So, yesterday I decided to do a job I have been putting off for weeks now; One of our parrots has taken to sitting on the living room curtain poles and pulling wallpaper off when no one is looking. Easy solution I thought - I'll just fix the curtain poles nearer the ceiling so the sod cannot land on them. Start at 10 and finish at noon I estimated.
I could not have been more wrong; There seems to be an inordinate amount of steel in our house walls right where I needed to drill holes. After an hour or so, we had so many aborted holes drilled in the walls I could have thrown the drill out of the window. Another hour or so was spend selecting the best holes from the large choice available to me, and custom making some rawplugs to fit their stupid sizes.
By the middle of the afternoon I had curtain poles back up, but then had to plaster up the wall to hide the godawful mess I had made. By the time it had gone off and I had painted the wall, it was tea time.
And all the time the parrot sat watching me, making stupid noises. To round the day off, I thought I would clip her claws. This descended into utter chaos and I am now sporting several deep scratches and a some pretty painful holes in one hand where she bit me.
God, I hate DIY...
Cheers, Steve.