No wonder it's taken me a while to get round to tackling papering the arch! I'm hoping it'll look ok when it's dried and given a couple of coats of white emulsion... but if not I'm not doing it again!

Edit: I've just emailed a local community group, found on Facebook, to see if there's a way local single walking pairs can be facilitated. The bubble system isn't all it's cracked up to be, and my view has always been not to moan unless I'm going to try and do something!