Use Of English Test 13 – A Hectic Time

Dear Trevor! I know it’s been ages since I wrote to you but I’ve been very busy ever sincebeforewhileevery time we decided to move into the country. The house in the village is not quite ready soonstillyetalready but as you can imagine sinceasforwhile the last few weeks we’ve had to chase up builders and plumbers and we’ve yetnearlystillalready got a long way to go.

It’s been such a long time since we did startstartedhave startedstart to work on it. I’ve almost forgotten how long it’s been exactly. We must have started it about seven years beforepreviousagosince and we’ve stillalreadynotyet spent a small fortune on it. We are yetalreadystilllonger living in our rather cramped flat where you had been visitedvisitedhave visitedwere visiting us a few years ago but it begunbeginsis beginningbegin to get unbearable and we will look forwardhave lookedare looking forwardlooked forward to moving out. We are still rushingrushedbe rushedrush around from morning throughtillandinto night and it’s been particularly hectic inwhilefromduring the last week. Anyway, whileduringinfor all this was going on Karen fell and sprained her ankle which was the last thing we needed!