I have a lot to do today, so I was out very early to brave the supermarket for my son this morning, hoping to get done fairly quickly, get home before it got too warm and deal with the migraine that had bugged me the past 24 hours. That didn’t happen… it was lunchtime before I got home again, head pounding and feeling very queasy, looking forward to a lie down and some quiet.
But I got me home from work to find the house mysteriously shrouded in scaffolding. I check the back gate before letting the dog out, not thinking for one moment anyone would be so idiotic as to leave a gate where a dog clearly lives wide open… believe me, Ani will not have let them attack her home quietly…and of course, said dog immediately sees her opportunity and does a runner. Through the back gate that some idiot had left wide open… off over the roads into the fields and woods…
It is an unwritten rule (Ani’s of course) that when we go out for a walk, she comes when called… but if she gets out under her own steam, then it is up to me to catch her…
So much for taking the migraine for a rest then.
Half an hour and much chasing later I get to read the letter in the postbox saying that work is about to start and with a whole load of instructions about moving things prior to the arrival of the scaffolders…
By this time the satellite dish is down, without so much as a by your leave. Not that it is ever used, but even so… I couldn’t get online and there is no chance of quiet at all.
Nice.
Apparently work will be going on for a week… with a walkway level with my bedroom window. I don’t have heavy curtains preferring to watch the moon and stars through light voile… So no privacy either then.
This is going to be fun….
All I can say is thank goodness I will be away for at least part of the time!
Sue Vincent's Daily Echo 
Oh no. How bloody irritating and stress-inducing all round, Sue; so sorry to hear. Hugs, Ali xxx
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Pain in the derriere, old chap… xxx
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Wishing you peace, xo
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You and me both, Alethea! xx
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Thank you, Sue 🙂
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Hugs. Enjoy the time away and I will keep fingers crossed that it moves along swiftly!
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Hugs back… and hope you are doing okay, Ionia! x
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I know that unwritten rule, well. So do Bailey and Logan. Hang in there with the imminent work!
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Hang in? I’m escaping north 🙂
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Even better. 🙂
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Sorry Sue! I hope Ani is safe and back and you’ll be escaping soon. Construction is the worst and just makes it impossible to think over the noise, let alone relax. Hugs.
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Éilis, I escape in the morning, and Ani is now safely with her friends for a few days x
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hope you found dear ani without too much trouble, that you enjoy your time away and that your house is better than ever when you return )
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She came back to me eventually… a little bribery helps… I told her she was going to play with her friends… she came back for that and now she is probably raising hell with the other two dogs 🙂
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I need to sleep in the dark because light wakes me up repeatedly, but having lived with builders for six months I have had the odd Life of Brian moment of exposure when flinging back the curtains.
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I don’t mind the builders so much, Lizzy, it is the walkway up to he window in the middle of the night… especially when Ani has already gone to her friends for the weekend… couldn’t sleep at all last night…
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