[JasonB]

No, I'm doing up my parents' house, which I inherited after they passed away. It's taking a lot longer than expected, partly due to the difficulty in finding good tradesmen, partly because there is a lot more work to do than I anticipated, also because our builder fell off a scaffold and was out of action for several months, the flooring company were incompetent, and the ground work guys started messing us about.

I'm only about an hour's drive from home, so I could make it back more often, if it weren't for the fact that I'm also looking after about twenty chickens, two cats, and a horse livery business. That's not a huge amount of work, but I need to be here first thing in the morning and last thing at night, and there are no days off.

I moan about the situation, but the truth is that I am very lucky, and once the house is completed, the rent should allow us to retire fairly comfortably, so I just have to keep reminding myself of that.