Blinds

Spent all day putting the 'new' blinds up.  The strings aren't as free-running as they should be so in my usual way, I pulled them apart, carefully take note of how I did so and spent a ridiculous amount of time trying to get them to run more freely.  When I thought things were as good as they were going to get, I began to reassemble..........having forgotten by this time what I'd made a (paltry!) effort to remember earlier.  

Finally got them up and think they look every bit as good as I'd always expected wooden blinds would :)  Very happy.