2009 is in full swing and life is back to normal. Now we have taken the Christmas decorations down, it has highlighted how tatty our house is. There are lots of little jobs that we need to do throughout this year. Painting the living room and hall, sorting out the horrible laminate in the living room/dining room and hall just to name a few. This weekend we have painted the fireplace wall in the living room in a pale green and it looks really lovely. We have also pulled up the laminate in the hall and spent just over £100 at B&Q buying some wooden flooring. It is finally cut and put down but we haven't glued it yet. That gives us something to look forward to next week. So we don't have to run the beading around the skirting, we have taken it all off and will put new skirting on when we have finished the floor.