Builders

Well I think they are trying to bankrupt me or worse still give me a bill so huge I have to consider going back to work. Not actually go you understand - just consider it. Even that causes me to have hot flushes followed by the need to go and lie in a darkened room for several hours.

So I will try and find an alternative. So far I have suggested to himself that if we cut out a couple of dinners a week and the odd breakfast and lunch we could save a considerable amount of money, not to mention the health benefits which may/may not be a side effect of this move.
He's not too keen on that idea, so its back to the drawing board.

We have the most amazing scaffolding and tarpaulin tent thing where the sunlounge used to be which is on top of the only decent modernised room in the house. Since it was put up and the sunlounge totally demolished - including the floor - dont ask - we have had at least 8 nights of gales and driving rain! As we live on the coastline the winds dont mess about here, oh no, gales mean gales not a strong wind or the odd gust or two. So we are seriously sleep deprived as well as almost penniless.
As I look after the builders who are systematically wrecking my abode very well by baking cakes for them and providing lots of brews, I have told them if they continue to find major problems I shall be forced into having to sell my body to pay their bill. One of them, who may well yet end up under the new floor when it is laid, said I might make more money selling my cakes, so I have decided that when they give me their final heartstopping bill I shall present them with mine. I consider £30 per man per day for tea and cakes to be a reasonable charge and as they have already been here 3 weeks and look set to be around for at least another 3 weeks I may make enough to pay them for a few of the slates on one of the rooves that had to be completely redone. Thats one of the rooves himself had said only needed a tile or two replacing.....