Chink of light?

That was what David emailed me this morning, forwarding a mail from M. Torelli giving us a start date of 11 April!!

[And before anyone asks, it WAS this year; that joke was getting seriously old before we'd hit Christmas!]

Coincidentally, that's just over a year since the work should have started!

With a bit of luck, he should only take two weeks (and so we won't be finishing in late May: exactly a year over-run from when work should have been finished, and 17 months after we started a project for two months work!).

We've had another bill forwarded to us [that was originally addressed to our attention at T+B] since David sent his letter to all the companies saying that T+B weren't forwarding bills, so please send them to us to avoid a delay in paying them.

So that worked!

That's five bills [that we know about] that they haven't passed on at all, and one [M. Mazij snr is a friend of M. Boyer, so maybe that's why his bill was treated differently?] that reached us months after they received it.

Obviously when Jean-Marie had marked it that it was checked, he meant "Oh, we couldn't be bothered to look at it", as the 5% that should have been deducted [some weird thing being held back for a year; we get to pay the balance a year later] had been added on!

Hmmm! But I'm busy not thinking of them; David's plan to just ignore them until work is finished, and Jean-Marie can't cause us any further problems, seems like a good one to me!