Down tools

I'm not sure just how many things could go wrong with a loft extension, but so far I've experienced: leak into existing bedroom, foot through bedroom ceiling resulting in big hole, builder falls off roof (taking down phone line with him), power loss for 2 days due to cutting through electricity cables, boiler being linked-to incorrectly resulting in no heating, no hot water and a leaking boiler and most recently a leak through my newly fitted 'leak-proof' window.

I'm sure that had we not had such a Carry On up the Loft Extension style chain of events, they would have managed to finish-up tomorrow, remove the scaffolding, take the final payment and drive off into the sunset and their next job (probably not into the sunset. Probably just into Tooting). But it ain't finished and so it's time for them to down tools until I'm back from the trip that I haven't even had the chance to think about up until now.

So now it seems like an appropriate time to remove building work thoughts and stresses from my already over-loaded brain and fill the gaps it leaves with thoughts of my wonderfully decadent twenty-three day Californian road-trip which is now tantalisingly imminent.

I mustn't worry, it's simply a road trip. What could go wrong!?