Just like buses

Builders are just like buses. Really they are. You know the old saying? 'You wait for ages and then 3 turn up at once'? Our Friday was remarkably like that. All week we've been waiting for the local handyman to come and fit a bit more of our kitchen, the plasterer to turn up having finished his outside job that had to be postponed until the weather was good enough (which at the moment it obviously is, it's lovely out there! I could almost be back in Australia! Well, an Aussie summer, I'm fairly certain Melbourne hasn't got weather this good right now) and mum has, of course, been sans kitchen window since August '05. What has been there instead has been a bit of board blocking out most of the light but -and this is a big but- unfortunately not the wind, or dampness or anything like that. Anyway, on Friday they all turned up within 10 minutes of each other, wonderful! A couple of minor hiccups later - the handyman thought the kitchen had been measured incorrectly but it turned out that because of pipes and sockets they'd taken all the measurements from the righthand wall, not the left so that was all fine... - the window seat was supposed to be oiled oak but on inspection turned out to be primed pine...that didn't fit anyway - the chrome carosel turned out to be something completely different, sold to mum under false pretences as not only was it not what they said it was but it couldn't even fit in the kitchen designed by them even if it had been what we wanted!* - but there is now a window, and more cupboards and some plastering done which is fantastic. More building next week, woohoo! *but this wasn't too bad as I got to argue with MFI for being idiots. I put up such a fight that I got a full discount on a mattress for mum :)