HOW TO RE-PLASTER A WALL

There was no blog yesterday because I insisted that Wilson repaired the dining room wall, where all the nails he'd hammered into it had caused numerous unsightly cracks.

The Bees, Polly and Billi, both being much more practical than Wilson (which honestly isn't saying a lot) offered to help, and before starting they all sat round discussing the best way to tackle the problem.

For some reason they decided that the best solution would be to stick paper over the cracks, then re-paint the patches to match the original wall colour. 

They used pages from one of W's old Rupert the Bear Annuals to paste over the cracks, even though he hadn't finished it — so he sat reading the annual, then tearing out each page as he completed it. The bees would then paste it and stick it on the wall.

All the children were wisely kept well out of the way, lest there be some terrible glue-related incident.

Today the re-painting begins...