A difficult day with David as Ian Masters, called by with his plans as if by arrangement to see him to discuss his project and I had to approach them after 20 mins and politely ask them to return to work. Ian understood and Dave took offence. We also found a serious wiring fault and had to get Ray Lond-Caulk back to work late before we could come in to relax and eat our tea.
With the building work scheduled to be finished and the last few days' scramble to get things done, I was finding things altogether too much. I was up early and running about after everyone again, ending up measuring and estimating for the final batch of materials. I had just about finished this when I had a bit of a difficulty with my main workman. His next client, Ian Masters, called by with his plans as if by arrangement to discuss his project and the aggravation for me was that he took time out with the other workmen waiting and me paying for his time!
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Five, ten and then fifteen minutes passed by as they carried on chatting and then after twenty I had to approach them and politely ask them for David to return to work. Ian understood but Dave took offence which was a pity as I had really been the one with a grievance. Lots of work getting the materials and then problems this evening as we find a serious wiring fault and have to get Ray Lond-Caulk here and work with him until late before we could come in to relax and eat our tea. Just two days' effort left and one of those without Alan so that I worry that we will not get all the urgent work done.