And on the house front!

We have most of the prep work done on the house now.  I sanded down the woodwork in the living room at the weekend, and both me and Becky have done some painting.  The airing cupboard, under stairs cupboard and back porch are now brilliant white, making them a lot brighter than they were.  None of which were high priority jobs but much needed relief after all the wallpaper removal. 

We're close to appointing an electrician and have taken the decision to have the whole house rewired. I think this is wise on two fronts, firstly the house still has its original wiring and the house is as old as me  so that's an no brainer really. Secondly if we leave it a year down the line (which was an idea) we're causing ourselves more decorating work on top of what we will have just done.  Which will be disruptive for Becky and Rob if they stay there longer term.  If they decide they want to move on in a year or two and we decide to rent it out then by law we need a Part P Certificate and we might as well get that now rather than wait when we don't know what the situation will be in a couple of years time.  Financially we need to bite the bullet and just get it done.

We've also been talking to a guy about the rendering at the front of the house which has a gaping hole in it.  His unofficial quote is a lot less than we expected it to be but we will see what he comes back with when he's actually looked at the pictures we sent.

So there isn't too much that we can be doing at the moment until the re-wiring is done, hopefully that will be done and dusted in the next couple of weeks. Meanwhile we get a wee bit of time off from renovation work before we head into full scale decorating mode.  Which I'm really looking forward to. Seeing the house transformed into something livable will be really rewarding.

As an aside but kind of related, I've been thinking a lot about coincidences and synchronicity the past month or so.  On the day that we picked up the keys for the house, I bumped into my old landlady and friend Janet who I hadn't seen for  couple of years.  Turns out they had done exactly the same as us, bought a house to decorate and for their son in Leeds to rent, and picked their keys up the day before.  I need to start a book of these events.  Timing really is a strange and wonderful thing.