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Petrol coloured greek bug
Well, there is nothing quite like getting back into the swing of things with a bang is there :) Before I went away I booked in the double glazing men to finally come and fit our windows - and as it happens today is their first scheduled day to come and do the job. On waking however it quickly became apparent that nobody *in their right mind* would be bothered to come and fit windows in this weather, I mean it is pouring down, a kind of delayed April showers.
So, imagine my surprise when there is a knock on the door at 9 am, and standing there are 3 very wet looking workmen ready to install the windows. So I prep them up with a cup of tea and a biscuit and they start about doing the job. Handily, their experience has done them proud in dealing with adverse weather conditions (lets face it, in the UK you don't know what the weather will do from one moment to the next) and by looking at the existing windows and seeing which ones have got rain drops on them and which ones don't they decide to start at the front of the house since the rain is falling in such a way as to not cause to many problems with the inside of the house getting wet.
And so on they go, and at around 2pm they've fitted 3 of the windows and finally give into the elements and head off for the day - they'll be back tomorrow. I have to say I think they've come on leaps and bounds considering the weather that they were having to deal with, they were all squelching around by the time they left with shoes full of water and I dare say they soaked through to the skin too.
As for me, well I've not been able to do that much really what with workmen everywhere, so I've spent the day doing my final catchup with the TV that Phil recorded for me whilst I was away and brewing pots of tea at regular intervals to keep the troops happy.
Oh, and as a quick aside, the photo's I'm putting in with recent entries are all ones I took whilst I was away, when I run out of interesting ones it will be back to the same randomness as before.
Posted by Abi on the May 8, 2006 9:33 PM
At least they fitted the windows rightaway. I remember when we had our windows replaced -over 10y ago- one day they came and took out all the windows and then they came back the next day to install new windows. Then they came back and changed the 1st floor windows in the same 2 day routine.
Luckily we didn't get rain. And luckily we didn't get buglars.