By 12.30 today:

  • the guy we thought was coming yesterday turned up at 11 with his bobcat and moved in 15 minutes two loads of soil that would have taken us hours of hard labour to shift
  • the dishwasher repair guy who was supposed to arrive before noon turned up about a quarter past. He fixed the dishwasher the builder had told us wouldn't work by turning it on …
  • the person we expected at 1030 to discuss the garden still hasn't been heard from