Life happens

OK , I said Friday would be blog day but...life happens.
I had lots of bits drafted for Friday but was away from pc all day and happily weary by time got home.

Online friend I met through Freecycle is victim of *!* !* builder who has left her house uninhabitable. She was in deep despair so DH & I went over to see if we could do anything to help. Work had started on 6th December and was supposed to take 6 weeks. It has been worst winter for years but that is no excuse for the standard of the work .

When I started listing what we could do to help I thought Blimey! We do drystone and wetstone walls, paint, wallpaper, move furniture, lay carpets, cut trees, hedges, fencing and... more. Well, at our age we have a lot of life experience...

We've never built or added extension.. we live in a flat.
When telesales used to cold call about patios, DH used to say
"That would be lovely", listen to schpiel then tell them that we live in a second floor flat and the sunny side is over the main road ...they never failed to laugh! :-)

Lovely to meet a real friend and we spent 2 days working on garden and moving stuff inside to help family get back home...and we brought half a hundred weight of rhubarb and some lovely fresh eggs home!

Today they have meeting with building surveyor, building control and ...the builder if he turns up. So I'll be thinking aloud about them all day...and awaiting the news

And I'm thinking "Who do we know with building skills?"