Shhhh… only whisper it

I heard from ‘an independent third-party source’ yesterday that whereas SDE24 originally said that the extension of the electrical network onto my land was programmed for ‘week 47’ ie mid November, I can now actually expect a contractor to come on site to carry out the work on 18th October. This is very good news as I installed my ‘coffre de chantier’ (my own temporary electrical box and meter) some weeks ago and the road and the position of the new permanent ‘coffre’ to which my ‘coffre de chantier’ will be connected have been marked out since the first week of August.

So now I already have water on site together with the materials to lay the base for my proposed new store in which to keep my ride-on mower and other tools and which I’ll also be able to use as a workshop, albeit a small one, as it will measure 4.1m x 3.1m when completed. The weather forecast is still very favourable and hopefully it will be possible to get the base laid by the end of this coming week.

And talking about the end of this coming week, on Friday I have a meeting scheduled with my house builder. I’m hoping that this will be to finalise where I want to position services, electrical sockets and the like, to identify a date on which work will commence and for me to hand over an initial cheque to get work underway. If that is so, I really will be able to see a light getting brighter at the end of what has been quite a long tunnel.