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[NickFitz]

Odd innit, how much noise someone with a hammer can make.

It seems to get everywhere, too. These places are very solidly built, which can make it hard to work out where such sounds are coming from.

I'd assumed it was coming from the flat upstairs, as it seemed to be from that general direction. At one point, though, I was wondering if it was from next door (the other side to the doctor's) on the same level. Then I went out into the back yard and out to where the cars are parked, and I thought it was from the doctor's, though from a different position it seemed like it might be coming from the old stable at the bottom of our back yard, which occasionally gets used as a workshop by the managing agent guy.

I can only assume the last of those was because of the sound bouncing off the end wall of the next street, which is also a very tall terrace starting beyond the stable area.

It was only when I was outside at the front that it finally became obvious that it was coming from the doctor's roof.

All very confusing

[zeitghost]

Client A offices are currently enshrouded in scaffolding as they replace the flat roof, windows and cladding.

Apparently they can do the windows while we are in the offices

20 years or so ago, they did that here.

Cold, apparently, was incredible.

It being done in the winter.

[zeitghost]

It seems to get everywhere, too. These places are very solidly built, which can make it hard to work out where such sounds are coming from.

When I was a little lizard, I used to think there was a railway line up the hill from my house coz of the noise of coal waggons rattling together.

It was, of course, the noise of the railway on the other side of the valley being reflected by the buildings on the other side of my road.

And psychodoggie's barks are reflected multiple times off the tower blocks in Swansea.

[zeitghost]

Byeeeee.

[NickFitz]

Client A offices are currently enshrouded in scaffolding as they replace the flat roof, windows and cladding.

Apparently they can do the windows while we are in the offices

When I was at Leicester Uni in the early 1980s, they spent a fortune fixing the windows on the Engineering Building, which had won architectural awards (and even featured on a postage stamp) when it was built about twenty years previously.

They've just announced they're going to spend millions fixing the windows again. I suppose they at least lasted thirty years rather than twenty this time

[mudskipper]

Feeling a little blue this evening (melancholic, not pornographic). Lack of decent sleep catching up with me I think.

Estate agent frenzy tomorrow. Deepest joy (tm).

Need to schedule in some "fun".

[NickFitz]

Feeling a little blue this evening (melancholic, not pornographic). Lack of decent sleep catching up with me I think.

Estate agent frenzy tomorrow. Deepest joy (tm).

Need to schedule in some "fun".

November London drinks?

It'd serve as a warm-up session for the Xmas do

[mudskipper]

November London drinks?

It'd serve as a warm-up session for the Xmas do

Sounds like a plan!

[NickFitz]

That's the new Mac ordered

Now I know it's coming, I'll have to get the bookcases and desk sorted out ready for it - clearly, putting myself in this situation is the only way it's ever going to happen

[zeitghost]

Well, as might well be anticipated, the plumber turned up about 10 minutes after I'd left to go to work.

Ho hum.

We shall try again next Monday at a similarly daft time of day.

I think this time I'll drive to work & then come back.