Slow Progress

[poliphilo]

If a house is a machine for living then this house is a machine that's busted. The only running water is in the bathroom and the only cooking facilities are in the back living room.

The joiner has been here all day. I think he may have finished in the front living room, but I can't be sure because he left before I could ask him. The kitchen is so full of packaged kitchen units that I can't use the back door.

They're showing old John Wayne movies in the afternoons- not very good John Wayne movies. Yesterday it was The Undefeated- in which his co-star is Rock Hudson of all people. Rock Hudson with shoulder-length hair and a moustache looks like a beefier Keanu Reeves. Today it was some nonsense about a lost city co-starring Sophia Loren.  

The man from the stair-lift company rang to say he was coming to measure us up for a new track. He then rang again to say he was stuck in snow on a back street in Rochdale. 

Comments

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It is rather. I wake up every morning and think, "here we go again".

[wlotus.livejournal.com]

Have they said when they'll be done?

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

The work is scheduled to finish by the end of the week, but obviously it won't. The short answer is, they haven't given us a date- and I can only guess how long it'll be.

The contractor is frustrated too. The longer it takes, the more money he's losing on the deal. We're lucky in that we're doing this through Oldham Council. They're the client. The contractor might be tempted to mess about with us because we're only private citizens, but he's not going to risk alienating the Council.