Slide the bottom rail out of the string ladders.
Slide the rail back into the string ladders just under the remaining blind slats.
Releasing the plugs allows access to the lift cord and the 3 string ladders on the mini-blinds.
With the lift cords no longer threaded through the slats, this requires sliding each of the slats out of the 3 string ladders.
Just pop up a ladder, string up your fairy lights and place the solar panel in the brightest part of the garden.
"I don't have time to be home and domestic all the time," she says, "but I like decorating for Christmas". After opening the ladder, Urban strung the icicle lights around it, pausing to attach the strand to each step level with upholstery thread.
When I arrive, there are people up ladders, stringing wires, there are lathes, lamps, workbenches, and signs above them that read: Electricals & computers/woodwork and general/textiles & jewellery/bikes.
This folly, I know, is a form of regression, an eternal fantasy clearly fuelled in childhood by Arthur Rackham's twisted bark, Laura Ingalls Wilder's little houses, tales of rope ladders strung between branches, driftwood and tumbledown cabins up mountains.
The soon-to-open W hotel in the Maldives had ordered a pair of Gagnon's giant woven floor lamps, and the two men were standing on ladders, stringing walnut tiles onto rubber cord, letting the piece take shape organically.
Michèle's eight-year-old grand-nephew, from a ladder, pulled the string that dropped the bunting and revealed the plaque.
