OMG what have I done, can I cope with all this? The builders started on my new bathroom today. The mess is soul destroying, my house is 113 years old and the plaster is crumbling, so it has all been stripped back to the brickwork. Tomorrow is replastering, then the floor has to come up for new pipework. After that the new suite, lighting and radiator go in, followed by tiling, new floor and painting. Put like that it doesn't sound much but living with the dust, the noise and only having a bucket to pee in is bad enough but typically mother nature decided to play a joke on me and after 20 days of menstrual bleeding she decided to let rip with clots and heavy flooding. I want a bath or a shower and I am having to settle for a stand up wash at the kitchen sink Plus I really don't feel like having a houseload of unknown men when I'm in this state.

I feel horrible, I have to hold things together but when this is done I'm retreating under the duvet for at least a month.