I appreciate all the responses and advice. It's not that I don't. It's just I'm moving out of here in 3 and a half weeks and would rather just get through that time and go, leaving it as it is. But u was just worried that asbestos was crumbling into my stuff below the window in the meantime. Google told me to expect all plaster to have asbestos and so I came here due your expertise and grounded views. In amazed that that somebody thinks the pink bit is wood, not because I think they are ill judges, just that it looks like something much tougher to my untrained eye. Look at google, it's scary and in only 22.