It's F-Day plus 35, and I'm spending a few hours working in the habitable part of our flood-damaged house while I'm "between" two AirBnBs.
The dog, who doesn't normally get to come upstairs, is sitting with me on the landing. Except she also wants to keep an eye on what's happening downstairs.
The result? Her back legs are sitting and her front legs are standing as she peers blepfully down the stairs.
One last outing for the dog and I along the Cotswold lane we've been living on, before we move to different temporary accommodation tomorrow.
We're hoping soon to no-longer have to move every week or two, but we're not at that point yet.
#note #dogs #walking #flood2026
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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!
Today was a long day. Between commuting (the kids to school from our distant flood-evacuation accommodation), work, childcare, insurance wrangling etc., I was pretty tired when I got back "home". So I came in and lay on the floor.
At which point the dog decided I was a pillow.
#note #dog #dogs #flood #floods #flood2026 #insurance #photo #school #houses
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While cleaning up/assessing damage following our house flood, I finally found a lost digital stylus I've been looking for for a couple of months.
Unfortunately it's been sat under the water line so I don't know yet if it survived. But it's FOUND, at least!
(Look at me, finding ways to stay positive!)
#note #flood2026 #flood #floods #pens
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Dan Q