Saturday, 17 November 2012

A Little Source of Pride.

There’s another good thing about painting a room: you have to pull the furniture out to get behind it, and when you do you find all manner of gunge that’s been accumulating there since the last time you painted it six years ago. There are spiders and spiders’ webs, fluffy stuff of mysterious origin, dust that’s turned a bit greasy over the years, husks of long-dead wood lice that you didn’t even know had ever lived in such close proximity, and bits of paper that you lost six years ago, and when you read what’s on them you don’t remember why you ever saved them in the first place.

So you clean it up before you start painting. And then you feel proud of yourself.

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