Stairs stained

That's the stairs done with mahogany woodstain, and bloody hell... wow. I mean, fuck! They look like something out of a proper historical set. (I am a bit of a history fetishist, so this is good)). I may do the walls in cream if I don't repeat the sort of russet orange/umber that's on them.

In either case, the stairs only took half the tin of woodstain, so I'll be stripping and sanding the flaky blue handrail and staining that to match the stairs.

(For those wondering about getting the woodstain off hands, washing up liquid and a sponge does it.)

It's quick-drying stuff, so I shouldn't to pop to the bog before it's dry - but I should say for those painting/staining/varnishing stairs and who may have to go up and down them before they're dry, thet the best thing to do is do all the risers and alternate treads, then do the undonde treads the next day. (Don't be tempted to paint one half, then the other when the first half is dry- I strongly suspect that'd leace a visible line down the middle, though I'm not stupid enough to try it in order to confirm that one way or the other!)

ETA- Obviously one gets rid of the sanding dust and specks immediately after the sanding stage - I maybe should have mentioned this yesterday when I posted about the sanding - and wipes down the surfaces again immediately before applying the whatever.

House tidbits

Chucked out more crap from the kitchen.

Looked out what paint we've got from previous decorating adventures, and will see what colours are going to go this time, and what's actually still useable (cos, like, paint is dear as fuck here)

Moved a couple of book boxes out. Bagged some classic Dr Who videos (stories which we've now got on DVD) for the charity shops - again. Lesley had previously said "oh, but a friend's partner will want those, let's give them to him..." That was three years ago and I found them over the weekend. Fuck that shit- to the Dogs Trust or Oxfam (they're closest, so the least far to carry stuff!) with them!

Fuck that cheese ad with the cowboy

Call it misophonia or just good taste, but I twitch so fucking hard and so fucking want to hurl something through the screen when that bastard cheese ad with that bastard half-sized cowboy pronouncing hard "ch"s as soft "ch"s comes on. God help the actor if ever I meet the cunt. (That that fucker Paul Whitehouse is still first on the shove-under-a-steamroller list, though, for those endless fucking Aviva ads)

The Bear And The Maiden Fair

Great Thrones again - but is nobody going to kill that cunt who works for Roose Bolton? Great arse on the blonde girl with Theon, and Charles Dance was a total show stealer as usual. Nice that they gave the bear his own credit - but that's not how bears fight! Great overall again though.