Real reveals

On painting

Here’s a hint. If you are going to paint a great big tall set of shelves, don’t do it in an attic room. Let my four head-bumpings, umpteen sweary outbreaks and incident with a sock in the paint lid be a lesson to us all. The last, admittedly, being unrelated to height issues. So anyway, […]

mantlepiece decoration

About Twelfth Night

The cards are down, the tree is down, and the holes in the decor are brought into sharp focus. Where the tree used to be is now this: A TV the size of a postage stamp and lots of wires. And binning the cards (and no, further to My Friend’s recent question, none of them […]

outsider art

Office Christmas party

Last night was the very exclusive My Friend’s House Christmas party. One of us was half an hour late. Only one of us had bothered washing our hair. One of us suggested the other become a therapist. Both of us were very hungover. And we exchanged Secret Santa gifts. Do you want to see? First […]

Ikea stripy rug

More from the floor

Ok, yeah, so I went to Ikea to get a rug. No, no it was fine. Really. That thing in the warehouse bit where I got likened to Jesus dragging his cross? Quickly forgotten once the rug was in the car. It was all fine. My only question now is, have I bought something a […]