Halloween Efforts

Halloween marks a major step forward in Operation 'Bottomless Pit' - two and a half years and 50 squared meters of solid oak later, we finally have a floor in the lounge!  I can't deny that it has been a bit ridiculous -  people build grand designs, complete major listed conversions in shorter time than this.  I can only take comfort in the statistics that over 70% of renovations that span beyond one year never gets finished, we're beating the odds here.

Incidentally, our first Halloween here at the flat was 1995, when we just bought the place.  We still hadn't moved in at the time, but decided to have a Halloween party here nonetheless.  I remember saying to everyone not to worry about the carpet as we had plan to replace them before we move in properly.  Well here we are in 2010, many Halloweens later, they finally got replaced.

It would be apt to have another Halloween party to mark the occasion, but we just haven't been organised enough and settled for a civilised Sunday lunch out with the usual suspects.  Although no fancy dress required, Golf Boy did attend with a comedy finger, unfortunately for him, it was not for the Halloween effect.

Having had a mini operation to extract a piece of embedded glass from inside his finger, following by an unplanned A&E post-op visit the next day, a simple comedy bandage somehow doesn't seem entirely reflective of the scale of the drama...