Well that was the week that was. The title will be easily recognisable to British people of our vintage. For all the others it was a trail blazing 60’s/70’s TV programme.
Monday Doug was in Albi auditioning for the lead in “The Invisible Man”.
Tuesday he was hired as the red headed Martian instead.
We spent Tuesday in Albi sorting out the timetables for deliveries & fittings for the house & finalising our removal.
Wednesday saw lots of progress with the underfloor piping for the heating & with the external stone work.
Thursday we had a productive day in Toulouse, using the train from Gaillac. Doug dropped off the one original document (and of course the obligatory translation) still required for his French Nationality dossier. The dossier will now wend its way through the various channels to Paris for a decision. Whilst we were there we mentioned that Louise still did not have a date for her entretien/interview.
Friday started well & then seemed to fall away rapidly.
Firstly Louise got her covid & flu jabs & we’re now both up to date.
Secondly Orange (Telecomms) rang to organise a site visit but we were too busy with our weekly building site meeting & he agreed to ring back.
Thirdly Louise got her entretien/interview date for December, which now means lots of prep for her before then, as if we didn’t have enough to do!
And the underfloor piping was finished.
The stonework at the rear of the house is coming on now. Soon be finished.
After that, chaos.
Our architects then told us that 2 of our contracted companies had just told them of a 2 week delay thus upsetting our recently organised date of 1st December for moving in.
For some reason they seemed to think that we could still go ahead & move into a bit of the house on 1st Dec, but with no kitchen, oven nor wardrobes etc. We very kindly explained to them why that wasn’t going to happen & just how furious we were. We’re still not sure that they understand!!
They have now retired to speak to everyone still involved in the finishing of the project & to let us know asap a definitive date for our removal.
Yes we had plans for Christmas/New Year which are now looking unlikely. It really is a case of time will tell!!!
It has seemed to us for some time that there was still an awful lot of things to do in a short time but they have continued to confirm 1st Dec for weeks now.
We are waiting to hear. Fingers crossed everyone please.