Six months into the renovations and I have so much dust in my lungs I have had to give Stefano an ultimatum.
‘You’ve got to finish by Christmas,’ I told him when he arrived with his men the other morning, ‘or I am going to have to start spending the budget, such that it exists, on emergency healthcare.

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