Wednesday, 28 December 2016

“Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.” - Robert A. Heinlein


Certainly, the above is something my children like to apply to their parents.  Given we only have a few days in which to emulsion, prime and gloss the refurbished loft master bedroom before the replacement carpet arrives, the children have been conspicuously absent.

Whilst mum and dad creak and groan their way around the bedroom floor, cutting-in emulsion above skirting boards, knees grinding as they go, the children sleep soundly in their beds.  Eventually, driven from his bedroom by the constant expletives emanating from the room above, the youngest made an appearance to wheel a roller for a few hours.

I am still waiting for that distant day when the children consider themselves adults and actually realise that their parents can no longer do it all and indeed, should not have to do it all.  But you know what they say, what you've never had you'll never miss.

Dulux Warm Pewter bedroom

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