Way back in October we started on the bedroom makeover and soon discovered that it was going to be a long drawn out process.

Little did I suspect that it would also lead to Bear falling out of a makeshift bed, spending nearly a week in hospital, coming out with an infected hand and fractured shoulder, being indisposed for Christmas and beyond and then going down with bronchitis.

But, although we still have various medical appointments to attend he is, at last, beginning to feel better. In fact, yesterday he drove into town and we did some shopping to finish off the bedroom.

Before, there was pink wallpaper and a frieze - mostly in good condition but with very noticeable 'cat-scratch' areas. Bear's attempts to protect them with plastic looked terrible so the wallpaper had to go.

The 'meringue' colour paint looks fresh and clean but somewhat bare so we needed more pictures than the ones we already had. I chose some cat pictures from the 2006 and 2007 calendars and we bought  frames at 6 euros each from ' Mille Choses'.

Now the bedroom is about as finished as it's going to be for the time being. New curtains and bedlinen are out of the question but we did have to have a new wardrobe because the old one fell apart.

So what do you think?