a few last-minute hitches 13/05/09
Countdown: three days left before we open. The kitchen has been cleaned and scrubbed and is ready for use. We are still going back and forth to the Catering outlet for knives, glasses, placemats and all the things that are coming into our heads at the last minute. I unscrewed all the shelves in the jumbled mansarda (attic space above the estaurant) and carted them down to the storeroom and the younger cugnata and I screwed the huge metal strips back together, making sure we put them all back in the right slots so the shelving won’t be wonky. A very finicky job. We have at last unpacked the new dark wood chairs and tables which have been stacked up at various strategic points and washed off the dust. My husband and his friends have finally after two weeks of sawing and smoothing and sandpapering, painting and varnishing, managed to fix the wooden strips to the bar and it is now looks like a proper bar, with the long mirror opposite framed in the same blue-painted planks. We’ve had the ...