Have a very merry tasteful Yule...
But not in our flat - tack rules!
Unfortunately the flash has cancelled out the fairy lights - the peace lily has blue lights, the tree has white ones, and the aloe vera has pink ones.
I repotted the aloe and all the roots fell off :( so I'm not actually sure whether it will survive or not :( Plant death guilt :( Poor aloe vera...
Another thing I thought I'd killed was all the little birds which had come to our bird feeder. We hadn't seen any for days, and I had been putting vanilla coated pumpkin seeds out, which may or may not be suitable for birds :-/ But I restocked the feeder with actual proper bird seed, and today a little coal tit made multiple trips!
And finally we started to sort out the curtains in our bedroom. We weren't actually that bothered about curtains - the dawn light wasn't waking us up, and we had the cardboard from the bed propped against the window so we could get changed without scaring the neighbours, but we realised we needed curtains for some insulation - it's cold!.
So three weeks ago Matthew picked up some curtains from his mum; last week we bought curtains and a drill'n'stuff (Wilko's finest) and today we... put up the net curtain. Go us. It was a little awkward, as the window frames are plastic and the walls are crappy, but in the end I could screw it in after making a starter hole with a nail. And it hasn't fallen down yet!
It actually makes the room look a lot bigger too (and feel warmer). Maybe tomorrow we'll do the actual curtains!
Unfortunately the flash has cancelled out the fairy lights - the peace lily has blue lights, the tree has white ones, and the aloe vera has pink ones.
I repotted the aloe and all the roots fell off :( so I'm not actually sure whether it will survive or not :( Plant death guilt :( Poor aloe vera...
Another thing I thought I'd killed was all the little birds which had come to our bird feeder. We hadn't seen any for days, and I had been putting vanilla coated pumpkin seeds out, which may or may not be suitable for birds :-/ But I restocked the feeder with actual proper bird seed, and today a little coal tit made multiple trips!
And finally we started to sort out the curtains in our bedroom. We weren't actually that bothered about curtains - the dawn light wasn't waking us up, and we had the cardboard from the bed propped against the window so we could get changed without scaring the neighbours, but we realised we needed curtains for some insulation - it's cold!.
So three weeks ago Matthew picked up some curtains from his mum; last week we bought curtains and a drill'n'stuff (Wilko's finest) and today we... put up the net curtain. Go us. It was a little awkward, as the window frames are plastic and the walls are crappy, but in the end I could screw it in after making a starter hole with a nail. And it hasn't fallen down yet!
It actually makes the room look a lot bigger too (and feel warmer). Maybe tomorrow we'll do the actual curtains!
posted by DMK @ 12:16 AM
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