I'm
shattered.
But we have a blissfully happy bratling positively luxuriating in his
'new' room. I'm very happy with the way it's all come together - it looks gorgeous - and Kai is delighted with his 'den' under the bed. (I'll take a couple more photos in daylight, the colours look a little different, because Kai wanted a blue 'craft' bulb to go with that amazing crinkly-shimmer lampshade...) I haven't painted the ceiling: there are literally hundreds of 'glow-in-the-dark' stars there and taking them off/replacing them was just too much work. It looks fine as it is, a very pale grey that reflects the pale blue of the walls.
The bed took surprisingly little time to assemble, and is incredibly solidly made: sturdy pine, massive brass screws and bolts, and about 14 slats to hold the mattress. We tried to make it wobble and couldn't. Very pleased with the quality! Kai has been an enormous help right the way through the process, clearing and tidying, fetching and carrying, painting half the long wall for me, getting rid of a load of things, and today starting off the screws and tightening them while Ken and I held the bed sections in place (fiddly but it worked). He's been fantastic!
You can't see the real effect of the voile curtains in that top right photo here, but they're stunning. When the sun shines through them they're the most fiery salmon red, like a magnificent sunset: otherwise they're ice-blue with a haze of purple. (The fabric also had the slightly disconcerting effect of seeming to 'bleed' where the needle pierced it - was only the way the light hit the purple strands but it was decidedly offputting!)
We still have the finishing touches to do - there's a whole load of things to go on the walls etc - but he's sleeping there tonight (yay, we get our bedroom to ourselves again!) and I can see him wanting to spend quite some time there over the next few days. One thing we're going to do, when I start redecorating our bedroom, is to give him our little Amstrad mini-system. It's fairly old now but still works well, and his current portable radio/tape/cd player is distinctly ropey.
And Kai did another job (and got 'paid'!) today: an older friend of ours who's recently had problems with her back wanted her yard and the side of the house swept... Kai hadn't realised it would be such hard work, but he did a very good job!
Last week Rosa did one of her now-rare walks up the front of the tank, and I managed to grab Kai's digicam and get these two photos before she went back to the rear wall again. To give you some idea of scale, from the bottom of the tank to the bottom edge of the blue lid is ten inches (just over 25 centimetres). Big spid, Rosa...
And last night I wrote and emailed two reviews... Yes,
two, and a day and half early! Ye gods, it's the end of the world as we know it...
Wendy's coming up for the day tomorrow! I'll be able to sit down. (I've spent most of the last five days on my feet and my legs and back are aching horribly. And as for my poor hands...) Looking forward to it - it'll be great to chat!
The site I was laughing about yesterday did seem to be having intermittent server problems. For anyone who couldn't get to the pic, the main site index is
here. It's very, very funny. Glad you liked it, Sue and Carol! (Now I must go find the daleks cartoon...)
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Joules *Dances with Haddock* Taylor
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