Floored, and half a kitchen

Tilers come on schedule and take 3 days to do the tricky and time-consuming job of extending the old floor out to the new wall. The new tiles we found that were the right size and material have small lugs on the base, which gives the tiler a problem because they are going to sit slightly proud of the old ones. We tell him we are prepared to live with that, but he can't cope with an imperfect result, and spends hours with an angle grinder removing the lugs from the tiles before they are laid. The meeting of old and new looks much better than we anticipated, given that the old tiles have darkened and are not exactly the same colour as the new. Final grouting of the tiles happens on Wednesday, we hold the Memorial Service for my brother in the afternoon.
Next morning we head to Tassie for much needed R&R. On the tram on the way to the bus on the way to the plane we receive a call from the kitchen people, asking if they can deliver the kitchen early! Of course we say yes, provided the builder an organise access. When we return the following Tuesday we find the kitchen cabinets are not only delivered, but are in place, albeit minus doors and drawer fronts. We leap out of bed early for the next two days in anticipation of kitchen completion activity, but nothing happens until Friday, when a couple of blokes come to fit the sink (which was in the house all the time, but they didn't ask and we didn't think to tell them as we thought they were just going to drop off the cabinets, with installation happening later).
So once again, we are looking forward to next week, when we really should see some action: doors and drawer fronts from the kitchen guys, and builders, plumbers and sparkies back to fit stove, sink, dishwasher, range hood etc. And hopefully connect up the stormwater - we have lakes in the back garden each time it rains.

Half a kitchen