Two months down, here's some observations on progress and life in a building site. Darren, Chris and Bogdan finished their 2025 efforts by pouring footings for the back kitchen wall, then they swept and cleaned the paths, all in a horrible rain storm. They were so efficient that they left the site before we could give them the Christmas presents we'd put aside for them. The heating is confused and kinda broken. With the house split in two, and the thermostat in basically the coldest, draftiest area of the house spaces are either swelteringly hot, or cold. The thermostat gets cold during the night, bringing the heating on in the bedrooms and making us sweat. Plus, Keir's radiator is broken and won't switch on, whilst Ula's radiator is broken and won't switch off. On average, everyone is fine. The hot water system is also kinda broken. For no good reason we can determine, at some point over Christmas, whilst no work was going on, it stopped delivering r...