The Builders are Back!

They arrived yesterday morning.  France takes the view that Christmas is a one day affair and then everything gets back to normal, but even so, to have them back on site first thing on a Monday morning is amazing.

Mind you, progress yesterday was one step forward, two back.

We decided that we wanted to have the lounge colombage repaired with stone work below the wooden beams, as in the dining room.  The stones in the dining room are large square blocks, so I was a bit surprised to see that the builder was putting in quite small stones.  I was even more surprised when I walked Vita last night and realised in the torch light that the small stones had been taken out of the wall that holds back the flower bed in front of the terrace!

Anyway, complete misunderstanding.  Monsieur G arrived with large stones this morning for his workmen and the small ones are being removed.  Hopefully they'll be put back where they came from!