Stirring the Paint...

...yes, more decorating today, we've done all we can in the kitchen (ready for our refit which starts Monday).  Now we're tackling the lounge. Thank goodness we have a large summer house in the garden to store all our books, chine, ornaments etc.  I'm so looking forward to finishing the lounge so we don't have to sit amongst a sea of plastic dust sheets to watch the TV! 
It seems we are not new to decorating our surroundings...
In 2001 and 2004, South African archeologists reported finds in Blombos Cave of a 100,000-year-old human-made ocre-based mixture that could have been used like paint.  Further excavation in the same cave resulted in the 2011 report of a complete toolkit for grinding pigments and making a primitive paint-like substance.  Cave paintings  drawn  with red or yellow ochre, hematite, manganese oxide, and charcol may have been made by early Homo sapiens as long as 40,000 years ago.