well, nobody's told me I can't go to Amsterdam tomorrow, so I will, and look at the tulips too, even if it is raining there as well.
God neti, I know, this house is already full of jno jnr's furniture and has now acquired a bathroom washbasin and surroundings that he got from Ikea and opened up ready to assemble then found he didn't have a screwdriver so didn't and now it is all over the floor. Grrr. He will probably be gone in a month as his flat is all plastered and he is just waiting for kitchen and bathroom to be installed by a plumber, though I am unclear if this has been arranged or not. Anyway, he is there trying to clean the floorboards now, a mammoth task as they are covered in several months of dust, plaster and so forth and there are several floorboards missing where he has been sweeping rubbish down onto the ceiling of the people below.
But somebody came in to measure him up for a carpet today... somebody from Carpetright, in fact. I thought they'd gone bust just after installing our squeaky floorboards last year, so they couldn''t come back and sort it out; but apparently they have risen again, probably without incurring their former liabilities to customers with squeaky floorboards...