The world may be suffering from pandemic woes but this is of no interest to Sophie who spends a full ten minutes minnow fishing. This is carried out with her usual ineptness. Refraction is a concept she doesn't understand and which allows the minnows to remain 100% safe. With a final yelp of irritation we leave. This morning the family divahas tried both the screaming at the minnows technique and the standing still and glaring at the minnows technique. Neither worked.
Angus would also like to emit a yelp of frustration. Yesterday, the builder arrived as promised . He informed me that he doesn't think he'll have time to dig out the foundations for the pergola. Instead he drops off one of his colleagues to lay the stone tiles on the concrete slab outside the French doors. Angus points out that the pergola was supposed to be up and ready nine months ago ' We've missed the entire summer' I add with more than hint of impatience.' Haven't we all ?' replies the builder. Angus can think of nothing to say in reply to this so storms indoors to vent his frustration on 'The Font'. 'The Fonts' view is that we can hardly expect to use the pergola in the winter so why get het up ?. There is something irritatingly sensible and logical in this view.
This is our favourite hotel in Rome. It's still closed. I hope it re-opens : https://www.raphaelhotel.com/Welcome-to-raphael-Hotel-in-rome.htm
Ventilation : https://99percentinvisible.org/article/tilt-turn-ingenious-three-one-window-security-breezes-egress/
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Oh dear. So it turns out that that "will the builder come?" was not the right question to be asking....
What Sophie would do if she actually caught an unsuspecting minnow?
'The Font' is right of course, you probably won't use your pergola over the winter months, but it's still frustrating that the builder has treated you with such a lackadaisical attitude. Is there no-one else you can use?
My windows are all double-glazed tilt and turn, and were fitted some 20 years ago when we had the house built. They are very effective.
Well it might be best not to have builders or laborers about at the moment for you guys.
We may be one if the few countries where weekend activities are still as normal bars, restaurants, cinemas and cafes all open and full.
That kind of extended curfew would be pretty extreme for a countryside village, I hope it doesn't come to that. In Japan, we are still muddling along, with the numbers staying fairly stable. The government here seems to me to be overconfident - they continue to expand a travel subsidy program that encourages tourism and are starting to open up again to foreign visitors. People here are careful to wear masks and keep socially distant, but I wonder whether it is really so different from places like France and whether it will really be enough as it gets colder? Meanwhile, Cherry turns 12 tomorrow.
Hari OM
Had a giggle at the tilt-n-turn windies being such a novelty; have them in the Hutch and they are excellent.
As for the 'curfew' it has struck me that it may indeed be necessary for even your rural places... if Parisians and other urbanites keep insisting on migrating outwards. You will be aware that a five tier method of 'curfewing' is being prepared in Scotland and the first question that came to me was - how to stop central belters from emptying out to the highlands, where restrictions will be less? It's all so cumbersome and dependent on some very dodgy reporting... YAM xx
Happy (tomorrow) Birthday, Cherry!
-Otto and Osa
I guess it would be politically incorrect to just hire the German billionaire's builder...
The windows are called oscillant-battant in French. Love them.
I keep seeing lots of Spanish, British and Parisian license plates. The cost-benefit of continuing tourism vs. the continuing the pandemic seems to be awfully high for those not in tourism.
Talked to family in the U.S. One said his employer has "rules" encouraging masks but they are not enforced--masks on in one part of the factory because the boss there required it, whereas the adjacent part had a boss who thought masks were unnecessary and my relative was the only person to wear one there. He is in one of the hottest outbreak areas. Restaurants full. Inside--it was about to snow.
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