Last night was fun. I took a break from gigging and DIY to do some DIFSE - doing it for someone else. I like DIFSE. It has all the fun of DIY, but the work ethic is slightly different, since you don't feel like you can let someone else down the way that you might tolerate letting yourself down. In addition, even if you mess a bit up, you don't have to live with the consequences day in day out. Often the little bits you mess up are fairly hard to detect, unless you live with them every day, knowing they're there and blowing up the error to a huge disproportionate well of despair.

Like my bloody shower-room floor tiles.

Last night I painted (well wood treated) my sister's shed. It took a couple of hours. It involved some detail painting as the shed has two windows. Luckily I had a suitable paintbrush in the car for doing that with. The result looks like a first coat, but I think the shed looks nice.

Job done.

As I've said, DIFSE is a load of fun. This is why I volunteered to help out with reinforcing and boarding a loft in Leeds. The opportunity was discussed while I was away this weekend. Essentially, a friend and I would be volunteering to go and work in the loft at another friend's mother's house. How much fun would that be? An immense amount! It might be a bit dirty and dusty, though.

The dirtier and dustier the better.

Sometimes you just have to get in there and do it; for whomsoever needs it done.