a pleasant view

 This little chap is being a star. The noise levels in the house right now are off the scale, but it won't be for much longer. It's just pipework being put in the right place, once it's done it's done and the very loud noises will stop.

Henry cat is shut in the kitchen and garden room with me - directly beneath the bathroom. Henry is pretty laid back about it all, when things are at the loudest I will make sure I'm sitting close by. He will look around, see I'm there and relax. If I went out and left him shut up alone I think he'd be petrified, but with me here he's fine.
Sometimes he gets really close to me, as in the photo. Not like him at all. He's definitely Violet's cat and she is the only one he'll head butt, purr for, or show any love and affection to. That said, he's been a Mummy's boy lately, and his favourite place to sleep at night is in between Bill and I. He forgot himself and gave me a half purr yesterday morning, then he remembered his No Purr For Mum rule and stopped. But I heard it!

At 5.30 this morning I was awake. I checked the time and thought I'd snooze for half an hour, then I heard Bill's voice saying 'do you think we should go for the smaller bath'. It's like when you hear the scratching of a needle on a record and things stop while you realise what you're hearing. WHAT???

The main discussions yesterday were about the bath, the size of it, the position, the taps, which at that point were going to be freestanding and not attached to the bath. It meant the bath would be forward quite a bit, take up more floor space and that meant the basin and toilet would be off centre and squished. A lot to ponder. Lots of discussion and phonecalls/emails later and decisions made, solutions found. So to have Bill throw this particular bath-sized spanner in the works was not the start to the day I expected or wanted.
But, as I said and will keep on saying, flexibility is the key to all works in progress. And so despite the fact that we were both adamant that we wanted the larger bath, it is being returned and the smaller one will be here in its place.
This is the time to make such changes, the early days when nothing has been plumbed in.
Photo taken at the end of Day 2 👉

With the electrician being here yesterday things have moved on nicely. I've even managed to request a little modification myself, and have asked that we have the plug sockets and switches outside the bathroom changed to the same brushed metal ones in the kitchen. Why not. I hadn't thought of it until I realised they would be changed, so might as well go for nicer ones instead of plain white.