This blog is shutting up shop for a couple of weeks. We are off on a short break, partly so the boys can get together with their four adoring girl cousins; partly because we are about to be subjected to a home invasion. The building works so far have kept to the outside of the house, so that Carl and I, two of the least mess-tolerant human beings of the modern age, have been able to pretend it hasn't been happening. No more. The new construction is almost at lock-up, which means there is nowhere for the builders to go but indoors: we will be losing the kitchen, the laundry, and quite a few hitherto external walls. What we will come back to we do not know. Once the screams have subsided, I will let you know.
