Emotional Blackmail

Having said that he was going to come in all weekend and finish off the outstanding work in Denis' apartment, Chris didn't show at all and the date of his departure for the USA to shoot innocent animals draws ever closer.

After weeks of asking, Debrah finally sent Chris an emotionally charged email and, as expected by me, he responded immediately and is now finally getting to grips with the last few outstanding bits of work. It's a shame that it always has to come down to the wire and needs unnecessary coercion, but there it is - this job should and could have been finished two months ago.

Otherwise it was a normal working day for us both - Debrah was on her computer and on the skype to the London office and I spent a good three hours getting all the ironing cleared as well as the usual breakfast and shopping and business admin.

This evening Debrah experimented with endive - the notoriously difficult to cook with French/Belgian vegetable - and with some success. She put together a lovely endive, pear and roquefort salad and a baked endive and anchovy vegetable dish that we ate with some steak haché and a tomato salad - get us being all continental!