Phew!!

It's time to bring out the flags and dance in the streets; Yes, I've finished topping up the loft insulation. All the mucking about with building up joists and installing walkways to the various electrical fittings is over, and apart from removing a few bits of debris. . . IT'S FINISHED.

There's now a lovely fluffy sea of glass-fibre lagging, 270mm thick, completely covering the loft. Our house is now more well insulated than the top of Bruce Forsyth's head. 

Of course, now I'll have to start thinking about all the other stuff that needs doing. 

We had intended to refit the bathroom last year, but somehow that project got lost somewhere between replacing the front door and having a new central heating boiler installed. 

To be honest, not managing to re-do the bathroom was quite a relief. We spent ages trying to work out how to alter the layout to make better use of the space. 

Originally we'd hoped to fit in a separate shower, as well as a new bath. We faffed around with bits of squared paper and computer drawing packages for several days, trying to get everything to fit, but every plan we came up with always had something wrong with it. Radical ideas, like moving windows and/or the soil pipe outlet were considered, but even then we couldn't get everything shoe-horned in sensibly.

The final "New Improved Bathroom Plan" ended up looking suspiciously like the "Same Old Bathroom Plan". It was all a bit of a disappointment really.

Maybe this year we'll be miraculously inspired, and have one of those "Blimey, why didn't we see that before?" moments.

I'll let you know.