It does seem like they are going very slowly now...

I can show lots of progress; but since a week ago - nothing. They've disappeared.
Any road up, keeping to the positive, here you can see the inside insulation installed. Each panel is held to the wall by a couple of star shaped thingies. Then they are all sealed with tape. You can see all this better if you enlarge the picture by double-clicking.
The brick tiles then form the inner wall before they are plastered.
The picture here is taken from our bedroom looking towards the dressing-room, as a walk-in wardrobe is now called, apparently. The ledge in the ceiling is the extent of the old house and will be where the dressing room wall will go.

The other garage door.

That's the other door, not the other garage. The garage is 15m long, long enough for 3 small cars. It will contain the trailer, lawn mower etc. as well as our cars. The entrance from the road is very steep and very dodgy coming out virtually blind. We have therefore decided to knock through at the back so that we have a front and back garage door. They are knocking through today and then putting a lintel during next week so that it has good time to go off prior to the door being put in.  The wall is stone and I didn't get the impression that he was enjoying it.

Upstairs ceilings done

The plasterer has done all the upstairs ceilings and starts on the apartment tomorrow. Once that is finished he will start on the partition walls and the doubling of the external walls with loads of insulation. When he's done all that we will be on our way to being a seriously well insulated house.

Ceilings are good!

As you can see the ceilings are going in. I still find it a bit odd that they go in before the partition walls, and the partition walls go in before the underfloor heating, but, hey, who am I to question these things.
Had a meeting this with the architect and the inside doors and cupboards man. I asked the architect if end of February was still on. He said he thought it was "un peu juste". This means "No".