Yay! It's Friday! What are your plans for the weekend?→[More:]I'm on holiday until 8 May. But ... I absolutely MUST decorate this computer room as I have a guest coming to stay at the end of May.

Looking at the junk in here, it seems almost overwhelming, but I need to break it down into manageable tasks.

- go through all the books and be ruthless in sorting the ones to go to Oxfam. Box up the rest.

- take that old Windows ME computer with the 19" CRT monitor down to the dump and leave it in the place where people can sort through the 'good' stuff. I will never use it again, someone else might be able to salvage it. The hard drive is clean, so if someone else can get the thing up and running, they can have it.

- the biggest thing will be moving this computer desk either into the middle of the room so I can paint the walls round it or into the hall. I have a hutch on this desk and all the recesses are full of bits and pieces, as well as a tower containing a hundred or so CDs.

- I'll have to cut away the old carpet from the wall or, if I can empty this room out totally, roll the carpet up and take it down the dump. It's vile - a 70s mustard nylon nightmare. It will be replaced by a nice wood-effect floor (it's concrete floor underneath, not boards, sadly. Damn you, 60s builders!)

- once I start, provided I do each task at a time, it won't be overwhelming and it'll be great when it's finished. Pictures will be taken.