Elation and frustration

Elation! On Thursday afternoon a truck arrived with two large packages of and the nine roof trusses. Wow the house was actually arriving! About 8 am on Friday morning a small truck came up the driveway and Graham the builder commenced work removing the boxing from the concrete and unpacking the timber. In short order he had the frame of one wall standing up. I helped to stand a second wall a little later and the house was beginning to take shape.
Frustration! As Graham was nailing the third outside wall together I commented that the window openings did not appear to be correct. In fact one bedroom had no window in the south wall at all. This is not what we wanted. We then looked harder at the other walls and discovered that two of the external walls and the internal walls were wrong. A series of phone calls to the supplier unearthed the fact that we had been supplied with a standard “Cragieburn” house and not the modified design that we had ordered. No one is telling us who actually made the error, but construction has stalled after half a day’s work while they sort out how to remedy the situation.
Anyway Mr. Chirpy is happy. Mr Chirpy is a thrush who for the last month or so has been serenading us from the 1metre height of the fence between us and our neighbour. He is now perched on the top of the wall frame and singing happily. For a relatively small bird he has a very loud voice and when the weather is good sings for most of the day.