Thank goodness we are in the cottage and not renting a gite somewhere, otherwise we would be beginning to worry.
The electrician decided he would rather wait until the plasterer is on site, which should happen in the middle of January. And the roof over the bedroom and garage will be replaced (weather permitting) at the beginning of the month.
In the meatime, we have chosen and ordered the kitchen. We've been more adventurous than we were in the cottage and have gone for a high gloss grey (or do I mean taupe?) for the units. We debated whether Vita's claws on the gloss might be a problem, but since these days she can easily put both paws straight on the worktop and that is harder wearing we hope all will be well. She only reaches up to the worktop when we are out of the room and if we catch her in the act she arches her back, stretches and looks over her shoulder at us so much as to say: "I'm just doing my aerobics".
We have samples of the colours so that we can choose tiles. Bearing in mind my doubts about the tiles in the cottage, I'm not looking forward to this bit, especially as the colours of the units and the worktop change so much depending on how they are lit.
We have a provisional installation date - some time in April I think, but this will no doubt have to change. The owner of the kitchen shop cheerfully told us that one of their customers ordered a kitchen two years ago and is still waiting for the builders to finish so it can be installed. Gulp!
We did gently suggest to Monsieur B that we were hoping to have friends stay with us from Easter 2010 and that more progress would be appreciated.
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