a good time to stop for lunch.

After lunch the Gorse Fox headed back to paint the last two walls that would receive the background colour. All done. Only the feature wall to finish. Much of the chaos has been shipped back into various backwaters of the universe, or black holes. Slowly carpet is appearing in odd places and there is a possibility that our bed may make an appearance again before bedtime.