Not for the blog. For the house. Today we are having painting done in the bedroom and the downstairs bathroom (gosh, that makes the house sound huge, doesn’t it?) We’d intended to do the painting some time ago, after we bought our new bed. But just as we were lining all that up, our stove blew up. (Not massively—it’s an electric stove, so the blow-up was a very large white spark and then complete inertness for the mass of metal). Well, a new stove was on the menu for a long time. The one that died was here when we bought the house. …