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poliphilo ([personal profile] poliphilo) wrote2023-04-17 07:50 pm

Scaffolding

 We now have scaffolding at the back of the house. If I wanted to- which I don't- I could climb out the bedroom window onto boards, then down a ladder into the back garden.

I wasn't watching the clock but I reckon the scaffolders had the job done in a couple of hours. They were three young men- one of them remarkably tall- and they had a radio with them which played music I didn't relate to.

When they were gone our builder came over- from his house across the road- to say he hoped they hadn't been too noisy or used too much bad language. "Scaffolders," he said, "Are a law unto themselves..."

We assured him they'd been no trouble at all. 

"You know why he's fussing over us," said Ailz. 

"No," I said.

"Because he sees us as old people...."