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Life in lockdown - Being Practical (ha ha)

I cannot believe how tedious scraping anaglypta wallpaper is - wallpaper that seems to have been stuck on with cow glue leaving a grotty sticky mess even after being scraped, rubbed and and washed down with sugar soap!!! its a foul job and I will NEVER  buy a house so covered in it again!!!  However it is keeping us occupied in this lockdown period - I am still suffering from lost mojo for the more creative projects so a practical task is the next best thing..... I'm not really patient enough for all this prepping malarkey  but I do know that it needs to be done and believe me I'm only doing it once so it needs to be done right!  We have spent over a week engaged in the thankless task of clearing the paper from the hallway - it feels like three months but its done and its job well done as its a task I have been dreading ever since we moved in.  Some of it came off in massive satisfying strips but for every big piece there were a million wee nasty scrappy bits th...