Ah, so that's the colour of our carpet

We went to town on the lounge room today ... I started on the boxes before lunch and had made appreciable progress before we were summoned to the Fat Bastard's assistance with the shopping. After getting back home and not having lunch we got stuck in again ... by the time we called a halt at around 16:30 it was clear the beef rib would not be thawed in time to cook tonight so we went back to work and almost cleared everything.

Two black sacks of stuff were hauled out for the garbage men and another two canvas sacks (plus the rowing machine which he used once) were set to one side to be taken down to the charity shop. I'm also hoping we can off load oh, about 66% of the books in the house and about the same proportion of the clothes but I'm not confident.

The upshot of all this work is, that with some further minor realignment of the room we should be able to put the Christmas tree and lights up tomorrow evening...

Yipee!

And if we can work a similar miracle on the dining room we might, just might be able to sit down for dinner.

In the mean time the miserable fucker is so exhausted from having done a bit of work around the house that he's been in bed since around 21:00 and I'm on tenterhooks lest he come down stairs and ruin what remains of my evening.