The water isn’t running in our newly-installed bathroom tap. Jean, our neighbour and a plumber, swings by to take a look at 8pm while we’re having dinner. I’d spoken with him a few days earlier, and he’d said he’d be there when he got a free minute, so it wasn’t as though he was coming unannounced. Showing him the problem tap, he says to me in French, ‘Pas de problème!’. I leave him to it, going to get my glass of rosé. A few moments later he comes out asking if I have...

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