There's some light ...

 now at the end of the tunnel - and we aren't talking about roaring express trains heading our way.

Terry has made a start on the big terrace, and that's his last major project (but there are a couple of smaller ones). He's poured some waterproof sealing all over the old waterproof covering and then stuck some new waterproof covering over the top. That's kept him out of mischief all day, except that he lost his Stanley knife. We are now expecting to hear a news report of a local Belgian wandering around with a Stanley knife firmly embedded in his head. After all, we are 6 storeys up.

Liz and I started to wallpaper the first half of the living room and despite me having to nip out for an hour for various errands, that part is now finished. Tomorrow morning we'll be putting the first coat of emulsion on the wall in there while Terry seals the small terrace at the back.

We had to nip out to Brico for a few things too and we were looking at the paint on offer. We need to overpaint the wallpaper in the hallway and some 10 litres or so of emulsion would do the job. Having some properly mixed the colour that we like would be perfect, burt at ... gulp ... €140 for 10 litres we can forget that and it's going to have basic magnolia and like it. Mind you, at €50-odd for 10 litres that's not cheap either. I'm going to start importing and reselling job lots of paint. I'll make a fortune at these prices.