We are away on holiday for a couple of weeks having a super time with Cousin Jan in Maine, joined by Pete, Jo, Ollie & Abbie.
I was intending to do one final blog before we left home, posting up-to-date photos, but ran out of time. Since then have been too busy or jet-lagged, and technologically challenged, to coordinate writing and downloading pictures on a different device to normal.
So, no pictures this time but can add the following from Week One of builders:
Our garage turned out to have absbestos and needed careful removal of nasty stuff, requiring cats & children to stay indoors. Sad for cats as was their last day to play in the garden before going in a cattery for 2 1/2 weeks. The work was frustratingly abandoned after one of the workmen cut through an electric cable (thankfully is OK!).
Adrian had to meet Groundworks Sean at 8.30pm Weds eve ( the earliest Adrian could get home from work) to discuss the tasks to be done while we are away. Details like positions of drains & soakaways, marking out, and ground levels needed to be confirmed. The Building Control inspector had been booked for the following morning, to approve and advise, but didn't show up until the afternoon, juast two hours before we had to leave for the airport and after Sean had had to go (evidently simultaneously finishing another job). As we girls were finishing packing/faffing Adrian was working his way through a long list of questions with the Inspector, and then - once at Gatwick - spent an hour in Costa while our flight was delayed, sending a lengthy detailed email to Sean with a summary of all the Inspector's decisions.
Getting on the plane was with a great sense of great relief at finally starting our holiday, but tinged with nervousness at leaving an unattended build behind! (And our little cats in a cattery for the first time 😓.) Watch this space ...
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