Traffic Jam!

The builders and the electrician arrived as normal this morning and began to get organised, but then we experienced a traffic jam.

In addition to the lad's lorry and Etienne's (the electrician) car and trailer, the Builder's Merchant's lorry arrived with more roof tiles and our 'fosse'....septic tank to you. This was then followed by the boss, Cyrille, with his digger on a trailer.

We're amazed by the size of the tank. We are obliged to have a 5000 litre tank because we will end up with 5 bedrooms. Sue and I looked at it and thought that it would take us 5 years to fill it up !!!

Despite the fact that it was typical March weather with rain off and on all day, Patrick spent the day levelling our 'courtyard' before he starts to dig the hole for the 'fosse'.

Meanwhile, the electrician has started to connect all of his wires to the Consumer unit. He says that he hopes to have them all connected by tomorrow evening, which will make it a lot easier to work in the Boiler room!

Yesterday we were out all day investigating ideas for the 'Interior Designer'. Whilst we were out, the builder made the steps from the stairs passage down in to the kitchen, and we are pleased with the result.

Today, JP was carrying on with the first of the 2 windows in our bedroom. He says that it will be finished tomorrow and then Friday he'll start opening the second one.

That just leaves me. I've been plodding on with the plasterboarding in the kitchen. And all of this was under the watchful eye of the 'Clerk of the Works'.