A tour upstairs

I thought I'd better do a housey post before everyone thinks our cottage is just

infested with mice, birds and bats etc!

It's not all doom and gloom, we've not found anymore creatures sharing the cottage with us,

not yet anyway!

 

Well apart from these.... I ventured out to a local discount store last week as they had a guinea pig hutch reduced to half price (slight shop damage). And Little Miss's gunea pigs have lived indoors for a year now (and their spilled food is probably what attracted the mice).
 I thought it was about time they went to live outside.
It's a lovely 2 up 1 down hutch, and they seem to have settled into it well.
 

I didn't bargain for this though.....

terrible picture taken on my ancient phone

Even the builder has gone soft in his old age and agreed with Little Miss

 that it's really too cold for them outside just yet.

 

So I thought I'd show a couple of rooms which have been decorated more recently, we renovated the cottage originally about 20 years ago but at that time there were just 2 of us and we didn't anticipate filling it with children. In fact we weren't sure at that time whether we'd have any children at all!

Over the years the house has changed dramatically, rooms have changed use, been divided, knocked through to be made bigger and additions have been made to the building.

Little Miss spent much of her time on Sunday sorting her room and was very keen to show it off.

She cleared away a lot of junk and sorted some things for the charity shop.

Then we re-arranged the furniture, she was adamant we move it but I wasn't sure it would work. It's not a bad size room but it's very awkward. A radiator and chimney breast are on opposite walls which restricts what will fit there and on the other 2 walls there are windows, very low windows which means nothing will fit under them.

 

However I think her plan worked, I see a future in interior design for her!

 

 

And of course there has to be a cricket room! Number 2 son had his bedroom done a couple of years ago when we remodelled the room. It had previously been our bedroom but had to be divided into a smaller room and a hallway when we added the extension.

And as he's cricket mad it was decorated on that theme (with just a hint of The Simpsons!).

It's hard to catch his room when it's not a complete mess, he really is the most untidy boy on the planet! Again he has a very low window and a chimney breast

which makes arranging the furniture difficult.

 

So there's a little insight, we're not living in a mice infested hovel, well not all the time!