The builder's arrived and I am happier than one ought to be to welcome someone who is making such a mess. Paul is English, comes highly recommended and is very particular about keeping things swept and tidy. I have threatened to buy and chain and padlock to keep him here for a couple of months but I fear a month is the maximum he can stay before he goes off to another site. For the moment there is a large opening where there was once a door into the new rooms. On Saturday evening I arrived home to find Skeep, one of the Village Labradors inside the house eating the cat’s dinner. It is a little strange to go to bed knowing the house is totally unprotected. It is one of the joys of living in this area that even so, I feel completely safe in my “open house”. No need for a cat door for Matilda now.
Monday morning is my regular time for calling all tradesmen who failed to arrive as scheduled last week. This week it’s the jackpot. Nil has arrived to build the new staircase and dismantled the old one faster than a speeding bullet. Fortunately there is an entrance to the house on the second floor or it would be parachute time. The made to measure Armoire is installed and looks better than the photo in the design magazine we copied. Clothes are now hanging in orderly rows instead of being squashed in assorted suitcases and hanging behind doors where they have been for the past four months. Last but not least, the odd job man is coming next week for two days. Progress at last.
But, it is mixture of good and not so good. Yesterday, after my morning shower I went downstairs to find everything is the pantry in pool of water. It seems a dodgy seal on a pipe broke in that room when the new pipes were being laid in the new room. The shower water went sloshing straight into the downstairs room. The terrace resembled a bazaar of wet belongings for the day. Then a fountain gushed forth later in the when the builder accidently broke through a plumbing line. Fortunately it was a dry sunny day. As I write, a loud expletive from downstairs fills the air as more water gushes from the ground!!!!!! Another break through??
The previous owner who now lives next door finds this wreckage all too much and averts her eyes when she passes.
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