Builder Avoidance Techniques

1) Take a trainee "hearing-ear" labrador for a long walk.
2) Visit the local Civic Amenity dump.
3) Go for a dip in a freshwater pond fed by the River Fleet.
4) Take a hatchet to the over-grown bush in the front garden.
5) Sit through 150 minutes of
Johnny Depp's latest shiver-me-timbers shtick.
6) Have a shower at a neighbour's house.
7) Read some Murakami short stories.
8) Listen to a new Sufjan Stevens album.
9) Contemplate starting work on that Great American novel.
10) Watch all the pretty girls go by.


and what it looks like now