Where's a desert island when you need one?

 I had another restless and uncomfortable night, although it was a bit cooler it still wasn't cool enough to sleep comfortably, and my shoulder was really painful, I just couldn't get comfy no matter which way I lay.  The lack of sleep this past week is really beginning to affect me.

This photo was taken from my kitchen window this morning:-

The builder in his digger working just the other side of our fence, he's digging trenches, you can see just how close it is to us.  The neighbour and his brother are also out there, shovelling earth into wheelbarrows and tipping it onto the huge pile at the entrance of the garden, they're all shouting to each other to be heard above the din.  It's just so bloody irritating, we cannot sit or work in the garden with all that racket going on.

I know I'm finding it all the more irritating because I'm sleep-deprived, but noise has always been my biggest bugbear and it's been relentless these past few days.  I'm in danger of it really beginning to affect my mental health, so I've shut all the windows at the back of the house, closed my bedroom curtains and sprayed my room with a calming lavender and chamomile spray.  I'd get husband to take us all out somewhere but I know it'll be busy (Fridays always are, being one of the Butlins changeover days) and he'll moan anyway, he never really wants to go out anywhere, unless it's something he wants to do.

That desert island is looking very tempting today......

I've got my first (and probably only, if previous experience of physio round here is anything to go by) physio appointment on Monday, then Hayley my cleaner is coming later.  Tuesday my new fridge is arriving, one of our neighbours said she'd like my old one (there's nothing wrong with it, it's just too small) as hers is on the way out so I'll need to empty the contents into my big cool box and give the fridge a good clean.  That'll all keep me occupied for the first couple of days.  If the noise next door continues later in the week, then I will encourage husband to take us all out....if he really doesn't want to (and he can be downright stubborn and obstinate nowadays) then I'll go on the bus by myself.  Thank goodness the builder won't be here all weekend, so we'll hopefully get a bit of respite.