The Electricians: Day 4

[poliphilo]

Yesterday evening they removed all the upstairs lights. There is now no corner of  the house that hasn't been trashed. Khalid lent us a couple of plug-in lights to see us through the night. Today they continued banging away upstairs, but the lights are still off at the end of the day. Khalid asks- with that sorrowful look on his face- whether the people who wired the place in 1986 were professionals, because the evidence is against it- but I've noticed that tradesmen always like to cast aspersions on their predecessors' work. 

I spent much of the morning noodling round Johann Hari's website. He's a political journalist whose views very largely correspond to mine. Odi rang in a tearful state just before lunch and we dispensed advice. I walked round to the house in the afternoon, but she wasn't there. I'd like to think she was out and about putting our advice to good use. 

Comments

[pondhopper.livejournal.com]

I can't think of anything worse than electrical work as it really does trash rooms and walls. It sounds like Odi and Peter are communicating again?

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Actually, right at this moment they're not. They've been OK for a year or so, but the tensions seem to be driving them apart again. I've only heard Odi's side of the story, so I'm not really sure what's going on.