Despite the fact that Abu Dhabi is a hotbed of construction and probably has the world's largest concentration of cranes, they seem to do things backwards there (soon to be "here"). The latest report on the metamorphosis of our villa from its present state of filth to something habitable by mid-August is this: they're painting it.
You might think that this is fantastic news. That's because you live in a place where painting is done last. Not in Abu Dhabi! T/here the tradition is to pick one's way around the rubbish left by the previous lot of piggies family and paint the spaces in between. Once the paint job is complete, they will presumably move on to those niggly little details like repairing the plumbing and air conditioning. And maybe (just maybe) after that, they'll send in a crew to get rid of the crap that was left there by a pack of people who appear to have had less evacuation notice than the residents of Pompei. But there's a bright side:
At least they stripped off the wallpaper before they started painting.
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