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Jul. 9th, 2009 12:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hathycolThere are workmen outside my house.
They first rocked up on Monday morning, drilled out a bunch of the paving slabs dirctly outside of the gate to my front garden (luckily we have a side escape on my little house on the corner), set up some temporary traffic lights, and left. This morning - my first lie-in for just about forever - they turned up again. I assumed, not unreasonably, they would perhaps do something crazy like fill in all the empty pavement and enable me to leave my house through the front gate.
Instead, they have drilled up more pavement and are now presumably on a lunch break, as there are a pile of tools and mini JCB diggers outside of my house.
The thing is, today is bin day. What with Katie and Susie having both moved out since the bin was last collected, the wheelie bin is completely full and I need it emptied. I had nowhere to put my wheelie bin without lugging it over the road or a signifitant distance down the road, so it's sort of in a odd angle near my house. I hope it's been collected. Otherwise I'll have to complain to the council about the fact that I have been essentially blocked into my house with absolutely no warning and because of this my bin hasn't been collected. As I don't actually pay council tax I feel a bit bad about having to do this.
Seriously, though, I do wish they'd just fix the road. And allow me to have a proper lie-in, for once. The worst part is, the drilling is so loud and near to my house that it makes the house shake, so I need to leave it today. The car is still being a pile of fail, however, so despite the fact I really want to go into Dundee, I don't think it's safe to drive it in as it keeps on doing the stalling thing at a frankly alarming rate. The obvious answer is to put my car into the garage and take the bus, but that feels like just a little bit too much effort. That said, I know I'll go mad if I spend the entire day in the house.
It is, basically, a bit of a conundrum.
They first rocked up on Monday morning, drilled out a bunch of the paving slabs dirctly outside of the gate to my front garden (luckily we have a side escape on my little house on the corner), set up some temporary traffic lights, and left. This morning - my first lie-in for just about forever - they turned up again. I assumed, not unreasonably, they would perhaps do something crazy like fill in all the empty pavement and enable me to leave my house through the front gate.
Instead, they have drilled up more pavement and are now presumably on a lunch break, as there are a pile of tools and mini JCB diggers outside of my house.
The thing is, today is bin day. What with Katie and Susie having both moved out since the bin was last collected, the wheelie bin is completely full and I need it emptied. I had nowhere to put my wheelie bin without lugging it over the road or a signifitant distance down the road, so it's sort of in a odd angle near my house. I hope it's been collected. Otherwise I'll have to complain to the council about the fact that I have been essentially blocked into my house with absolutely no warning and because of this my bin hasn't been collected. As I don't actually pay council tax I feel a bit bad about having to do this.
Seriously, though, I do wish they'd just fix the road. And allow me to have a proper lie-in, for once. The worst part is, the drilling is so loud and near to my house that it makes the house shake, so I need to leave it today. The car is still being a pile of fail, however, so despite the fact I really want to go into Dundee, I don't think it's safe to drive it in as it keeps on doing the stalling thing at a frankly alarming rate. The obvious answer is to put my car into the garage and take the bus, but that feels like just a little bit too much effort. That said, I know I'll go mad if I spend the entire day in the house.
It is, basically, a bit of a conundrum.
