I need a refuge…

Kryton is the king of the humblebrag to be fair.

Yeah, some walls are being painted, whoop, look at me doesn’t that make me, er….  normal.    There must be some reet poor people in here if you think painting some walls is somehow upper middle class/indicative of wealth/ southern.

Its OK, my man cave isn’t as posh as most:

Yeah, some walls are being painted, whoop, look at me doesn’t that make me, er….  normal

You’re right. Hardly worth making a fuss over is it?

He says ‘painted’ but have you seen his ceiling?

I know a fair few people who could not afford to have decorators in to paint their walls so yes it is a bit middle class, indicative of wealth

You’re right. Hardly worth making a fuss over is it?

Its not so much the work, its the contents of upstairs being downstairs for two weeks akin to this:

haha…humbebrag, not heard that before!

<span style=”font-size: 0.8rem;”>Yeah, some walls are being painted, whoop, look at me doesn’t that make me, er….  normal</span>

You’re right. Hardly worth making a fuss over is it?

Don’t try and worm your way out of it, you mentioned carpets too!  😮

you mentioned carpets too!

I know I know, we’re having a carpet! YAAAAS I’ve made it to upper middle class!

Its OK, my man cave isn’t as posh as most:

meh, at least you have a mancave.

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Some of us work hard to find the money because we’ve nether the time nor skill to do some things, thats why tradespeople exist Molgrips.

I wasn’t taking the mick out of you paying a tradesperson.  No problem with that.  I’m saying something good is happening to you, you should be happy about it.

Woodwork has needed doing for about 7 years in our house, and the carpet’s totally ****.  And yet, there it still is. If it gets painted, it’ll be me that has to do it, and I **** hate painting.  In fact I hate DIY.

Basically, count your blessings.  You could be having mess everywhere and having to spend your own evenings doing it to boot.

#passivaggressivehaus

Oh, very well done!

Annnnd we’re done.   I should have known better than to schedule this at the end of 4 months winter training and at the end of a sales quarter, but looking good now.  Time to spend the weekend putting the upstairs contents back where they belong and de-stressing

Its been tricky.  Although the painter and decorator ultimately came good, he spent 10 days moaning and huffing around the house calling my name every 15 mins for a decision,  it began to wear thin.  Got worse when yesterday the carpet was laid – very well and quickly by a local family owned place – and the doors wouldn’t open.  To be fair he came back and planed them, but not before moaning about it which tipped Mrs K over the edge and he suffered the wrath.

I spent yesterday in a local social services refuge, and as said above it sometime pays to realise how lucky we are that our definition of a moment of pain is actually quite minor compared to some peoples daily issues.

Bikebouy, I hope everything’s going forward/well for you.