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Hello all. I have been away from the internet for quite some time, due to one thing and another. I have also been terribly tardy with social engagements – and on this subject I must extend my heartfelt and sincere apologies to two friends with whom I was meant to have gone on a Highgate jaunt recently. I will message you both tomorrow and apologise in more depth and detail, and also for my lateness in apologising at all! Would you still consider going to this event, however, if I manage to get out of my pit? I might even be able to drag Gareth along. We don’t have to stick to Highgate although perhaps we could do both on different days?
So apart from being generally slack, I have managed to do something I have been promising some friends of ours who hardly ever get to come to England for ages – namely, take some before and after pictures of our bedroom. A lot of damage was caused by a collapsed ceiling some years back, which left the whole place waterlogged and basically trashed. Coupled with the terrible state which the letting agents let the common ways get into when there were more people living here (including dangerous wiring and never employing cleaning staff in a house full of single men) it has been a long haul and a lot of work to get the house looking decent. So these really are from worst to best, with nothing in between.
Bye for now,
Della
Here is what we had to work with:
Here is the same view taken at twilight today:
It was quite hard to get the angle just right so I have posted two similar pictures.I couldn’t get the ceiling in but rest assured it is no longer collapsed!
Here is another shot of how it used to look:
And another of how it looks today. I leave my wedding dress on display as it suits the room so well and it seems a waste to only get to see it in photos and on one day 
And one last one taken from the window looking towards the back of the room. I have arranged it largely how I had it when I had the apartment (long gone, not missed!), but tried to go with the quirks of the architecture. I think we have done very well considering what we had to work with. But underneath it all was a beautiful Victorian house wanting to get out!
