The scaffolding has arrived today in preparation for the painting of the main house. This should start in about 2 weeks, and will take 2 weeks to complete.
We had a detailed discussion with the two painters today, and looked at some color scales and charts. I believe that it it does not matter how many charts you look at, you really need to find a house painted in the colors that you like. We have found such a place in Sissach.
The tile layer has just about completed the tiles around the fireplace, and these are looking very nice indeed. He can now turn his attention to the front steps.
This afternoon the glass screen for the main en-suite was delivered. I will try to get this installed on Friday to enable the tile layer to complete the tiling in there.
Everyone who visits the house tells us how nice it is, but we are not sure if they are just being polite or what. Reggie and myself are just too close to draw a conclusion, and Raphael does not want to visit the house, as he has been dragged there so often.
One of the ongoing sagas for us has been the purchase of of Miele Nespresso coffee machine. Easy task I hear you say. We thought so to until we purchased one. It arrived and much to our dismay it had the wrong surface finish (Aluminium) and a no return policy. We decided that we would sell it on the internet after we had found another one in Stainless steel. We found a stainless one. It was sent to us, but the firm made a mistake as it is the wrong model, and they do not have the correct one. So now we have 2 machines.
We then decided to change the Alu front for a stainless front ...cost...800CHF cripes...
Miele told us to find a broken machine with a stainless steel front. And this week after much trawling of the internet we have. Now we have 3 machines. We will send the wrong model back, we will replace the alu with the stainless from the defective machine, we will install it, and enjoy our coffee. The remainder of the defective machine we will keep for posterity.
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