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 This year, right on time, we can finally call this room actually done done! 
 
-We found it pretty difficult to find a light fitting we both liked. Nikki likes the more traditional and stylish options and Ozzy has to lump it. (bad taste)/(a better joke). 
+We found it pretty difficult to find a light fitting we both liked. Nikki likes the more traditional and stylish options and Ozzy likes saying no. (bad taste)/(a better joke). 
 
 Our shortlist was between 'Blob' and 'Tube'. 
 
@@ -77,8 +77,8 @@ We ended up going with blob.
 
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   images={[
-    { title: "Done", src: s("bathroom1") },
-    { title: "And done", src: s("bathroom2"), },
+    { title: "Blob", src: s("bathroom1") },
+    { title: "Blob", src: s("bathroom2"), },
   ]}
 />
 
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ We added a block to the floorboard in the lounge that had no support underneath.
   ]}
 />
 
-We added a doorknob to the back door, and added some brass doorknobs to replace the plastic ones on the top floor.  (sprinkling of knobs through the house?)
+We added a doorknob to the back door to the garden, and added some brass doorknobs to replace the plastic ones on the top floor.  (sprinkling of knobs through the house?)
 
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@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ We added a doorknob to the back door, and added some brass doorknobs to replace
   ]}
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-We got our lounge fireplace swept so we can have occasional fires on cold nights, on which we could toast marshmallows. We haven't had many yet as the weather has been very mild over winter this year. Also Nikki misremembered marshmallows as being better than they are. Ozzy never liked them to begin with.
+We got our lounge fireplace swept so we can have occasional fires on cold nights, on which we could toast marshmallows. We haven't had many as the weather has been very mild over winter this year. Also Nikki misremembered marshmallows as being better than they are. Ozzy never liked them to begin with.
 
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   images={[
@@ -116,13 +116,10 @@ We got our lounge fireplace swept so we can have occasional fires on cold nights
   ]}
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-To no one's surprise we have not kept up with the watering schedule for our balconet herb garden long term and they mega died over the summer while we were on holiday. (Lasted pretty well though, considering!) We got some herb pots for inside so we can just get new living herbs from the supermarket every time they die, which is frequently. We have yet to tidy the balconet planters.
-
-(Pictures of herb pots)
 
 # Curtain poles
 
-We have not had the best experience with attaching heavy things to our walls. No matter what we tried, the wall plugs would steadily be pulled out of the wall. We tried little plaster cloths, we tried matchsticks. It worked okayyy.
+We have not had the best experience with attaching heavy things to our walls. No matter what we tried, the wall plugs would steadily be pulled out of the wall. We tried little plaster cloths, we tried matchsticks. It worked okayyy, but our main approach was to just not have heavy things on the walls.
 
 But one day we realised our bedroom curtains weren't fully attached when they fell off the wall, while we were trying to get to sleep. Argh!
 
@@ -140,11 +137,11 @@ Then we found out the spare room curtains were coming off the wall as well. We u
 
 # Spare Room
 
-Our main progress since our last update was to improve the spare room. When we moved in, our priority was to get it feeling more habitable as soon as we could. We [steamed the wallpaper off](week1#what-a-week) and [painted it contract white](/week2#the-guest-bedroom-5f) and said ['good enough for now'](/week4#guest-room), with the intention of decorating properly at a later date. 
+Our main progress since our last update was to improve the rest of the spare room. When we moved in, our priority was to get it feeling more habitable as soon as we could. We [steamed the wallpaper off](week1#what-a-week) and [painted it contract white](/week2#the-guest-bedroom-5f) and said ['good enough for now'](/week4#guest-room), with the intention of decorating properly at a later date. 
 
 What really sped up our decision to redecorate was that the radiator stopped radiating, and we had guests booked to come over in the wintertime.
 
-As it's a north facing bedroom, we are leaning into the cosy with a nice muted red-brown. No paint bombs have been invented yet, unfortunately.
+As it's a north facing bedroom, we are leaning into the cosy with a nice muted red-brown. No paint bombs have been invented yet, unfortunately, so manual painting it is.
 
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@@ -157,7 +154,7 @@ As it's a north facing bedroom, we are leaning into the cosy with a nice muted r
 
 Next on the list was leaning into the cosy by fixing the heating.
 
-The issue with the radiator was that the TRV had seized up, and it wouldn't be possible to just replace it like for like. The old radiator had imperial tails, and a replacement TRV would be too far away from the existing pipes. We took the opportunity to get a nice new radiator with a standard radiator tail and standard TRVs.
+The issue with the radiator was that the TRV had seized up, and it wouldn't be possible to just replace it like for like. The old radiator had imperial tails, and the TRV was horizontal rather than vertical. A modern replacement TRV would be too far away from the existing pipes. We took the opportunity to get a nice new radiator with a standard radiator tail and standard TRVs.
 
 There's a nice-looking radiator shop just down the road from us, so we decided to go with them. Support local and all that. But when they quoted us £600 to plumb the new radiator in (radiator not included) we thought they were having a laugh and what's the worst that could happen if we just did it ourselves.
 
@@ -177,7 +174,7 @@ First we mounted the new radiator on the wall. This was the easy bit.
 
 What came next was a lot of plumbing research using the good old school of youtube.
 
-Armed with our new expertise, we went to Screwfix to buy a big blowtorch. What followed after was a lot of practice to solder pipe together without leaks. We had also remembered our tips from Simon as to how to solder pipe.
+Armed with our new expertise, we went to Screwfix to buy a big blowtorch. What followed after was a lot of practising to solder pipe together without leaks. We had also remembered our tips from Simon as to how to solder pipe.
 
 <Quote person="💡 Simon's Top Tip for Soldering 💡" date="Dec 2022">
   The important bit is to not set things on fire
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-Done*. Asterisk of course. We had some other ideas for this room, maybe a desk or bureau in the alcove, extra shelves, maybe a larger and comfier headboard, maybe a floor lamp for reading, but as always, other worse rooms are being bumped up the priority list for what we might tackle next.
+Done*. Asterisk of course. We had some other ideas for this room, maybe a desk or bureau in the alcove, extra shelves, mouldings, a larger and comfier headboard, maybe a floor lamp for reading, but as always, other worse rooms are being bumped up the priority list for what we might tackle next.
 
 # Thoughts