CHAPTER 8
Jeff adjusts surprisingly well to doing nothing, considering that being idle doesn’t come naturally to him. He’s been writing songs since he was 11, in bands since he was 14, on the road since he was 19. His brain never switches off even when his body stops moving.
Jeff spends the next few days, even after the builders arrive, in the sitting room but mostly up in the attic. The attic may be an odd place to spend time in, but it’s a large space, and we have a small gym set up in there, despite the low ceiling making it a little awkward, as well as piles of our belongings still in boxes. The remainder of the unpacked stuff suddenly appears where it belongs. The builders don’t complain about Jeff’s presence.
We spend our evenings buying furniture online and planning what the musi
