With apologies for the dodgy photography - it was kinda sunny, and I was kinda balancing stupidly.
Photo one: Half a curtain down. Unsurprisingly...that was Mum's efforts...
Rip the frilly knickers off...
Take the curtains off completely. Expose the curtain draw string mechanismy stuff.
Remove screws from wall.
Unvelcro blind from the curtain rail, and unscrew curtain rail from piece of wood above it.
Which is easier said than done (sorry Dad's screwdriver)
Unscrew the middle things holding the curtain rail onto the wood (very strange things)
And once you've done all of that you can access the screws to take the shelf off of the wall.
Better??
(We thought so. Wait until you see what we did to the walls!)
(We thought so. Wait until you see what we did to the walls!)