The Big Push Day 9

Todays plan was to somehow cover the walls in the stairwell, a bit of a difficult task due to the height and restricted space, so we got our selves up and ready then headed out to Hesdin and went shopping at Mr Bricolage. We bought two rolls of fiberglass wall paper, designed to cover all surfaces and give a finish ready to paint, and some glue stuff to apply it. We got back to the house and started preparations for the work, i gave tony a call to see if he had any extending ladders i could borrow and to see if they fancied going to Greg's famous party on Saturday night, they did for both. Tony said he may drop by later with the ladders and he wanted to check out how things were going. Ant and i set to and did the easy bits first, the paper was very easy to apply, though we made a bit of a mess of the first piece we did, the subsequent pieces went up with little hassle. As we got to the bit that was hardest to reach we started to improvise with our ladders and other steps and, with a hotch potch of me supporting this Heath Robinson type design we managed to get all the wall finished, ready for painting by me the next day. In the end it looked quite good, and the stairs were much brighter than they have ever been. Whilst we were in the middle of the work one of the ceiling tiles i had put back up the day before fell off the ceiling, so i will have to look at repairing that problem another day.
Once we had finished applying the paper we started with the furniture moving in the bedroom, just as we had finished moving the bed Tony arrived with the ladders, great for the paint job on Saturday since i will be alone. We showed Tony the works in progress, not too sure if he was impressed but he didn't seem horrified, then i gave him one of the cabbages from the garden and he set off. Ant and i did the final tidy up then headed back to Hesdin to do a little food shopping, we bought pizza for dinner and some other bits for me whilst he is away. We got home and set too loading the pizza's up with extra toppings before cooking, then sat down to dinner in front of the tv and relaxed. The pizza was so filling i had to give some to the dogs and ant put half of his in the fridge. The dogs really got lucky as they got their normal dinner, the fish from the day before and pizza, diet day on Saturday i think.
By ten we went upstairs, ant packed his case for the following morning and i read for a while whilst he scurried around the house, then an early night as it will be a five am rise again, the joys!!