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The bleak winter is getting to you and you’re mooching around trying to decide what to do with yourself. You’re snowbound and the only thing that you can think of doing is sitting in front of your fire, drinking hot chocolate and staring broodingly out of the window. The only thing with that is that you’ve already been doing just that for days now and you’ve have had enough of fires, hot chocolate and mooching.

Now you’re ready to do something different. So, you turn to the only solace you have and switch on the TV. You’re instantly enthralled as you come across one of those many shows about how you can do up your home. You find yourself flooded with decorating ideas: interior decor and exterior decor, you name it and they’ll have it on the TV.

So, you finally find yourself entranced by a program that you would have dismissed earlier and jump out of your seat to get a pencil and notebook to write down all those fantastic ideas. Before long, you’ve run out of room in your notebook and have to leave your comfortable chair to go get another one.

And before you get back to your armchair, you’ve made a quick detour around your house and have spotted many of the things that you’ve spent a lifetime trying not to see – the cracks in the bedroom walls, the growing patch of mildew in the bathroom, the paint chipping off many of the skirtings.

The list is never ending and could easily cover many pages. So you dutifully sit down, and alongside your notes on various decorating ideas on interior design and general refurbishing, you studiously note down all the little things that need fixing, replacing or refitting.

The list covers more than even your second notebook can hold but you decide to stop there, because it’s giving you writer’s cramp, besides you already have all the relevant facts to hand, so now you set about sorting them out into sections that you can easily carry out.

Not an easy job that, when your decorating ideas, interior designs and room-by-room list of snags is all mixed up in one messy pile. You then turn to the tried and tested, ancient method of sitting on the floor and surrounding yourself with your notes in an attempt at finding some logical order you can follow later.

When you eventually reach that sublime state of order, you sit back with a tired but happy countenance. The knowledge that you’ll now have enough decorating ideas and interior design plans and less spare time on your hands during those long hard months of winter, sends a rush of contentment flowing right through you. After all, there’s nothing like a job well done and the knowledge that next spring, your home is going to look nothing like its former shabby self.