Fiona's Quiet Life

So they came this morn­ing to lay Amtico tiles where the dam­aged ones were removed in Feb­ru­ary. he smears the non dry­ing adhes­ive on the floor and lays some tiles beautifully.….….…i go in to see if he wants a cup of tea. they are very dark says i, yes he says con­tinu­ing to lay them ‘are you sure they are the right ones ’ asks i.yes says he’. so i go and get the ori­ginal box with the left over ones from when the floor was laid. oops says he.

so off he went, leav­ing a very sticky floor , so i cant get within a meter of the sink or taps, or the cooker and the fridge and freezer are in the middle of the floor.….….…..someone is driv­ing the replace­ments from Eng­land tonight and a team is wait­ing to lay them tomor­row, so they tell me. we shall see.

Everest have left a live elec­tric light in a puddle and have screwed the gut­ter to the wood facing, not put­ting it on brack­ets so it is bent and dripping…on to the light. in the puddle. they also left huge bits of wood with nails stick­ing in them all over the ter­race and two huge ceil­ing sup­port bits of scaf­fold­ing and wood. in the room where my party food is to be on Sunday. .….…if i get any pre­pared in the dis­aster that is the kitchen.

i have given up caring, if my friends and fam­ily cant take me as they find me then they are not much good as friends.

hav­ing given up on the painter and the loss adjus­tor ever agree­ing who’s fault it is that they spilled paint on the car­pet and removed it des­pite me telling them not to i have bought a huge rug and painted the floor boards that show, a creamy white. it looks great.

there is now a con­tinu­ous loop of 189 pic­tures of basil on the com­puter screen. and i have prin­ted off sev­eral and lam­in­ated them to use as drinks mats. and i have prin­ted off some with cap­tion bubbles for people to put their cap­tions in. it is amaz­ing what i can get up to sit­ting here keep­ing him com­pany, he has no idea.

at last after 17 years of a leak­ing gar­age roof i have had it replaced so a dry gar­age at last.….i hope.

and so to sleep.

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