I will do the tiling when Tracy is at work she's already driving me mad and I've only just took the bath out.
Best idea, they do like to play the foreman sometimes and not enough of the teaboy.
Are they smooth or rough tiles? My wife chose rough ones for some inexplicable reason, perhaps to drive me mad. She muttered something about
Mediterranean effect at the time. (I hate these fucking home makeover shows glibly coming out with those sort of statements and not showing the grim reality of trying to achieve it)
Now they were not bad going up as they take out any imperfections in the plaster, but grouting was a sod though it improved as it went along, practice makes perfect and all that.
If you've not done it before, probably best to start somewhere out of sight like behind the door then if you make a mess, ie wobbly or sloping, it won't be so obvious.
My problems were compounded by the previous owners tiling over tiles(!), lazy sods, and the original tiles being set in the cement rendering.
I ended up buying a huge kango to do the job, hiring became a bit expensive. Needless to say, it ate the specialised tile chisels like they were made out of butter and at Ł20 or so a pop, it started to become expensive and they were not particularly good anyway, weak design at the SDS spigot, three snapping during the job. Probably fine if someone had put the tiles up using flour paste, but the cement used to attach the tiles in our bathroom was more akin to the stuff used in constructing Hitlers Atlantic wall defensive pillboxes.
Anyway, finally got the old tiles off but with huge holes in the rendering back to the brickwork which then needed plastering before the new tiles could go up. Fortunately I'm ok with that, needs must and such, though would baulk at the idea of plastering a complete bare brick wall from scratch. I think you have to be doing it on a daily basis to get the required skills to result in a perfect finish.
Anyway, it was worth it in the end, the Wife was happy, but it took far longer than originally anticipated.