The ocean wind cold on our lips

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Earlier this year I learned that George VI had to be talked out of personally showing up for D-Day, a brilliantly medieval conceit of which he was fortunately disabused before he could challenge Richard III's record for last English king to die in battle.

If it turns out that anyone did the same for the plumber for whose sake I got up on forty-five minutes of sleep to escape the house before he pulled out our bathroom ceiling as scheduled, someone is going to get buried under a car park.

ETA: The plumbers did arrive and spent several hours dismantling a chunk of the ceiling, so I feel justified in my flight, but also exhausted. It is far from clear when our ceiling will be remantled.

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So it does! And the Queen was all for it.

Which also feels characteristic of her: "I won't leave without the King, and the King will never leave."

I hope to hell they get that bathroom done and you get your house back.

Thank you. We do technically have it, we just don't have . . . all of it . . .



In view of all the exposed wood and insulation, I am skeptical of the plumbers' assertion that it is perfectly safe to shower in the bathroom as is, but I don't know our options if this situation is not very shortly resolved. I washed my hair last night out of paranoia, but spatch is used to showering each night when he comes home from a shift at the theater and reasonably so.