The big tidy

I ventured to Cecily's room today, hmm... teenagers have a certain special way of tidying up their rooms that only they seem to understand. My plan is to tackle the decorating task this weekend, but first I need to create a safe space in which to apply paste to paper. My dilema is 'do I move her things around, thus invading her privacy or do I leave her stuff where it is and risk getting paste or paint on it'? For now, I will leave the decorating until I have talked to her, then she can decide which option she would like me to do.
Cecily's partner called in to see me at work today, bringing with him a birthday present from the two of them ~ this is great, my birthday has lasted over a week! Anyway, they are absolute sweeties, they have given me the second series of 4400 on DVD. I am delighted and rushed home a little early to start watching it. I set the telephone so that calls come through to me at home and have merrily been working at home for the last couple of hours whilst the telly has been chattering away in the corner of the room.

This evening I am going to sort through a bit of my old magazine collection, I have squillions of them and have decided that it would be nice to spend a little bit of time flicking through back issues, deciding which ones I want to keep and which ones can be recycled (I take them to our local doctor's surgery for patients to look at whilst waiting to see the GP). Obviously I'll keep all the ones that have our items featured in them (storing them in one of these fab file units) and there are a few that I just can't bear to part with (like a Country Homes & Interiors from March 1993), some that have friends' houses featured in them... and so the list goes on. But for all the ones that I just 'have' to keep, there are more that can have a new home and someone else can enjoy them instead.

Ooh, an episode has just ended, that's my cue to put the kettle on and to check to see how Dave (& his cold) is doing, chat soon, Liz