A Funny Thing Happened...........

........but you will have to wait until we meet you to fill in the details because apparently it is illegal, although we are looking forward to roast venison!!

I enjoyed yesterday working with John and JP. JP no longer calls John, Monsieur John and I am Soos or La Patron instead of the formal Madam or 'your "femme", John'. I like people who take the micky out of me. Apparently everybody now knows that JP is helping us, including Cyrille who seems to have given it the OK. It will be a great help to us and to JP who needs the money.
The builders are having a week's holiday next week but JP is going to work for us all week.

John spoke too soon the other day when he said that I liked the windows. Yes I do like the replacement windows but I am not happy with the patio doors that have started to be fitted in the archways (they do not follow the profile of the arches) .

I expressed my displeasure on Thursday when the fitter was putting them in but John said I would have to put up with them. However over the weekend Nadine had her twopenn'th (although Jean Jacque told her to shut up, it was none of her business). JP then joined in and the result was that we had a visit from the owner of the glaziers today. We had spent the weekend trying to come up with a solution and fortunately the glazier will be able to make the modification.

John had some rest and recuperation today putting up more of his plasterboard. I routed out the joints in the stone work which is to be left exposed in the groundfloor bedroom. I am getting really excited now because things are beginning to take shape and we (she means Sue) are having to start considering final decoration, which I imagined was months away.

Since Friday we have had a very large hole in the wall and roof where a new window is to be built in the salon. The builders left on Friday forbidding us to go anywhere near this area as it was unsafe, and it did look it. Well today they have nearly rebuilt the window. The wall was very bowed in this area and very crumbly so they have had to strengthen it with lots of cement.

And now a message from our sponsors........ or something like that.

Miaow (hello), our Auntie Jenny has been complaining that we haven't had much space in this blog, and so we thought that would reassure her, and all you other friends who know us, that we are surviving in the midst of all of this chaos!!

The service has deteriorated a lot lately, and sometimes we have to go and find Mummy and Daddy to remind them that it is tea-time.

However, we get our own back by waking them up a couple of times a night, (at least Diana does!) just to keep them in line. We'll have to start some serious re-training once we get back into our 'home'.