My mother in law gave me a book by Suzanna Clarke for my birthday last June. "A House in Fez" is about building a house in Morocco and, in many ways, I have greatly empathised with the misadventures that Clarke finds herself in when dealing with decorators. She writes how a carpenter worked on her house for one day and then left to continue on somebody else's, making it difficult for Suzanna to get another to continue the work, thus making sure he had as many jobs assured as possible. I sympathize in that my tiler laid one terrace last Monday and disappeared into thin air.
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