Steady as She Goes

Yesterday was a typical day where something required effort, and it finished with us going out with friends for dinner.
I arose early which is typical.  We were expecting the builder of the granny flat to come with a few others.  He has been off sick (he went to hospital) and was wanting to make up for lost time.  He duly arrived about 7am with others and worked in the granny flat.
I was also expecting a visitor about 8am to take some mature hedge plants we had.  It was win win really.  We wanted them gone and he wanted them for his yard.  So it was worth the effort to remove them.  Our plan is to open up the “bush garden” at the front.  I had planted ot out with trees in the hope of alleviating mowing.  I did that but it is way more work than mowing would have been!
He did arrive about 8am and set about removing the plants.  I gave him a hand.  Boy was it hot.  It’s funny, but looking at the vacant ground one would not know that there were established shrubs there that had been removed.  We ended up getting rid of three of them.  We had removed three previously and there is one to go.  He also has a trailer so we could put the plants to save in it along with any vegetation to go to the dump.
After that work we had a coffee together.  He went home and I got some lunch and then had a shower and sleep.  The builder had gone to another job he was finishing up.
I was glad for the rest and work up and got up in a hurry wondering what time it was.  It turned out it was only not long after three.  I decided to make a coffee and while doing that I saw a van go past and wondered if it was of here.  It was.  He was delivering tiles for the granny flat.  He had phoned to say he was coming.  That was while I was asleep.
He duly delivered the tiles.  While he was doing so he said the lawn mower we had sold him worked well.  I had no memory of him getting it but he was happy.  Good thing really as he was bigger than me.
In the evening Merril and I had dinner with friends of ours.  One was from England and is going back tomorrow and the other was her son who lives here.  We knew them in table tennis days and have kept up our friendship with him via get togethers every now and then.
It was a good day and both Merril and I were zombie like at the end of the day.  We had enjoyed good food and good company.  The next day heaps is planned.