Tuesday 30 March 2010

We are well motivated now we have a plan to execute, even if it is raining.....

We have been at the mercy of the French Telepathy Phenomenon today and it never ceases to amaze us both how we can take information at face value and still not question it. Some weeks ago we asked a hire company to quote us on the hire of a mini digger and I specifically asked for a weeks hire, we went through an accumulation of huffing and puffing and tapping of calculators until it was agreed that if we deliver the digger with his trailer then return the trailer straight away but come for the trailer and deliver it back a week later then it would cost 150 euros.. Call me stupid, call me anything you like but a weeks rental is a weeks rental and 150 french quids is a hell of a deal but he did ask for cash and made us promise to keep it quiet so how was I to realise that the 150 Euros is for a day's hire....I should have known that. What a blow, so now the digger project is taking a new format, quick digging and quicker digging to hire it for a day only, but not from our wide boy. We are going to our local hire centre who will deliver and charge us per 8 hours worked and we can do the 8 hours over a couple of days so much more of a manageable scenario. It all kicks off on Friday and we have a folder full of info taken off the web on "how to drive a mini digger" so as to be well prepared. I have a friend coming to lunch on Saturday to give me moral support and a bit of a hand if we should need to run behind Mike clearing up. The weather today has been so April, it is a joy and then a complete misery as we find ourselves dashing between the weather squals. We are well motivated now, we have a plan to execute, even if it is raining.....

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