.... random rants and rambles. no agenda. yet.

We're knee-deep in DIY jobs here, but can't bear the idea of running around with a drill amongst everything else, so have been booking people to come and fix/build/check things (Dad, the offer is always open, you know!). Sometimes they come, and sometimes they come late. Sometimes they don't come at all, for no reason. Agh.

And sometimes, they are funny:

This morning I got a text from the joiner (about an hour AFTER she was due) to tell me that she was running late and would be with us in early afternoon. About 30 seconds later, I got another text from her that wasn't meant for me. I knew this because it had a "x" on the end and she was asking if I was available to meet for a 2nd breakfast in town. Nice.

However, the best excuse was from Curtain Woman 1 last week, who phoned C to tell her that Curtain Woman 2 was running late and would be with us as soon as she could, because she'd split her trousers and had had to go home and change them. When CW2 finally arrived, she wasn't impressed to know this, especially not because we told her that CW1 had laughed.

(Am now expecting a red-faced joiner to come and see about our shelves, avoiding eye contact for the entire time. Fun, fun, fun!)