I was up nice and early this morning, ready to do all the chores I'd planned. Tomorrow we're going to start on the painting in our bedroom, but first of all we gave the room a really good clean, and did it need it! Behind the bed and behind the chest of drawers were particularly bad...I'm such a slut!
We offloaded my mum and dad's carpet shampoo machine from Keith's car and connected it all up, only to find it sprayed us with water as soon as we turned it on! Keith and I were both soon soaked to the skin and I uttered a few choice swear words but we learned to control the water (with a cloth wrapped around the connection) and eventually, after a lot of mess and very hard work, we managed to get them all done. They're cream throughout and have been done for ten years now, but they weren't that bad (we have cleaned them before!) but I just wanted to have our bedroom carpet clean before we decorated so it was just a natural step to do the whole house...
I took down the curtains in our room and handwashed them, but one of the eyelets came away which was a pain! However, it was a perfect excuse to go out and buy some new curtains which would go with the new colour scheme in our bedroom. Sophie's friend Susie was coming for a sleepover and they had decided to eat at Pizza Hut so I dropped them off and then drove over to Wellingborough to a store called Dunelm which specialises in household goods. After a good while deciding on which curtains to buy I finally made a choice, went home and was called out ten minutes later to pick the girls up!
Needless to say, when I finally got home, I had a well-earned glass of wine!
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