Oops: life updates since a week ago

Have eaten Chinese lunch with A., have seen Peter Pan (with Sophie Aldred in it, which was nice; Pan v. irritating, as he should be, Tinkerbell well done, pirates nicely evil, want to read the book now), have had four huuuuuuge heavy rolls of insulating wallpaper stuff delivered, which are now squatting in the living room like, well, like huge rolls of something. So now I have to actually do something about this before anyone comes round- I have visions of conversations where the parties can't see each other, voices carrying feebly over the impassible wall of insulation, the occasional hand gesture visible in moments of extreme emotion... at least it would protect guests from my tea-spilling habits.
Since doing something about the elephant in the room involves taking down four bookcases' worth of books, moving the bookcases, stripping wallpaper, putting this stuff up, painting, putting bookcases back (some of them in different places), putting the books back; then getting some of the insulation upstairs by some means that may involve hiring a house-broken Shire horse or something, stripping the loft ceiling, putting this stuff up, painting... anyway, since efforts that are making me tired just to type are involved, I think maybe my living-room may have an interesting statuary grouping in it for a while (called "The Cost Of Saving Money", perhaps.)