Thursday, 16 May 2013

Caravan Diary, Day 12

Well, well, well, we're finally back in the 21st century! Broadband is connected and we even have a landline phone. Amazing! I can now actually look at builders' quotes without needing to get my magnifying glass out. Wicked!

The first lot of new internal doors arrived this morning and apparently the carpenter is going to spend all day tomorrow fitting them. And we're having skirting boards in two of the bedrooms. Not that that was particularly high on my list of priorities, but it seems our builder has been delayed on another job and thought he'd do us a favour if at least we saw some progress on other fronts.

Tim and Corinne might be rocking up to give us a hand again on Saturday and, while I can't think of anything nicer, I am slightly apprehensive, as it'll become very apparent just how little progress we have made since they were last here. All I can say is: sick children. I really don't know how on earth to get on to wallpaper stripping and hole filling with a baby and a toddler who both seem glued to my hips.

In other news: our new road is really growing on me. Not only have we now met several of our neighbours and all of them without exception have heartily welcomed us to the neighbourhood. No, we also have just discovered an alleyway leading from almost opposite our house to a football-field-cum-mini-playground and further onto the primary school. Ace! Ah, and then there is the lady riding her horse down the street. Two sightings of her so far. Curiouser and curiouser...

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