Badger Towers

Thursday 25th March

After my wood chucking yesterday I find my back hurts and I’m having trouble moving.  You don’t get this problem working on the internet.

The underfloor heating pipes are going down, clipped into place by the plumbers.  I quickly wrap the time capsule in a plastic bag and stick it under the floor before the heating pipes go over.  Once the pipes are in there’ll be a screed poured over the top and it’ll be sealed in forever (or until the heating breaks down). People of the future who decide underfloor heating is a daft idea will rip up the floor and marvel at our piece of blank paper, since I suspect budget laser printouts will probably not last the distance.

The kitchen is still lined with ugly wood panelling. The manifold can’t be fitted to the wall because there’s no plaster behind these panels, so a makeshift bit of wood provides a fixing.  We still need three more manifold outlets for Kitchen 1 & 2 and Hallway circuits.  They will be arriving ‘by Tuesday’, organised by a man in Northern Ireland from an Italian firm.  I think “by Tuesday” probably means ‘eventually’.

The kitchen is full of crap, cement mixers, bricks, the appliances we were hoping to save and a brand new boiler.  Everything is in a mess. But the good news is the electrical wiring is starting to go in upstairs. This pleases me.  Moving the carpet to access the floorboards upstairs we find a green foam underlay which has turned to dust.  Carpet sucks.  The floorboards are in great condition though and Mrs Badger has plans for polishing them up.

I take the car to the garage to get a new exhaust. While I’m waiting I sit having fish & chips by Hinksey Lake while my contractors do my bidding. I quite enjoy it.  I should become a manager.

Just as things are winding down for the day, Gary the Plumber slips on the doorstep and half falls through the insulation layer in the hallway.  He’s not impressed, but Mark the Plumber thinks this is the funniest thing he’s seen all week and is still chuckling as they rev their transit off into the sunset.

Found today:

Pants

Technically not found, but placed today: A time capsule.