Ramanth, the people living on the top floor have been allowed to extend upwards, so I lost my loft room.

Catnapper, I have honestly been thinking of giving him 2-5 mg of those for the first few days - until he gets used to them walking up and down. At least the huge lift is far from my flat. That is one noisy machine!!

Lut, as long as Fister won't be walking around on the scaffolds outside! Sus's cat Bella did that one time, she could get Bella in quite easily, but I doubt Fister will cooperate!

It will be darker, no doubt, but hopefully they'll take it down before next summer!

I'm actually thinking about covering the one window, which faces the narrow street, up totally, that is where most of the noise will be for a long while, but what do I use?