I watched over the return of the conservatory builders today to screed the floor and helped them get over some difficulty over supplies and then took the family to the Village Hall ‘November Fayre’ after our family Beefeater lunch and then finished up at a well-attended RSPB film and family night
I slept particularly soundly after last night’s bedtime frolic with Diana. I was a bit slow to get up this morning, missing breakfast with the others and I was a bit disoriented by the delivery of ‘today’s’ newspaper which was actually yesterday’s Financial Times. I was half way through reading it before realising the news was a day late!! The builders arrived in the form of the floor laying subcontractors who laid about 5 inches of screed during the day and tidied up the conservatory as a result. The trouble was that they were quite messy in Willow Close; leaving piles of sand and semi-mixed concrete screed everywhere. The job was longer than they thought, needed more material, and I had to lend them £20 plus to go and buy another half a cubic yard of sharp sand and two bags of cement in view of the volume required. I watch their progress until lunch, when we had to collect Daniel and his friend Gary Skinner from St Neots and take them to lunch at the Beefeater. Then on to the Village Hall ‘November Fayre’ where each Little Paxton Hall user had a stall and raised money for both themselves and the Hall together by selling things.
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I queued up with Debbie and Della for the £0.20 visits to see father Christmas at the Playschool Grotto; then bought all manner of things to support the endeavour. Home to tea and a couple of hours clearing up the worst excesses of the builders, using some of the excess screed to pave an area by the conservatory. At least they had done a good professional job! This evening, we went to a well-attended RSPB film and family night with quizzes and competitions that Debbie liked. At both of today’s functions, Michael Pope was helping by collecting money at the door and he will be doing his electoral chances a lot of good next May as a result. Home late with the girls rather grumpy. Daniel had Gary Skinner and Steve Hicks came back to The Hayling View today and they watched video films in his room and enjoyed them before Gary stayed the night afterwards.