Over the border to Nottingham today (haha) to see my friend and we spent the morning stripping wallpaper... busman's holiday? After a delicious middle eastern style lunch we wandered down the road and round the this bend to visit the local charity shops, all three of them. I bought a tapas recipe book with lovely photos!

Speaking of charity shops, I've WhatsApped Julie about resuming volunteering in the Mind shop. I miss it.

This evening I've given the threshold strips a coat of varnish, although at least another is needed, and I took up the back bedroom carpet and put it in the dustbin. Yes. That's how thin the carpet was, a double bedroom carpet, folded and carried downstairs with no bother at all.