Cue angels with trumpets, please

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The glazier showed up today, to remove a pane in the lounge and replace it with one with a cutout sized for the catflap...about 6 weeks after initial contact with them. Not quite a Monty Python cheese shop sale, but a near thing.

Cat 'owners' reading this will appreciate just how much this change matters to our household.

Robert stayed home to supervise but had to run to work before ensuring both the 'in' and 'out' worked for our microchipped puss, so I get to set up and test the features this evening.

We've already established that fresh batteries are needed - stale ones cause it to error.

More interesting was chatting with the local-boy glazier, who says a big house stood where our block of maisonettes now stand, and he thinks our shared garden is on the old pond where he used to swim. He seems to remember problems with the building early on, because of subsidence; if it really is built on a pond it's no surprise!

I'm pretty sure this block is over 50 now, so hopefully it's slid as far as it's going to without prompting from tremors or something.

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Yes, to all except I don't know how to tell if it's reinforced or not. But yes.

And we're on the ground floor, in a part of the building that is 'only' 1 storey.

I guess NZ will be producing and graduating a generation of geologists and really quake-savvy builders and engineers...