Hurrah! I've finally moved into my Diddly Squat mansion. But why did we order nine beds?
By Jeremy Clarkson (Sunday Times, Nov. 21)
Even by my own dizzying standards, last week was busy. Due to the fact I hadn't read the small print in my contracts, I was legally obliged to whizz about on a promotional tour for my new book and for the next instalment of The Grand Tour.
And on top of the cheery chats with Jonathan Ross, Chris Moyles, Zoe Ball, Steve Wright and everyone else with access to a microphone, my cows needed impregnating, and I had a day's shooting with my neighbour and a book signing at my local bookshop. Plus the puppies needed their second vaccination, my car needed servicing, I had to do a photoshoot for The Sunday Times Magazine and there were three newspaper columns to write. Oh, and on Wednesday I was moving house.
It's claimed by the weak and the unbusy that a house move is the most stressful thing you can do — apart from dying in a car crash, presumably — but I reckoned I had all the bases covered.
As the builders were supposed to have finished at the end of July, I'd had plenty of time to do all the necessary shopping.
I'd done a thorough trawl of Peter Jones to buy all the kitchen and bedroomy things I'd need, and in addition I'd been to various house sales and to a place called Lorfords, in Tetbury, which is two gigantic hangars full of a billion things I wanted. Including an 8ft-long model of a French railway station.
I'd even spent some time with a local and quite brilliant taxidermist, from whom I'd bought a fireguard full of brilliantly coloured hummingbirds, and a stuffed lapwing. And over the past few months everything was delivered and neatly stored in various barns waiting for the Big Move Day.
Obviously, as the house was being built by builders, the wait was long and littered with broken promises. But eventually they said they'd be finished in mid-October, and then, when they missed that deadline by a mile, they assured me that if I gave them just one more month, they'd definitely be done.
The month was up on Wednesday, so the moving men turned up to find that the staircase banister wasn't fitted, the wallpaper man had gone on holiday and both the joiner and the electricians had gone Awol. Not since Schubert has the world seen anything less finished. But, as someone once said, the only way to get builders out of your house is to move in. So that's what we did.
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