When a woman none of us recognised turned up on our doorstep this afternoon, asking for Kieran, we wondered what was going on. It transpired that she’s a neighbour of one of our friends and was having problems with her computer; she said that Rob had told her Kieran can “work miracles” on computers, so she was here to ask for his help. It would seem his reputation is spreading far and wide.

When not fixing peoples’ PCs, he and Nick have been busy recently, doing what they do best – making a mess. Sorry, that should read insulating the house walls. We did a couple of the bedrooms last winter and it made an enormous difference, so they’ve done the last bedroom and the sitting room, and nearly finished the kitchen, which just needs plastering tomorrow. While they were in plastering mode, they skimmed the landing ceiling; unfortunately, they decided it would be far too much work to remove all the pictures from the walls before they started, so I’ve spent a large part of the afternoon cleaning lumps of plaster off the paintings, as well as the walls and the floor :-/

I should be getting on with making a present for a friend tonight, but there’s nowhere to put my sewing machine in the kitchen and we can’t light the fire anyway as the furniture’s too close to it; which all seems like a good excuse to light the fire in the sitting room and watch a film.