Day 117-119

I've been a bit behind in updating this; sorry; climate wars tend to take preference. And we went to vist F over the weekend. But that was building-related: we were also looking at kitchens in Ikea.

So: on friday Harry was due to dig the front garden soakaway, which would have involved a big pit in the garden, a somewhat unsatisfactory soakway (there is not space to put it 5m from the kitchen) and a scar for the pipe. Going to bed on thursday I mused to myself "but why not lay piping through the side foundations and join to the rear soakaway, which was built oversized? And lo, on friday, Harry said that was exactly what they had realised they could do. It involved knocking a block or two that had been laid; and a little access lid; but apart from that it will save a lot of hassle and dug up garden (us) and presumably money (Bob). The latter doesn't accrue to us but will presumably give us a happier builder!

So fri, mon and tues turns into laying this pipework. And by tues pm we have a drive with no digger or dumper in it, swept clean.

The nasty white plastic guttering and drainpipes that turned up on friday turned out not to be for us. We are having nice aluminium, in Oxford Blue, we randonly decide (our current paintwork could be considered Cambridge Blue).