"Reception" meeting

We had a "reception" meeting this morning - to agree that everything has been satisfactorily finished.

I'm leaving it up to David whether he wants to sign the paper or not: nothing has been finished, so we can amend to say "except X, Y & Z" or we can just hold off signing till all is finished; so much easier to do that from another country!

Jean-Marie did the measuring this morning, so hopefully the plans won't be too far away.

He seemed a bit quiet this morning but I'm not sure if he was just mirroring my mood...

M. Mekki, I'm going to miss. He kindly informed me that I'm not their most difficult client, and that they do have one; hopefully he will tell me all about her later!

It's odd trying to think of the job as "finished" when we still have to arrange for the tiler, plaquistes, plumber, electrician, and builder to come back to complete their bits...

The joiner is going to let himself back in, and the carpenter's last task is being held over for the next phase.

So, all-in-all, nothing is actually finished. Perhaps this is why the French are a nation of philosophers: they can sign legally binding documents agreeing nothing needs to be done well before the stage where nothing remains to be done?

The nice mustachioed man from Milesi unloaded our pallets of stone this morning, so that's another thing off the "to-do" list, but as it was never really on there in the first place it's a moot point!

Very kind of him, and MUCH appreciated.