And the other way round - when on the rare occasion we took back a base from the Pongoes (Kirton-in-Lindsey 2004) we had an expensive and lengthy programme to get the place back to normality. The OM was in a state - dreadful dark wallpaper, I seem to remember and those ghastly Pongo brown leather armchairs were rapidly dumped, and the rooms needed a lot of TLC. The place had been trashed. OMQs were not much better and also needed much maintenance and major works.