Yesterday managed to get into a right pickle with the curtain pole...a whole new way of pole dancing invented. Old rail refused to let go of the wall batten, so it pulled it off the wall. Ended up asking my upstairs neighbour to help out, 4 hours (with a vast amount of blood, sweat, tears, expletives and chasing a rampant finial all over the floor) later we had the old rail out, batten reattached to the wall, pole installed and curtains in place. Mild hysteria at the end cos the flippin' eyelet curtains went on the wrong way around.....but we sorted it.....eventually.
I am NEVER...repeat NEVER...doing another curtain pole installation......absolutely definitely NEVER AGAIN!!!