Enjoy lockdown they said. Appreciate being furloughed they said. Take advantage of the glorious weather they said. Sit in the garden, watch the flowers grow, listen to the birds sing and the bees hum. ENJOY THE PEACE they said!! So I did. I bought some plants (online) and some sunloungers (thanks Amazon) and sat back. Then , two weeks ago builders turned up at the house next door but one to do a mammoth house extension (12 weeks). Total knock down of their back followed by rebuild. But at least the builders finish at 4.30 and don't work weekends. Then on Thursday builders turned up at the house next door to me (the other side). It is a big corner house which had been allowed to fall into a state of total disrepair and neglect. A local family bought it in September and apart from sometimes leaving their cars on the drive we haven't seen them at all until Thursday. Now they have decided they need the work done and to move in asap. Builders were there till late Thursday and Friday. Banging and drilling and hurling bricks, wood, debris out of windows and doors into the garden ( no skip) . My DH was not pleased when they turned up yesterday (Saturday) and said to them that he hoped they wouldn't be at the house today , Sunday. They said they wouldn't. And finished at 6.30. Peace , we thought, before the building resumes at both sides tomorrow. At 8.30am today tree surgeons arrived at a house just round from ours. It is now nearly 2.00pm and they are still there. Sawing (huge chain saws) , shredding and engines and generators roaring. The noise is horrendous! To say nothing of the fact that at this time of year whatever is being cut down may well be full of birds nests and squirrels dreys. Tomorrow they will have gone and both sets of builders will be back! Peace ? What peace?
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