So the contractor, Macky, was supposed to go to the house on Monday to fix the leak with the heater. But apparently the key we gave him didn’t actually work and because hubber’s blackberry was dead the last few days, we didn’t get the message when the guy said he couldn’t get in. Lovely.

We can’t meet with him today or tomorrow because we have to drive to Munich for a family funeral. But we are going to meet him at 10 am on Friday now to hopefully fix the problem and we will be hoping that too much water hasn’t collected and done damage to the wall or anything else.

I’m perplexed because I was pretty sure I’d tested the keys before and they had worked…so it could be entertaining to see if there were some operator difficulties or what. And Macky is also supposed to bring the bids for the rest of the work on the house so that should be very interesting indeed. Hopefully neither of us has a heart attack when we see the bid but so far he’s been fair so we’re still optimistic.