“Avoir le cul borde de nouilles” I’m happy with this label.
And it’s great to be back en France again, even after that 15 hour drive. Not so nice to be greeted with a load of builders mess though. 
I’ve just been out in the garden armed with bin liners to try and do a spot of tidying up, then the heavens opened so I’ve dived inside for cover. We are all very tired and I don’t think much else is going to get done today. Why are builders so messy???? A response from Instagram suggested it’s because they get paid to build and not to clean up. But I think the best builders will do both.
So even after tidying up, I’m feeling vraiment avoir le cul borde de nouilles. 
The extension has now finally got its coat of crèpi and the only thing left to do is the covered area at the back of the house. So next summer we can just kick back and relax and really enjoy ourlittlehouseinfrance. So this all too brief break will involve lots of tidying up, repairing earlier builders disasters, planting lots of little cuttings that I have brought from the UK to improve the look of the garden and having several bonfires of Leylandi branches that we cut down at the end of the summer. Oh, and of course, some trips out and about, after all it is a holiday too.
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My Polish father who was a carpenter and could do lots work as well, always, always cleared up. He thought it a sign of a poor and lazy workman that did not.
My English plumber always clears up afterwards too.
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I also have a Polish contractor who takes great pride in cleaning up after any job. The French ones, alas, do not.
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I have never heard this expression before. C’est imagé… but I can’t quite see the noodle-butt luck connection!
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ooh buildiers, yup, some will leave your place all cleaned and tidy, but some of them won’t do the cleaning job, once paid, it is like they got the money, the work is done, the rest do it yourself grrrrr!
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