Drawings into images

I worked out how to do the jpeg transformation! Here's the latest thinking with regard to my kitchen floor:

In other flat-related news, the insurance guy came today about my loo ceiling. Result? I'm strongly advised to leave the window open until May, when he'll come back to see if the ceiling's dried out enough for them to repaper. They can do that when the humidity is at 12%. At the moment, after a full month of drying, it's at 80%. Ouch.

Praise be for the post!

My very welcome guest caught a train to Amsterdam on Thursday afternoon. He came by my office beforehand so we could have lunch together and he could give me back my keys. The lunch bit went very well, the key bit less so. Four hours later, chatting to a colleague about his visit, it struck me that my house keys, office keys and post-box key were all on their merry way to Holland. Ah...
Fortunately, my spare keys were with a friend rather than in a shoebox beside my bed so I've been able to function, but I've been lying awake at night wondering why on earth I told him to post me my keys rather than insisting on UPS or registered mail or even just jumping on a train to Amsterdam for the weekend. I should add that I have the most hard-core five-point dead bolt system on my steel-reinforced door (heck knows what the previous residents have been scared of but they did not want visitors) so getting spares or replacing locks is an expensive business.
Anyway, all this to say that my keys finally arrived at work this morning and boy was I relieved. Probably even beats the Aerobed delivery day in terms of wide grins.

Busy

Busy-busy last week and an unexpected but very welcome guest most of this week so I'm having a lazy weekend to myself. I did a proper clean this morning - crazy dust bunny activity - and have been enjoying mooching and drinking tea in my lovely flat this evening.

In November, I:

- "restored" my sitting room floor:

- hung new curtains (the long, thick dining room curtains of my childhood but, as it happens, pretty much perfect for the room and nothing I would ever have had the guts to choose myself):

- reorganized my furniture with the aid of two conveniently-sized cardboard boxes (not the final layout! This photo was taken in the middle of all the cardboard swooshing):

- bought two bedside cabinets, not a pair, one of which is now doing sterling service hiding all my computer and telephone wires (and the other of which is now clean and will, one day, do sterling service in a renovated non-submarine bathroom):

- wrinkled my nose every time I went into the loo because of the disturbing smoke/mould smell which, I assume, is coming from the ceiling:

- sussed out, I think, the way I'm going to organize the kitchen (but can't work out how to transform the drawing into a jpeg file),

- and made another ginormous pot of soup. :)