House clean got interrupted by deep consideration of what to put in the place of a picture in the bedroom which needs to go for reframing. Much wandering round the house, rummaging through the spare pictures box and deciding that all the glass and frames on the pictures in the main room needed a good cleaning
( there are a lot of them so that was rather an extended task) ensued.
The end result was that The Beguiling of Merlin by Burne- Jones was moved from its position in the big room ( where it was partially obscured by an overly luxurious Ficus plant) to the space in the bedroom .
This meant washing the paintwork where it had hung and the paintwork where it was moved to as the picture it replaced was slightly wider. And this is why it takes so long to get anything done around here!