Trauma of the builders

We've just had the builders in to repair the front stairs that were deteriorating badly, and finish off the back landing that stopped when the previous builder had a stroke.

When the builders worked at the front of the house Kramer spent time trying to peer under the door to see what was going on - but the doors were deadlocked to prevent anyone from walking out and plummeting down the hole that had been the landing, until it was covered and the stairs completed.

The front of the house being almost completed, the builders moved to the back of the house. Now that is the way Kramer enters the house - up the stairs and in the back door. For one day he had to be carried down the front stairs into the back yard for toilet purposes, and then returned to the house the same way.

Kramer was not impressed. He didn't like this lack of freedom. Once he ran to the builders and annoyed them by jumping up on them as they sawed and hammered. And inside the house he was quite agitated. He couldn't settle.

The job is almost completed - at least he's free to use the back stairs on his own and go up and down as nature calls, but while the builders finish the job, he'll be a little more confined and I expect his agitation will remain.

Only a few more days and we'll have the work completed and the house will be ready for the painters. Now that could be a challenge!