Still waiting

WE SEEM to be permanently waiting for workmen, and a tiresome business it is, too.

We can't really move on with the kitchen until the electrician has fitted the new lights, and the joiner has put the finishing touches to the units.

Meanwhile, we're having fun with all our new appliances.

The old dishwasher had three programs on it, the new one has fifty-two!

We've just about mastered the main oven, but the microwave is still a mystery to us; My Good Lady is planning on doing us some jacket potatoes in it in a day or two, and it promises to be quite an adventure.

All the while, too, we're wandering around the room like a pair of nomads and trying to remember where we put this jar or that bottle and feeling that the place is not yet quite ours, won't be until the job's complete.

So, we wait, and wait...