New Doors & No Sky

For two winters now I’ve been trying to get new doors hung. Mine are ugly and one is so warped that it won’t shut. It’s the one to the porch, which leads straight off the living room, so during winter it blows a gale through there. Paul’s has a dodgy latch so won’t stay shut and mine has a handle that comes off when you pull it. The remaining four are ok but if I’m changing three, I might as well change all. Nobody really wants mismatched doors, do they?

Last winter I was let down by several handymen who said they’d come and measure up and give me quotes but who never arrived, and because I became ill just before Christmas and was weak for quite a while afterwards, I gave up. This year I actually got two handymen to come and quote me for them, chose one and arranged for him to come and hang them. He was going to source them so there’s was nothing else I needed to do. Except that he didn’t turn up. When he hadn’t arrived by 10am I called him. No answer. I then sent a text. To this day he hasn’t replied.

Then a few weeks ago Mum’s gardener told me that he also does handyman work so would come and sort me out. He’s a lovely bloke who’s never let Mum down and turned up for measuring exactly when he said he would.

The doors were duly ordered and arrived today. The only trouble is, he can’t come now until next week so I’m stuck with seven doors piled on top of each other, on the floor in front of the telly. So now my Sky box doesn’t work. The signal from the remote doesn’t reach it.

But at least I’m getting closer to actually having doors that shut and handle that doesn’t come off. I’ll just have to manage with the one channel until they’re hung. It's on ITV so I hope there's something decent to watch on it. I can't get the TV guide up, though, so it'll just have to be pot luck whether I get to see the decent stuff or not. Just as well I’m not a telly addict and that Paul has one in his room. And I'll probably get a lot of reading done :)

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