text: Then help arrived just in the nick of time in the form of one of my best friends, Deborah. She happened to call in just at the right time to see how we were getting on and found us looking thoroughly miserable and desperate! After giving us a lecture about making ourselves ill she went away and reported back to Colin and Ray about our sorry plight. (Colin and Ray were the guys who did a wonderful job of digging out the floor). That evening like a knight in shining armour, Ray turned up with his machine to shift the 2nd delivery of stone into the barn which was absolutely wonderful except we realised we still didn’t have enough!! Never mind, Ray had offered to come back again the next evening when we would have another delivery and we were so very grateful. However the next morning we had a call from Ray to say he had been rained off of his job so he would come straight over and get started. As if this wasn’t wonderful enough, our neighbour, Alan, came to lend a hand and then Deborah and her husband, another Alan came by, booted up, and ready for action too. From the point of view of getting the work done it was wonderful, but what was even better was knowing that so many of our friends were prepared to drop everything at short notice and really help us out. We are so grateful and are well aware that we owe everyone some very big favours…!!!!