Bank Holiday, what Bank Holiday?

No chance now of opening before the bank holiday, so instead I'm pretending it isn't happening. Kevin came down for the day today and was a fantastic help with the cleaning. We've wiped walls, floors, ceilings, shelves.... and generally sorted things out.

Last week's problem was the amount of time it took to paint the shelves, and the incredible five days it took for the first ones to dry (strangely those I painted with the 2nd tin of paint dried much quicker). This week it has been plumbing. First the pump was pumping constantly (which it isn't meant to do), the plumbers managed to fix that, but in doing so noticed that the tripping of the electrics, which I'd thought was the fault of the pump, was actually an entirely different fault on the water heater. A leak somewhere that necessitates an entirely new heater, obviously not available straight away and without hot water...well, we can't open. Still it gives me some time to perfect things like the shelf labels and try to work out how to position the scales and cheese slice.