Mischief Managed

We had a general election yesterday.

So what's the next government going to look like? WHO KNOWS!

We have around 10-12 different parties represented in parliament in this country. Coalition government is the norm here. Usually though, parties have been aligned to either the left (red block) or right (blue block). In recent years, however, we've had a party sitting right in the middle, refusing to outright ally with one block or the other. They can go either way and they become kingmaker when neither block can form a clear majority without them.

Which is the situation we have now. We don't even really have a particularly clear idea of who's likely to leading the negotiations for the formation of a government.

I foresee these negotiations are probably going to go on for about a decade...

My room is so nearly finished now that Husband has ticked it off his list as done. The cupboard doors went on yesterday, and I'm putting in the shelves as I put things inside them. We're probably going to have to go back and get the remaining two shelves that I initially thought I didn't want, though. I thought, with the layout, they would be too difficult to reach to be useful, but I no longer think this is true. Not urgent, though.

Nearly all my belongings are back in here now. There are still a few things in the lounge, but they will have to wait until I've got these boxes sorted out. It's all quite chaotic.

What remains to be done in here is just some details, like hanging pictures and such. There is also a shelf I want put back up on the wall, which Husband offered to put up for me today. It depends on how far I can get with the chaos already in here. Again, I need to deal with the current chaos before there's room for adding more chaos. I also want to get a cork board and a new bin (blue plastic from the mid-90s is frankly no longer doing it for me in my room of grey and purple!) but I haven't been looking at those yet.

These cupboards have given me so much more storage space than I had before, and they are large enough that I can have the sewing machine, the iron and the big sewing box actually put away and not hanging around on any available surface or the floor. It also makes it seem like I have more free floor space, but I'm pretty certain that's an illusion.

There's a weird empty space in the lounge behind the sofa now, though.

No pictures yet, because so much chaos!