Isn't it surprising how work of a structural and aesthetic nature around your house can go on for what seems an indeterminate period and also how generally it is invariably under budget. Well bloggers it has happened to us now. You may recall I started talking on this subject in the early part of 2011 with the optimistic view that within two good months of hard work from our builder the project would be nearing its end........how wrong could I have been!! As house owners we have endured every humanly conceivable situation that we legislated could go wrong and yet it was something else that thwarted our aspirations to start showing off our finished product for the summer months. Yes readers it was, absolutely, our builder's wedding and cut price honeymoon where his guests pay for the 7 nights in romantic Cleckheaton and Liversedge in deepest West Yorkshire. OK it wasn't those two mentioned towns but it might as well have been so.
Let me explain, first we had the health and safety week off due to an update course which he had to fulfil, but of course this put the work back a week, then we were treated to more time away from the hub of the working environment for window installation in another property which he was trying to finish, (eyebrows started to rise at this point in Roger Moore fashion ) then of course we had the amazing story of the honeymoon fund and wedding to his long time partner. I am beginning to think that this man was taking us for a ride especially when he was asking his congregation not for the ubiquitous wedding gifts but , wait for it , money to fund the honeymoon. Eyes rolling outside our heads at this point !!! It just makes us doubly determined to monitor what our friendly builder is going to throw at us next to delay the work further, tea at the Ritz perhaps or possibly an audience with a Papal Nuncio, now that would be intriguing ? My religious name might be Benedict but I am not , by any stretch of the imagination, that daft to think that he is about to engage in an audience with me!!!!!! The summer rolls on and so does the work, but by Xmas of 2011 we may finally be able to start unpacking all our furniture in the newly appointed conservatory, just in time for that momentous time of year ; the snows of January and February.......ah the good old builder, one of life's greats.........!!!!!!
