Friday Matt was off early to go to collect some exciting presents from Lidl – yeah I know I’m a classy bird clearly. It does all have a quality that I can improve on though and I hope that my sweet peas will help with this. I have been working most of the day but I have also been potting up as much as I can so everything needs moving

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Thursday An early start to the day with meetings. Before I started I realised it could be a very warm day so went to open the greenhouse, only to find that the whole shelf of seedlings had somehow been thrown off and were upside down on the floor. Unfortunately I had no time to do anything about it so in for my first meeting. After the first couple of meetings

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Thursday So with Matt back I may be able to sleep a little longer, not much though as there is lots of work to be done and things to manage. Apparently we’re meant to have the pool guys and technical assessment for the new boiler today. Weirdly however there seems to be no sign of either, and the pool guys in particular have been very punctual to date. I can

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Friday Was hoping to crack on with house stuff today but work had different ideas. My weekly call with PSRL was extended. Then I had a call with the ever wonderful Rhys. It was very productive, but most importantly I got to briefly see Lucy before she went for lunch with her mum, she’s definitely getting close now. Quick trip around the garden afterwards and realised I had a couple

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Monday It’s a big day today and a very early morning to go along with it. Up at ’em before 8am local time. There was a good reason however. The pool guys are due to arrive. Even more surprising however was the fact that they didn’t just arrive on the right day but they were even early, and there’s a whole team of them. Can’t just stand around watching them

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Wednesday The best, and worst, thing about people leaving is the amount of work we can get done [with the exception of Tonia who definitely adds to the delivery rate]. In the working days we’re now back to spending lunchtimes and evenings working on the house. ‘Breaks’ today were spent digging the trench deeper for the power to the new ‘pool house’. It has to be 50cm deep I understand

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