Decorating the Coffee House Way - an occasional series

If you're ever painting a room - say, for the sake of example, the kitchen - and you think it would be a good idea to use masking tape to run round the edges of the kitchen cupboards and worksurfaces to protect them from the paint, here's a tip - DON'T.

And if your husband ever suggests that this might be an idea, and even goes so far as to be found with the roll of masking tape in his hand, the best thing to do is just sit him down and use the roll to tape him to the chair until his impulse passes.

In fact, why not go downstairs into the cellar right now, and if you find any masking tape you can just throw it away, just in case.

You'll feel better. I promise.

Yours, swearing the morning away with white spirit and a hot cloth,

The Coffee Lady