We have the painters in ..... Not a euphemism!
Several estate agents have valued the house and all are agreed that an external rub down and repaint would help sell it so I have gorra man in ~ in fact several men.
There was a time when I would have hired a ladder, bought a few litres of paint and done it myself but age and infirmity dictate that a man (or men) it must be ....... So I say goodbye to £1200 in the hopes that the bloody place will then sell.