Jon got quite animated when I said I thought I would blog about how well he is doing in the bedroom.
No, Jon. This is about your decorating prowess.
The bedroom carpet, which was here when we bought the house, has obviously been down for years. We didn't do anything while we weren't living here but last summer we removed it. It weighed a ton as it seems to have been laid on scree, most of which came up with the carpet. Jon has been scraping up the rest of it, diligently clearing out the bits stuck between the floor boards and preparing the floor for a sanding. The other floors upstairs are beautiful chestnut, waxed and warm coloured. We want to make them the same right through.
Jon has finally managed to clean the floor and has now removed the remaining scraps of wallpaper and filled all the holes (cursing at the time about how awful the plastering is). This is all in preparation for decorating the room in a nice warm cream with plum coloured alcoves once the floor is finished.
We are hoping to finish this room before we jet off for our holiday in three weeks time but we're not convinced it will happen.
Thinking about our holiday has inspired me to cook more Eastern cuisine. On Saturday we had a very nice Malay seafood menu and today is Vietnamese. The kitchen is full of aromas of lemongrass, ginger and nam pla (fish sauce). Makes a change from garlic and shallots, our usual French flavours. I love pouring over our collection of cookery books, which is quite large, and go through phases of changing cookery styles, this time last year I was particularly concentrating on Italian flavours, French obviously features a lot and we also cook quite a lot of Indian food. I really mustn't overdo the Eastern or by the time we get to Hong Kong we'll be fed up with it and start looking for mostly western flavours and that would be a great shame.
We've had a few more guide books delivered, to add to the collection - it's like a little walk down memory lane seeing which restaurants we have been to before are no longer listed - either they are closed or they just aren't up to the same standards. Likewise to see new museums opened up and - shock, horror - apparently they have moved the famous Star Ferry to another pier. They can't change the views from the ferry though!
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