Just barely back, not up to speed

[ailbhe]

We got back on Saturday - Immodium is useful for long bus trips and flying but utterly utterly vile in its effects even though the effects are why I take it - and spent Sunday buying and beginning to lay underlay and laminate flooring in the front room. We're going to relay today because Plan A, which involved minimal furniture moving, was made by me when exhausted and approved and endorsed by Rob before he read the how-to-lay-laminate instructions. Nonetheless, we made great progress and expect to finish it fairly promptly today, if we move all the furniture.

Well, the front room, anyway.

Luckily the hall is easy - no furniture - and the dining room is fairly easy, since it has less fitted furniture and more easily moved stuff. I think I might want castor cups. And sticky-backed felt. I haul furniture around a good deal.

Other than that I went to a sling meet and found lots of stuff I ought to have posted before we went away. Oh, and mended the shower and mowed the lawn and had a shower and dressed children and cooked lunch and went to a slingmeet and bought a butler's pantry (what on earth shall I store in the wine rack?) and read some books. I wasn't reading enough before we went away and I intend to do more.