Well, I meant to keep up to date with this, however, life got in the way as it usually does!
I have been very busy, thankfully with lots of portrait work, an actor and a model included, so it has been a lovely exciting week for me. I could have done without the excitement on Saturday night though; the kitchen ceiling began to pour with water at eight o'clock and by 9 o'clock a chunk of ceiling came crashing down. About two metres in all.

We have now had the source of the problem fixed, an overflow pipe that was running uphill instead of down would you believe? We knew the house needed lots of work when we moved in and we are slowly getting around to it all, but it's the little things that are tucked away ready to wreak havoc that is the most worrying part of it.

The emergency plumber came around and had a look, but told me it wasn't covered under the insurance, it was an easy job for Campbell to re-route the pipe and it now goes straight out of the wall, instead of 4 feet away via the bath outlet. The bulders arrive tomorrow to replace the entire kitchen ceiling and the laminate floor in the bathroom. Luckily these are insured. The laminate was due to be replaced and I hated the artex on the kitchen ceiling, which needed patching, so a win-win situation all round! Talk about landing in a pile of poo and coming up smelling of roses - forget that - the aroma is Armani Code! - Lucky me!