Up early today for Rob the plasterer, who this week has done the ceiling and walls of our third bedroom plus the walls on the landing and down the stairs. It looks great and makes such a difference.

Unfortunately Dom got caught up early on removing the radiator, skirting, light fitting in the bedroom before Rob could plaster, and then he went out for plumbing supplies, so progress on the bathroom in the morning was slow.

In the meantime, I chose and ordered a towel radiator and blinds. We are going for white powder coated aluminum venetian blinds for the bathroom window which should be waterproof enough to cope with the shower spray. We always order our blinds from web-blinds.com which is the web arm of Hilary's Blinds. Any size you want, good range of colours and styles to choose from, quick to deliver and very reasonably priced.

At around lunch time we made the fatal error of 'popping out' to B&Q, Wickes, Tilemates and Screwfix and even though all these shops are in probably no more than a 10 mile radius, the traffic was so bad it took us 3 hours to get round. Very frustrating.

We did order our tiles, shown below, but as we were due to go out with friends in the evening, Dom had little over an hour to get any work done.

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