It all began like this :

Ever since we bade farewell to Ganpati, we welcomed six strange men into our home. We called them home to fix the lock. We had to fix the lock because we had to break open the door to let the guest out. M is one of those easy guests who is always welcome. Actually all guests are welcome at our home which often leads me to believe I’m running a guest house of the “Boarding, Lodging Type” clean, basic and functional.

This time round we found that our lodging was far from functioning when M got stuck in the room and began banging on the door. It was around mid-night when this happened and the watchmen had to be called to kick the door open, which they did.

But after M left, we had to get things functioning again so we had to change the lock. Since we had to change the lock and three other locks as well, we decided to change all the locks.

And since we had always wanted to get our doors polished but always said that we’d polish the doors when we painted the house and when we painted the house we’d always said : Oh it’s too much now, let’s get the doors polished the next time we paint the house and the next time we painted the house, we said exactly the same thing – let’s polish the doors the next time instead!

But this time we weren’t going to paint the house so we decided to polish the doors. And then when we polished the doors we found other things to polish like the desk which was used by the children for years and was worn down to the last veneer…..the tiles which kept popping and needed to be fixed, the bathroom which needed tiling thanks to the building repair work ……. and the tail of Hanuman went on getting longer and longer till our ten day job extended for another ten and may be more….

Finally today, after scraping and cleaning and sanding the doors down the end seems in sight.

The bathroom is functioning once again, the locks are fitted, the doors are polished and I hope by the end of the coming week, I’ll have reclaimed the house. May be now, with a slightly more updated look I can change my boarding and lodging to a B & B instead!