I can't quite believe

• that our building work has started.
• just how many cups of tea I have made over the past week.
• that my builder is called Bob (though he does not wear orange checkered shirts).
• the sight of four girls on Sunday morning climbing on diggers and dumpers in their pyjamas.
• exactly how our garden looked before this project began.
• how quickly the holes and trenches appeared.
• that I am already having to think about where to positon radiators and lights.
• how long we managed to ponder over whether to reposition a door (and in the end didn't).
• that every night Bob reconfigured pipes and electric to enable me to use my washing machine.
• we have another 16 weeks to go (if things run to schedule).