Sort of...
They were here at 8am... Actually they were here at 7.45, but I was still sat in bed cuddling a coffee and trying to muster the energy and enthusiasm to face the day. Astonishing how the sound of a builders' lorry arriving can galvanise things, isn't it! So I bounded downstairs, rushed out to move the car off the front of the drive - to find rain. Not stair rods - not a monsoon - just a steady, insistent, all-pervading drizzle.
They did their best, poor lads, they unloaded all the materials from the lorry and stacked them under the car port, they sloshed around the swamp and prodded yesterday's concrete... they struggled manfully for an hour in the rain, and then they gave up. The forecast suggests that the rain is set to stay and people slightly further west than here are saying that they are getting some snow falling, which wouldn't help at all.
It's not so big a deal as the actual assembly of the conservatory isn't scheduled until January - they happened to have a slot with some lads free for a few days to fit the base build in this side of the festive season, so they thought they'd get it done now. The glas panels are still being manufactured, so there's no great pressure to get it done this week. They will be back tomorrow - we'd already agreed that they'd work tomorrow - but I don't expect they'll be finished, so that means Monday, and I was hoping to take Monday off and head for Wales. And we do want to be able to put all the stuff back in the garage at some point.
Ah well...
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