Are we there yet?

The short answer is "No", but it's been an interesting week.
Monday: 
Good news: the plasterers arrive, as scheduled, to do the final polish of the plaster framing of the skylights. They look good (the skylights, not the plasterers, who came while we were both out).
Bad news: first, the painter rings to say he doesn't think he'll be starting until next week. Later in the day I receive messages from the kitchen people, one of which tells me that they can't get the right length drawer runners. I fret over this overnight.
Tuesday:
Good news: Talk to David at Zeev Kitchens and find that with a minor alteration I can have drawers that are 50mm longer than originally planned - more storage space, must be good. Especially as I feared I might have to settle for shorter. Another call later in the day indicates that our kitchen is in production, which gives us hope of seeing it sooner rather than later.
Bad news: Tiler comes, and seems rather daunted by the problems of a) matching the tile colour b) fitting new tiles into the old floor pattern. He phones a friend while I am on a Skype conference call, but by the time I finish he has gone, so I still don't know what if any conclusion he came to.
Wednesday:
All quiet.
Thursday:
To our surprise, painters arrive at about 7:00am, for which we are ill-prepared (having gone to sleep at about 2:00am). After months of blokes called Dave, Dave, Chris, Chris, Tony, Damo, Jason, Simon, Mick, Mick etc we finally have some real Aussies: Armando, Giuliano, Saba. In a day they manage to get a coat of undercoat or primer on most of the things to be painted.
Friday:
Two of the painters return and take advantage of a fine day to do most of the outside painting, plus another coat on the ceiling inside. Makes a big difference to the look of the room - see below.

From the outside looking in.
In the foreground on the left you can see the kitchen shelves that Dad made for me over 30 years ago, which the painters are re-varnishing prior to them going back on the kitchen walls.

 From the inside looking out.

Exterior view - eaves and fascia now painted to match the colour of the doors. Eventually the brickwork on the left and the wall under the windows on the right will be rendered to match.

We've even had them do the exterior of the garage/office, a project that's been on our To Do list for years, but never done. We had planned to just repaint the garage door to match the old colour scheme, which was the traditional Victorian "blood and bandages" combination of oxide red and deep cream. The painter informed us that this was very old-fashioned now, so we've gone with matching the colours that are being used elsewhere on our house and our neighbours' houses, and we're pleased with the effect.