Roadworks

The roads department have decided that June would be a perfect time to resurface the high street. Better still they've decided to do it between 5pm and midnight. The air is thick with the sound of scarifiers, road drills and big lorries,

Work continues inside as well. The fireproof boarding above the pend is finished and plasterboard is going to be fixed on top of that. Some boxing in of the spaghetti wiring in the front hall is under way and room 5 has been stripped out, had extra joists and bracing installed and now has a new floor. The ensuite there is going to have a corner bath while the wall of the ensuite in Room 2 is going to be moved to make the ensuite bigger.

The problem continues to be time, or the lack of it. We need both family rooms back by the end of the month and while everyone says it's do-able it's going to be close.

Our air conditioner arrived today, so tomorrow's work includes cutting a hole in the door of the cellar to take the exhaust hose from it. The real ale has been selling well this week, but is at 18C which cuts its life from nearly two weeks to less than one.

As an ex broadcast engineer I was delighted to see the clock for a programme trailer broadcast 20 minutes into the Spain-Ukraine match on ITV. I thought that sort of thing stopped when I left:-)