Maintenance...

There were a number of small maintenance jobs to be done after we'd moved into our apartment, and we expected them to be done in the first week.  Some of them were.  Others, inexplicably, took much longer.  In particular sealing up a gap between some tiles in the kitchen where ants were coming through.  This sounds like an easy job; certainly at home we'd have done it ourselves in 5 minutes.  Here things are much more complicated.  It took 5, yes FIVE, separate visits from maintenance to get this simple job done.  The first three people just came to look at the problem.  Then a man came who had the tools for the job but was told he wasn't allowed to do the work until the landlord had agreed the quote so he went away again with both of us disappointed. Lastly, 2 men turned up together to do the work.  We have no idea why it was so complicated, or indeed, why it took 4 weeks to arrange...

On a brighter note, Baby Alex is 3 weeks old today.  He's becoming quite a chubby boy and seems content most of the time...