Christine's the best!!!

First of all, again my apologies that I don't write too often these days. It's got everything to do with this bloody wireless internet connection over here. During most of the day, the connection stays on for only a few seconds, or minutes at most, after which I have to restart. Probably because the wireless network is inadequate to accomodate all clients. Very tedious...

But here we are. Also I'd like to mention that our oldest cat, Canelle, has indeed returned quickly afterwards as we thought. She just wanted to go outside but she's never too far away. We trust her enough to let her out whenever she wants to. Our other cats, and especially our Norwegians, is a different story and we want to keep them indoors for the time being. They're too young and inexperienced and might wander off too far. But when we'll finally have moved into our new house, they'll have all the outdoor space they'll need for themselves and we won't have to worry anymore about traffic or cat-unfriendly people.

But I actually wanted to talk to you about Christine. Followers of my old blog may remember that together with that bastard of a geometer, Danilo, we also got into trouble with Nezio, the contractor. He's a close friend of Danilo's and then again wanted to continue the works and then agian not. So we decided to stop the cooperation and hire somebody else, much to his frustration. He sent us a final bill of €39.000,-. A lot of money for the work we still hadn't paid him for. So Christine put it under a magnifying glass. Eventually it turned out to be full of things that Nezio had double- or overcharged. And most important of all, he had "forgotten" about the arrangement he had with Christine, i.e. that all the many hours of hard labour that she had done would be subtracted. This made her even more determined to reduce that bill as much as possible. Eventually, she brought it down to... €25.000,-. Much more reasonable. Now we only have to see how Nezio will react. But given the fact that Christine has calculated everything thoroughly and that in fact nothing can be said against it, Nezio will probably not have any other choice. And in the end, Christine's still been very kind as she only counted €9,- for every hour she worked and she didn't even count all of the overtime she did. More than reasonable, don't you think?