So I cleared a space.....

....on the kitchen table..........

Waiting for the carpet fitters.........drums fingers on small area of table not occupied by fat cat carcasses that magically appeared out of nowhere.......

Sorry.....felines 2 days in a row.....I must get out more.......

EDIT: carpet fitted beautifully by 2 charmers, not only was I complimented on my tea making abilities but they even did the decent thing and assumed (OK, sort of implied with straight faces....) that I was young enough to have a school-age child when I said it was going down (that's the carpet, THE CARPET!) in the boy-in-the-attics room........