Progress in fits and starts
Mar. 25th, 2023 05:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shewhomustThe builders arrived, as promised, on Monday morning. And departed on Tuesday evening, having removed the bent railings, and the coping stones in which they were set, and having rebuilt the brick retaining wall below. It all lookes very neat, if you ignore the lashed together barrier of wooden planks and the council's plastic panels (which prevents passers-by falling into our area).
Now we wait for as long as it takes for the stine masons to cut new stones to top off the wall, and arrive to install them (builders thought, three weeks). And then for the railings ...
Meanwhile, the insurers have offered us a lump sum which is worked out by some calculations of their own, and does not actually match the current list price of our car. But since no new models of our car are available, this is not entirely relevant.durham_rambler has tracked down a one-year old, slightly flashier version of the same model, in a garage in Hull. At one point we thought we would have to make a trip to Hull to buy it (and were nit entirely reluctant to do this) but it turns out a) that the garage will deliver the car to us, but b) not until the beginning of April.
So we wait for that, too. Oncedurham_rambler has accepted the insurance company's offer, we have to return the courtesy car within the week, so we may be without a car for a few days. I'm sure we can cope.
Tonight we are going to a party. I'm less confident of coping with that: I may have forgotten how to party. Time to go and be indecisive about what to wear.
Now we wait for as long as it takes for the stine masons to cut new stones to top off the wall, and arrive to install them (builders thought, three weeks). And then for the railings ...
Meanwhile, the insurers have offered us a lump sum which is worked out by some calculations of their own, and does not actually match the current list price of our car. But since no new models of our car are available, this is not entirely relevant.
durham_rambler has tracked down a one-year old, slightly flashier version of the same model, in a garage in Hull. At one point we thought we would have to make a trip to Hull to buy it (and were nit entirely reluctant to do this) but it turns out a) that the garage will deliver the car to us, but b) not until the beginning of April. So we wait for that, too. Once
durham_rambler has accepted the insurance company's offer, we have to return the courtesy car within the week, so we may be without a car for a few days. I'm sure we can cope.Tonight we are going to a party. I'm less confident of coping with that: I may have forgotten how to party. Time to go and be indecisive about what to wear.
