Stripped!

Caffeine intake: 5 cups tea
Hours up a ladder: 3
Calories burned: 2,546 (approx)
Calories consumed: ???? (hope springs eternal)
Productive Mummy Brownie points earned: 50
Glamour quotient: 2 (mascara in place, but no lippy)

a.m.:
Winnie is no more. After more than a decade, Bear of Very Little Brain, Tigger, Eeyore, Piglet, Owl & Christopher Robin sent back to Hundred Acre Wood by Action Mummy armed with bowl of warm water, wallpaper scraper and Radio 4 online. After spending most of last weekend listening to OH's bright ideas to revamp No.1's bedroom (delivered from comfort of armchair) decided time was right to Just Do It.

OH conveniently working this morning, so left alone to get on with it.
No.1 offers to help out by watching Saturday morning cartoons and playing video games.

Three hours later, shoulder muscles screaming, hair filled with fragments of shredded Winnie & Co., step back to survey fruits of my labour. Clean, light and ready for Steps 2-4. Excellent. Am international Woman of Action. Am also in need of shower.

Next steps?
2) Polyfiller & sandpaper
3) New paint (several coats)
4) Raid IKEA for super-cool pseudo industrial teenage furniture.

Is end of month, therefore strapped for cash. Also OH more of a thinker/talker than do-er. This may take some time...

Til then, No.1 has to put up with new grafitti sketch of peepers and "Big Mummy is watching you" on bedroom wall.
Maybe THAT will spur 'em on?

p.m.:
Invited to Spiros & Tasia for booze & eats (special deviation from standard 'slap some flesh on the barby' menu to accommodate awkward buggers like me who don't eat meat). No.1 and their daughter N studiously casual with each other despite chemistry over the summer. N's little bro, V, is determined to make royal pest of himself and bring N to screeching point (doesn't take long).

Tease Panayiotis - from a village up a Cypriot mountain, therefore more Greek than most Greeks - that us ex-pats have to stick together. Not sure if he 'gets' my English irony.

After 4 glasses of wine, am super Scrabble Mistress - in Greek. In team with 6-year-old V, trounch No.1 & N who look on in disgust as we run victory lap round the living room. Especially proud of word that won us 48 points on triple word score: "ΧΕΣΩ" (the verb 'to shit'). Sometimes is good to be grown-up and able to say bad words without having mouth washed out with bar of Fairy green soap.

Fall into bed in haze at 3am. Tomorrow a.m. must be bright-eyed/bushy tailed for Memorial service to mark 6 months since the death of OH's aunt.
May need to wear Jackie O. shades...