Lonely
So , I’m sitting in a Sainsbury’s Starbucks waiting for a cold drink that cost nearly £5 which I didn’t really want but it will kill 2 hours until my physio appointment . Funny how you can be surrounded by people yet feel so lonely .
October 23rd 2023 - Day One in the House
They arrive in a blur. Four of them, pacing the flooring, all beanie-hatted, sucking on their e-cigarettes. Justin, Jamie, Kyle and Freddie. Meet the gang - our builders. No skip , no portable loo, no clue as to what they're going to do for the next few hours. At least it's sunny. Things start getting ripped out , stopcocks dribble water and the kettle's on for tea. The junk piles up on the patio, the floor comes out next. Justin doesn't seem to have a plan. The Jaffa Cakes are going down a storm though so that's something and suddenly he's gone. The lads clear off a couple of hours later and everything goes quiet. He asks to look at the plans from Howdens. Two days later he's going to ask for the Surveyor's report for the steels. This is not promising. We hunker down in our sealed off bunker that evening with an air-fryer, a toaster and a pile of boxes filled with useful things like a an 82 piece china dinner service and a crate full of unusual spic
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