Top-down approach

The painter was back in action today, starting a couple of days' finishing-off work. Most of what he did was in the recently replastered back bedroom:


But he's also put the first coat of gloss on some of the doors, and has painted the frames of our kitchen rooflights:


This evening I got to wheel my bike down the side passage and into the shed for the first time since the fencing went up way back in the spring: one of those precious bits of normality we occasionally get these days.

However, there was no sign at all of the plumber today -- neither by phone nor in person -- so full normality still seems a long way off.