I like decorating. The irony that I'm paying a decorator to do my house while I go out to help with someone else's hasn't escaped me. However, that's what I choose to do and nobody need worry about it but myself. This was indeed the mission this Saturday. I pootled off to my girlfriend's sister and brother-in-law's house and we did DIY all day. It was smashingly good fun. There were walls to paint, things to drill, things to assemble, others to disassemble. It was a bunch of nice discrete easy jobs that could be tackled end to end, with the ability to both stand back and say - "yeah, good job", and also the ability to walk away from it and not have to scrutinise it daily and wonder how much better it might look if one or two minor anomalies could be fixed.

Perfect.

And there was chinese food.