Ramonage
This morning we had a visit from a chimney sweep. According to French national law, everyone’s required to have their chimneys (heater flues, etc.) cleaned once a year. He didn’t speak any English and, since we were just waking up after having celebrated Todd’s birthday with a few rounds Camera Roulette, we had a little difficulty figuring out why some seemingly random guy was at our knocking on our door early on a Friday morning.
He ended up bringing in a colleague to actually do the cleaning so I carried on a little conversation with him. His extent of English knowledge is confined to “Do you speak English?” “girls” “boy” and “table” - which we taught him after he asked for one to set the cleaning equipment upon. We were all a little worried about getting scammed or charged too much, but apparently these guys were legit, and we’d be breaking the law if we didn’t get our flue cleaned. So let it be known, we’ve got a clean chimney!