… will be resumed as soon as possible. I’ve been down south in the Aude for the past fortnight helping out my friend Val with the installation of her new Ikea kitchen. This is the first Ikea kitchen that I’ve ever fitted and I’ve not been too impressed by it but I’ll say more about that some other time. Things also take at least 50% longer to do in France compared to the UK because of the time it takes to to-and-fro to the local DIY store that is then frequently out of stock of the simplest item meaning an even longer trip to another store, and I also think that the quality of many French hardware and plumbing items leaves much to be desired.
But anyway, I expect to be finished in the next couple of days or so – I say ‘finished’, but in fact I’ll have to come back again in a few weeks time to actually finish the job off due to Ikea’s policy of not holding ‘essential’ consumables needed for any install in stock and thinking that a 2-4 week delivery delay is OK when you’ve already started an installation of one of their kitchens.
People like me come to live here in France because of the lifestyle here, but some aspects of the French lack of business and consumer ‘nous’ can be infuriating from time to time, I have to say 😉
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Thanks Russ, be even better if it was flyable over here. We’re not getting weather as bad as you are but the rain and dull skies are getting me down a bit. That’s one of the reasons I went south to help Val with her kitchen. I’d only have been sitting around at home getting more fed up and it was nice to have a change of scenery and a bit of company 😉
good to see you back mate 😀