365 - 159 Water No 3

That's how the hole looked this morning when the sun was still out. Both are gone now. The hole is now properly covered and the sun has a thick cover of clouds.

365 - 158 more from the water saga

After Monday's midnight emergency work on the water pipe we're left with a big hole in front of our garden gate.

Apparently they will be finished by today. But so far I haven't seen any workers who look like they want to close up that hole. I don't mind as much as long as we have water. But I do worry a little that I might reverse into one of the barriers when I turn the car around.
Meanwhile the work on the bathrooms progresses reasonably and the plumber had to turn off the water again. But looks like we soon will have an en-suite bathroom again. It's been nearly a year. Oh and the bathtub? The bathtub is in the bathroom and not in the bedroom anymore. Yay. Instead there are now building materials in front of the fireplace. Pah. Soon... First let's hope that we still will have running water in the evening.

365 - 157

It's been some time... Lots of drama happened. I'll tell you about yesterdays. We're having some work done at our house including bathrooms which requires the plumbers to turn off the water at times. Once they are finished they turn it back on again. Except yesterday they couldn't because some bit broke off the stop cock. So they called the water board who came and blamed the builders which turned into an heated argument which spiked the interest of passing police... *sigh* In the end the water man couldn't fix the problem and had to call some other guys who arrived in the middle of the night and dug up the pavement to start and fix it so that we at least have running water again. Now why the pots and buckets you ask? Well, once they turned on the water it became apparent that there's a problem in the upstairs bathroom which caused the water to run through to the bathroom below it. Hence Daddy Monkey distributed all those things (including one of the good towels?!) to catch the flood. At midnight. And still no water in the morning. It took another hour until we finally got water again.

A new road

After Daddy Monkey complained for the fifth time about the pot holes in front of our house the council must have had enough. They announced that the whole road will be resurfaced. On a Monday they came with an enormous machine and ripped off the top layer. On Tuesday they came with another enormous machine and put the new surface down. Job done.

How our house looks without all the cars in front.


Big Monkey has a wander ON the closed road.


Little Monkey loved the big machinery and the builders. He spent at least 30 minutes watching both days. He was the only one who missed them.