The two guys delivering my much-fêted pillow also brought some other bits I’ve been hoarding in the UK. They did a good job overall, though at least one of my Fragile – this way up boxes, containing an irreplaceable wall light, arrived the wrong way up. I pointed this out to them as they unloaded the vehicle and was greeted by blank expressions. After 20 years working in relocation I see that removals men still have no sense of orientation. Hopefully my packing stood up to this abuse
They made the normal compulsory comments about the size of the house, the state of the house, are we going to turn it into gites, etc, and had a bit of a dig about ‘the French’ while they were at it. They were just trying to make polite if opinionated conversation
Among the goodies was one of a pair of leather club chairs that we can’t fit in our living room at home. I had them place it in the empty salon, where I have now successfully tested it. It rocks
Then it happened…
‘Now this’, said one of the blokes, himself a Brit living in France, ‘is a man’s room. That armchair there and a big TV on that wall, that’s all you need’ He kindly expressed through mime the approximate size of his enormous imaginary TV and indicated the wall where I should put it, between the elegant, if very shabby, French doors
I really don’t think so
Poshbird with Passion 
Oooooh, great chair.
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that’s why it’s always wise to let women do the home decoration. I moved into a man’s flat and still suffer the consequences. Only thing making up for it, that otherwise, he’s great….
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I guess no-one’s perfect. I hope he has reasonably good taste!
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hmm…. with foods, yes. 😉
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Hahaha! Oops!
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Your final sentence made me hoot! Poor chap – no taste, no style and presumably now swilling warm beer in his man-chair in front of his enormous flatscreen. Prejudiced? Moi?
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As if moving weren’t annoying enough itself! 😉
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Did you then give them a big mug of strong tea with three sugars and a few digestive biscuits? Or is that just British builders?
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Big TV screens are a man thing for sure!
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