Live: The appliances are coming

I got so many requests to live blog the delivery of the kitchen appliances and bed that I couldn’t say no (well one from a fake address but I can’t be too picky).

12h00 I have arrived with lunch from the local boulangerie. Kitchen appliances coming between 14h00-16h00 but bed anytime from now till 17h00. Now we wait.

12h06 I realise I don’t know how to turn the electricity on. Mild panic.

12h15 Busy myself with some unpacking

12h56 That didn’t take long.

12h59: First worrying moment. I get a text saying my packages have been delivered. Where? What?

I nip down to the street to check that no-one has left a bed and mattress by the door or with the boulanger- they haven’t. 🤷🏻‍♂️

13h01: Lunch, but it is interrupted by….

13h29 And when I say lunch I mean…

14h00: We now enter le creneau for Darty to deliver les blancs.

14h25: Darty will be here in five minutes. I can’t turn the water on either – hoping they know the trick with these French gizmos.

14h52: We now have electricity and water and our first appliance is in!

15h00: The fridge is in – but the door opens the wrong way from the one we ordered. Ce n’est pas grave but we need an extension lead to plug it in a bit more discreetly.

15h20: Next is the hob and the oven and within an hour it is done.

15h25: Of course there are a couple of issues – the hole for the hob is too big so it is not secured and the hole for the oven is too small so the door doesn’t open when it is all the way in.

Someone is coming next Wednesday to fix them both. Now we wait for the man who is going to assemble the bed.

16h34: Where is my TaskRabbit assembly man?

17h44: He is here but yet to get on with any assembly

18h02: He is now cracking on with it.

18h15 And just like that he was off. Leaving me to position the bed correctly, unwrap the mattress and put it on.

18h25 And we are done. Hope you enjoyed this exciting afternoon. A few hiccups to correct next week and work out how to keep the electricity on. But it is coming together.