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Date: 05 January 2006 16:05:22
I have started the new year with a cold and a big zit. Hooray. Good news though is that the time with my parents was very good - we didn't get ratty with each other, in fact we got on really well, and my bedroom is now looking like a bedroom (ie it has a proper bed in it, and the floor has been reclaimed). I've so far only painted the wall behind the wardrobe, taking advantage of the fact that the wardrobe (which is humungous, and even empty took all three of us to move back with Great Difficulty) was already in the middle of the room so I could actually reach the wall. I'll finish the rest of the room over the weekend. Dad and I turned into a pretty good team when it came to the wallpapering, although we ended up with him doing all the hanging - he did suggest I do it, and was talking me through it, but hadn't reckoned on my ladder phobia which, when coupled with not having the foggiest what I was doing, meant that by the time I was in a fit state to put the paper to the wall the paste had dried and it just fell on top of me instead. I'm sure I could have done it if the walls weren't so high (this being a tenement flat the walls are about 10ft instead of the more usual 8-ish ft). Of course I could.
I haven't started putting pictures up yet, I think that may be a project for later today. Now that the hall is a lovely yellow, I have the perfect print from Madrid which will go really well. I didn't want to put it up while the parents were there though, as it is of nekkid people and although they're not particularly prudish or anything it's not quite parents' material (not my parents anyway). It's "Desnudos en la Playa" by Togores which I think is lovely (go to the Togores pictures about half way down, and it's the fourth one - a man and a woman on the beach) (the original, in my new favourite-ever gallery, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, is stunning). Once I've found a frame I shall put it up, though I may have to remember to replace it with an inocuous landscape or something when I have the "clergy visitation" from the new church (I don't want to give the poor clergy a turn!).