Curtains

It would've been for him if he'd pulled this off; lurking amongst the displays of curtains and waiting for his mum to come along before popping out from behind. My, we would've laughed as we ran for our lives.

Quite proud of myself actually. That's almost two weeks of time off I've had and managed to put off all discussion of decorating until today. Put paid to all that procrastination with a nightmare session of perusing paint swatches, looking at woeful wallpaper and shuffling through soft furnishings. During that time Samantha managed to splatter half a dozen plants all over the concrete (shove them back on the shelf, no-one'll notice) and I managed to smash a box of four low energy light bulbs (shove them back on the shelf, no-one'll notice). We were also accused of causing Euan to have 'detachment disorder' (his words) after we hid from him in amongst the bathroom displays in the DIY store and left him wandering the aisles on his own.

Made up for it later and took him, his big sister and his big sister's boyfriend all out for a nice meal in Stirling as a last fling of the Easter holidays, then traumatised them all by dragging them around the old cemetery in the dark and telling them ghost stories.