June 2007

Some would say its impossible, but I swear our plumber turned up today, a Saturday of all days and we hadn't so much as bribed him or promised dancing ladies. Some look to the weeping Virgin Mary, others the Dalai Lama, but for me a plumber who turns up "for kicks" on a Saturday morning brings much inspiration and reinstalls my beleif in humanity.

Well the electrician showed up yesterday and managed to get quite a bit done. He's chased the walls for a number of switchpoints and laid the conduit through to the outside of the house for our garden lights. He's a pretty talented dude but unfortunately he doesn't have too many helpers and this means its difficult for him to get a lot of things done in a short space of time.

Anyway am much happier with the progress over the last two days.

For the sparky to show his face. Hopefully won't be too many more of these posts.

There's always one fly in the ointment. In my case it's the electrician. Not saying that he isn't a brilliant electrician, nor that he hasn't suggested some brilliant ideas, it's quite simply that he's holding everything up. You can't plaster-board walls until the cables have been chased, you can't put tiles down until underfloor heating is in place...you know the story. To compound the issue, seems our sparky's method of working is to spread himself thin over a range of different homes and projects rather than tackling one job at a time and staying on it through to completion before m,oving onto the next. Ahhh well, hopefully he'll be back soon and we can get the project back on track.