This weekend M's dad has been here, helping with laying the bamboo floor downstairs, as I sit here and write this they are very close to having most of the work on the dining room completed, but the hall and front room must wait for another weekend.

so why bamboo? When we set out to source the floor for downstairs our thoughts were to replicate the Swindon floor with the cheap but delightfull FSC parawood parquet from Wikes. But the world of biomass is a different place to what it was 5 years ago, with wood harder or more expensive to source now it is a fashionable source of power. Bamboo is a fast growing grass, that can be engineered into cheap hardwearing planks, that are very sustainable, and you can get it everywhere now, online, and also at B&Q and ikea.

It is all looking good, attractive, fairly easy to work with, it looks like a good surface for Fidget to learn to skid about on! She can't wait to try out her baby walker on it!