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“It can’t be true anyway.” I said.<br />

“What can’t be?”<br />

“That saying, you are what you eat. I haven’t eaten any sexy beasts recently.”<br />

I put down my sandwich and rolled Elly onto the floor. Our new mahogany<br />

panelled floor. It seems stupid but having measured up and cut the pieces, laid<br />

them down and connected them finishing off the aesthetic with the skirting<br />

board, I felt really proud. Much more so than I ever had from work, more than<br />

winning football matches or anything else, I knew what it meant to build<br />

something now.<br />

After I’d finished laying Elly on the newly laid floor we disassembled our bed<br />

and moved it into our bedroom. <strong>The</strong> walls which I had planned to be a deep<br />

purple were an off white pink. I don’t know what Dulux would have called it<br />

but it looked like a baby’s strawberry yoghurt. <strong>The</strong> bathroom was orange and<br />

green, the kitchen was the dark purple on two walls and coffee on the others and<br />

Andrew’s room was sky blue. <strong>The</strong> hall was yellow but a sunset yellow, not the<br />

horrible yellow like the village church.<br />

We slept well that night and the next day was dedicated to tiling. <strong>The</strong> bathroom<br />

was more difficult than the kitchen as it already had the toilet and shower<br />

installed so I needed to use the rotary saw to cut the tiles. It was fun but when<br />

the tile chipped up and nicked your skin it hurt like a muther fucker. I needed

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