It’s all go you know…

Work is now going on apace at the back of the house, the front of the house and round the side – in fact, the only place there doesn’t seem to be any work going on is on the other side – but considering we are attached at that side I’m almost relieved! To make up for lost time, I had 7 fine young men arrive on the doorstep with the ‘main man’. There they were, shirts stripped off and glistening sweaty in the sunshine - if I wasn’t old enough to be their mum, I’d have snapped them up in a heartbeat if they’d have stopped working for a minute – but they didn’t! They got here early and pretty soon were all breaking and shovelling concrete as if their lives depended on it
- at one point the whole house was shaking on its foundations and I could settle to nothing except e-mailing some best buddies for reassurance and phoning hubby for more of the same. I did have some reason to worry as one of the builders who gave us a quote reckoned that section of the concrete they were ripping up hid a nasty surprise, a void, old drains or possibly dead bodies – but he was wrong – it was just a slab in an odd place and of an odd thickness. Well, not any more it isn’t – now, it’s gone altogether and the new path around the side is already down in its place. Next step is the patio and front path – and although I am temporarily without a phone (the cable having mysteriously been disturbed), at this rate, with these ‘supermen’ on the job, it should be done at the weekend just as predicted – it had better just be at the original price!