What a result!

[Ally]

It'll be done evenings and weekends so will take ages.....

We've got to get a new bedroom suite and bed for our room, we're really struggling for storage, and John reckons it'll take us a day if we work together on the flatpacks

Hell would freeze over before I worked with Don on flatpack furniture - my ears would bleed!

[JoM]

I think I'll be making a lot of tea Ally

[Kaz]

Oh I'm with Ally, I keep well out of the way when Mick is doing anything DIYish

I make tea too, and serve it up with a smile and zipped lip

[JoM]

I'm thinking that my iPod might come in useful too. At full blast!

[debih]

All change again.

I made an executive decision yesterday and the major overhaul is not happenng. It just isn't feasible. He says he'll get it done in a couple of months but during that time she'll still need to be sleeping in it. If she moves in with L there will be a) nowhere to put the furniture that woukd need to come out of L's room to fit the extra bed in and b) arguments every night.

And although he says it'll take a couple of months he told me the utility room woukd take a couple of weeks - back in November! It is still half done.

So I went and bought the paint today and we will be clearing as much as possible out if the room tomorrow.

[JoM]

Wise move, the thought of sharing a room for any amount of time! I dread to think what my two would be like. They wanted bunk beds when they were younger, Tom would be around 7 so Joe was around 4, so had to have them in Tom's room and we ended up having to use them as single beds as Tom evicted Joe

John casually mentioned yesterday that he might see if he can book Friday off so that we can refit our bedroom - we haven't even got the furniture yet so this afternoon we have to properly plan out what we need and check the stock levels at Ikea so possibly will have to go and buy it tomorrow night if it's all in stock and get them to deliver it. If we do end up doing it this week then that means I've got to have a good clear out in there this week!

[Kaz]

Oh blimey Jo yes, that's your week taken care of then!

Debih that would have been a nightmare, them sharing - my mum split me and my sis up as soon as she could and turned the tiny box room into a bedroom - which J got as she was the youngest I got the nice big room

[JoM]

I had the box room too, and my sister moved out to live in the nurses home when I was 7 but still came home at weekends for a few years so kept her room. One weekend though when I was 9 or 10 I went to stay with a school friend who'd moved away and when I came home Mom and Julie had swapped the rooms over

I had to live with her horrible bright green carpet for quite a few years though

[Kaz]

Oh horrid carpet was compulsory in the 70s Jo My parents had a horrid swirly orange and black one

[JoM]

We had some swirly orange and blue stuff in the hall when we moved in but I think my parents brought that with them from our previous house as it didn't quite fit - and seeing as we moved there in 1970, that carpet would be a 60s special!

The horrible green carpet in my bedroom was finally replaced in the mid-80s by dark grey with thin red, black and white stripes running through it at intervals - very 80s!! I was about 16 when I finally had the room decorated with new carpet and furniture so had some input and everything was either red, grey, black or white