The DIY continues apace and am starting to worry I may be the noisiest flat owner on the South Coast …

I have met a few of my neighbours who had seen the TV programme (embarrassing) and everyone seems really nice. Which is a relief. Just to be safe, I dropped chocolates round to my immediate neighbours to apologise for the noise.

I didn’t want to fall out with them in the first week as we knocked down the wall and fireplace and covered the hallways with a thick layer of dust from sanding down the walls.

next time put down dust sheets

I had a bit of a result with the freeholders this week. I want to move the kitchen to the other side of the room to make a nice open-plan space (no idea where the money is coming from for this but will worry about that later) and I had to write to them with a plan of what I wanted to do.

I was expecting a fight on my hands but they said yes which I was so pleased about. Had to pay them £200 but I guess the lease papers will need to be updated, so fair enough.

I wasn’t expecting that to be so easy! Getting a sky dish on the roof past the building agents is proving a little trickier! No-one can see a dish on the roof but I have been told it is a conservation area. I don’t think the person who has put a sky dish up on the roof without permission is going to be very happy with me for bringing this to the managing agent’s attention. Oops.

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