Following on from comments made, er . . . somewhere around here, I'm putting up pictures of my house in various stages of decoration/undecoration. So this is the nasty damp patch that I mentioned yesterday. There's various pipes coming down from the top of the house that kind of bend around the bay window before heading for drains/sewers, as they do. Trouble us, not all the water is getting there . . . some of it's leaking into my house. That picture on the right there . . . that's just a different angle, with a little desk light resting on my piano. As you can also see in this second picture, previous owners have actually liked these dado rail things. I had joy ripping those off. A long time ago, they would have been about a foot from the ceiling, but when I moved in they were about three to four feet from the floor. Wretched things anyway. The only reason I didn't rip these off unceremoniously with my crow-bar was because I didn't want to be patching up unnecessarily large holes in my plaster. Still, that's what they deserved. "Hey, I know, dearest. You know how these ceilings are, like, really high up, yeah? Well, let's break it up a bit with a line of dark wood, about two inches thick, but around all the walls at the same height, and then maybe we can hang god-awful pictures from them . . . whaddaya say?" That looks my piano to the left there, all safely protected from the dangers of DIY with several old sheets and duvet covers. Poor thing.