Marine Electronics

The cold of winter has got hold of you and you're mooching around trying to decide what to do with yourself. You're snowbound and the only thing that you can think of doing is sitting in front of the fire, drinking hot chocolate and staring broodingly out of the window. The only problem with that is that you've already been doing just that for a while now and you've have had quite enough of fires, hot chocolate and brooding.

Now you're itching to do something different, so, you turn to the only comfort you have and switch on the TV. You're instantly captivated by one of those numerous shows about how you can do up your home. You find yourself inundated with decorating ideas: ideas on both interior decor and exterior decor.

So, you finally find yourself entranced by something that you would have dismissed earlier and jump out of your seat to get a pencil and notebook to jot down all those great ideas. Before long, you've run out of room in your notebook and have to leave your comfortable chair to go get another one.

And before you get back to your armchair, you've made a quick tour around your house and have spotted many of the things that you've spent a lifetime trying to avoid - the cracks in the bedroom walls, the growing patch of mildew in the bathroom, the paint chipping off many of the skirtings.

The list is very long and could easily fill several notepads. Therefore, you sit down, and alongside your notes on various decorating ideas on interior design and general refurbishing, you studiously note down all the little things that need fixing, replacing or refitting.

The list fills even your second notebook but you decide to finish there, because it's giving you writer's cramp, and besides you already have all the pertinent facts to hand, so now you have to set about sorting them into directions that you can easily carry out.

Not an easy job that, when your decorating ideas, interior designs and room-by-room list of snags is all mixed up in one messy pile. You then turn to the tried and tested, ancient method of sitting on the floor and surrounding yourself with your notes in an attempt at finding some logical order you can follow later.

When you finally reach that sublime state of orderliness, you sit back with a tired but satisfied smile on your face. The knowledge that you'll now have enough decorating ideas and interior design plans and less time on your hands during those long hard months of winter, sends a gush of contentment flowing through you. There's nothing like a job well done and the foreknowledge that come springtime, your home will look nothing like its former self.