Day: 4 March 2026
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In sympathy for our flood situation, my sister baked and posted us a big batch of her fantastic raisin & oatmeal cookies.
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Dan, a white man with a goatee beard and blue hair, sits next to a large box of cookies, about to eat one.
I've eaten like six of them already. Turns out I stress-eat. Who knew?
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F-Day plus 19
Nineteen days after my house flooded, causing extensive damage on the ground floor, the insurance company has finally accepted the claim and is willing to pay for our temporary accommodation in the meantime (a few days in a hotel, a few days with friends although that's not paid-for, four weeks in two different holiday lets), although we're still waiting for their thumbs-up on a proposal for a ~6-month let of a house to live in while our floors are replaced and our kitchen rebuilt and whatnot.
Meanwhile, yesterday a surveyor came around and looked at all of our walls. Everything still feels like it's taking a very long time. I appreciate that insurance companies are a maze of bureaucracy and procedure, but from "this side" of the table - living and working out of strange places, never really feeling "unpacked" but without it being a holiday - it's all a bit of a drag!