Darrell has been wittering on for ages now that, after six years, some parts of The Towers are looking a little tired and lacklustre, and not quite as “pristine” as it has done………..
….. so, knowing what Darrell is like when he has a décor bee in his bonnet, I told him that if he could find someone to do it and he did all the shifting etc. then why not, we should go for it. We could have the lounge done ready “for Christmas” and if it all went well, we could perhaps think about freshening up the rest of The Towers in the New Year.
Well, after that Laurence Darrell was like a dog with two tails and a bone, because unbeknownst to me our lovely neighbour across the hall, Kata, had already put him in touch with a very reputable, gentleman decorator by the name of Clive, so everything was all booked within minutes of me saying go ahead ……. spooky!
Then Nigel was roped in to help move everything out of the lounge/kitchen into the bathroom and every other free corner of The Towers on the promise of a proper sticky toffee pudding and custard for laters!
I then thought it very strange that Darrell didn’t demand endless hours in which to pore over mountains paint charts, until he explained that he was still perfectly happy with his original choice of colours ………. and then went on to confess that our beloved Kata had been secreting 15 litres of Dulux natural calico, plus white gloss and matt for the ceiling under her bed for several weeks now!
I think …… I may have been robustly stitched up like a kipper, it was already a fait accompli before I’d even said yes! What on earth are they ALL like?
2 comments:
They had been plotting and scheming behind your back. Including colour scheming.
I hope all goes well.
Oh how lovely - all freshened up for Father Christmas - Jingle all the Way! JantheFan x p.s. I could do with a Clive in the New Year, our hall & living room need a spruce up. Give me Clives marks out of ten when he's done with his paintbrush we might need him up here!
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