My father’s ambitious plan to build his won conservatory, orangery or summerhouse is back on. The whole of the country is struggling to survive with the snow and all my dad is thinking about is building something so that he can enjoy summer nights. I suppose when I think of it that way it does makes some sense.
He has started sending away for brochures and arranging meetings with sales people to discuss the in and outs of adding whatever structure it is he will decide to add. At the moment he seems to focusing on either one of these conservatories or a self build conservatory like this. Then if you ask him at a different time he likes this type of summerhouse or a one of these summerhouses.
I honestly thought at the start of all of this that he was joking about this, I figured he was doing to wind up my mother. The idea might even have started out as an attempt to wind her up. It might even have been an attempt to wind myself up. I realise now that he is being serious. He is definitely throwing himself into this particular project, he also seems to expect the same level of commitment from myself. This is the bit that really scares me. I definitely believe that he expects the two of us, with limited help, to build whatever one he chooses. I honestly don’t know how hard this is going to be. I would love to think that it would be fairly straight forward process, I realise though that it is very unlikely that it is going to be easy. I just hope that he waits until the weather is a bit better before we have to start working.
