Latest "progress"

It seems to be a case of 'two steps forward, one step back' at the moment.

David spoke with M. Torelli (the plumber) yesterday, who sounded as hacked off with Jean-Marie/T+B as we are; they have agreed between themselves that David will call with our next planned trip several weeks in advance, and M. Torelli will schedule in two days [the second day for "just in case" purposes] to finish the work here.

David did have an email from J-M last week, but it just sounded like the catalogue of excuses that he's come to expect, with no real information.

I, of course, don't know what's in the mail, as T+B [did I post that they lectured David on "politeness" in one mail?] do not have the courtesy to include me on any of their correspondence! David reckoned it was insufficiently important to reply to, so I missed out on seeing it as he cc's me on his response.

The thing that has got me going "that bloody man" today, is the housing for the loo - it was supposed to have a gap between the side and where the shower screen will go - it's all clearly marked on a sketch dated 23 September in J-M's handwriting...

So why is there no gap?!

We were just finished cleaning up the water from the snow that's melted in [NOT too impressed with a watertight structure that's NOT!], when I noticed that.

So we have to delay M. Waeber from coming on Monday to finish the shower tiling, contact M. Mekki to get M. Kadir to come and undo/redo more of his work, and as David says, this might be the thing that finally has us telling T+B to f*** off!

If we have to manage everything ourselves, at least we wouldn't be trusting someone to do his job who seems incapable of getting anything right.

AND we'd save ourselves a shedload of money & hassle!