Architect Schmarchitect

The architect took away his drawings to correct various stuff, particularly the excessive electrical planning and he's been on the phone today endlessly to check measurements. Prompted mainly because El Presidente came up with another idea for where to put the kitchen, the size of the veranda and the like. Turns out he's got a few measurements wrong and so we've had to be dashing up and down stairs to the roof to double check. The snag seems to be that he's been working from the original drawings for the building, but that ain't necessarily how the builder built it. You'd have thought he would have checked all his measurements at the outset but I guess that's not the Cypriot way.

Meanwhile, the building regulations application has been accepted at the Town Hall which is something - they usually find something wrong with the application before they even consider the merits of the proposal. Any road up, Stavros at the Town hall advised that it would take three months for a decision but if we paid €150 it would get done in a month. As it happens, El Presidente did not have that much cash with her but he said "Oh, you can bring it on Monday." So we find ourselves in a moral dilemma: should we pay this official bribe to get it done, thereby conniving in adding to the delays for other applicants who haven't stumped up the readies. And just supposing everybody pays the extra €150; who jumps the queue then? Answers on the back of a 100 quid note please.