The Travels & Adventures of Flog-It Removals.

A few hours a day have been spent since Sunday working up at a house on the hilltop here getting it ready for a brief visit by the owners. After a summer in hibernation, the central heating boiler wouldn't wake up so we had to get an engineer in to kick it and now at last there is some warmth inside. The last guests actually left early because they were cold, if only they had told us instead of leaving a note in the guest book on departure we could have got it fixed. More time has also been spent cleaning the pool, once, twice, and again... These strong winds at the moment are just not good for people who like their pools looking nice through the winter. On top of that there is the mess in the garden to tidy up and two Oak trees that have to come down because they are now deceased. I got the chainsaw out for the first one on Monday and then as I stepped towards the tree, slipped on an oily railway sleeper used as a step, dropping the running chainsaw and falling against the top step which is a rock and giving myself a bruised left bum-cheek. Luckily the chainsaw survived so the job got finished but the other tree can wait until we need a little more wood for the heating in our house. A lot more gardening and a redecorating job needs doing before the next clients arrive at Christmas and hopefully my silicon around the shower basin has worked so we won't get another flooded kitchen this week. It's all go at this time of year isn't it?