INVENTORY OF WHAT WAS WHERE BEFORE MONDAY
1 × Nissan Leaf (silver), facing northeast, charge cable coiled on passenger seat
1 × Holden (red, older than the marriage), handbrake questionable
1 × Camper (cream and brown, containing: one sleeping bag, two spider sacs, a 2019 Weet-Bix box)
4 × tyre tracks pressed into wet grass, filling slowly with rain
1 × fog bank, 800 metres deep, patient
3 × headlight beams, unspooling into nothing
1 × husband in gumboots, reversing by feel
1 × rectangle of lawn now cleared, mud-dark, ready
0 × carpet
0 × new walls
0 × the life that will happen in those rooms
All items logged at 19:00, Sunday, visibility poor.
The builders will not remember any of this.