Day 1

The young couple and their family embarked on a journey of change with their old house.

The young couples family are Masters of the [Building] Universe (TM). They will be 'assisting' the couple [doing the work].

To start the day there was the presentation ceremony, the Master's presented the couple with Greaves of Protection (+1 against spiders). The couple had never worn protective hand coverings before, it was a great day.

And then before the couple could retire the Masters began working and dragged the couple into a new world of physical labour, the likes of which they want never to see again (but will be enduring a lot of over the coming months).

First things first, removal of floor coverings. The loosely laid carpet, lino, newspaper and other crud was ripped up and thrown aside. The house started the breathe again.

The Master's will be returning next weekend. We will be parading around the house walls singing and blowing our trumpets and the plaster on the walls will just fall off - if I understand the technical plan correctly.

Either that or we will be beating the crap out of the walls with hammers, mallets, foul language (that's from Mrs Young Couple), pitiful pleadings (Mr Young Couple) and maybe, just maybe, power tools.