Not in plan

Best laid plans. The Gorse Fox would start the day with a plan of the activities and tasks to complete today. It started well with the Gorse Fox completing a backlog of admin.

Then a number of calls were exchanged with the coffee supplier and their distribution company. Surprisingly this seemed to do the trick as the coffee finally arrived late in the morning.

From there on things went down hill. A quick refresher - the Gorse Fox was chasing BT for phone and Broadband since early August. The development has been in place for a couple of years. Promised for 3rd Sept it slipped to 10th Sept and then to 17th - now BT tell the Gorse Fox that works won't complete until 3rd Oct and they will then re-book. The Gorse Fox is not pleased.

Next on the agenda was to install some bathroom furniture. Should have been easy. Oh no. In order to get the towel rails to be sturdy it took three attempts to fit, remove and re-fit. Eventually Gorse Fox had to use hollow-wall metal fixings that open up behind the plasterboard. Then it was clear that towel ring was on a solid portion of the wall - and that needed another fixing type. Finally the robe hooks were screwed to the door, and the screws bent as they went into the hard wood. These needed drilling out and then unscrewing with molegrips. Several trips to B&Q punctuated the day... and the final trip got some screws that sorted out the robe hooks in a couple of minutes. A job that Gorse Fox had expected to take an hour took most of the day.