He's a domestic god

We've nearly got the self catering under control - various mixtures of pasta, rice, fried chicken, eggs, omelettes, cheese, odd bit of veg etc - even managed to find some baked beans to have on toast for that special treat - 'skinheads on a raft'! Earlier on, the site canteen would open early for us and the ladies provided a hot drink & toast but we've managed to get our act together and get our own sorted before we leave the hotel. Cereal, porridge, fruit juice, fresh fruit, bread & jam being the choice. Lunch is in the canteen, and we generally go for the chicken if its on, everything's always with mash and sometines a small side salad. We've both tried the stews and other cuts, but we haven't a clue what it is, the dinner ladies say its 'meat'. Still can't work out sometimes if its beef, pork, horse or whatever - hence the preference for chicken!!!
Favourite though is the borsch - thick red onion soup with other stuff floating in it, or a thick noodle & potato soup with a couple of chunks of bread. So we're getting our protein and most of our five a day.

Work wise, we are gradually getting a little bit more from our Russian hosts to keep us occupied. All have been very welcoming but still a bit guarded as to why we are at the site, which has no hidden agenda whatsoever. Its still early days and we're still building trust - an experience that was similar to that at Shatura & Surgut. As expected, the language barrier is the biggest issue when wishing to get some info or explain something. So far, only about 30% of the info we require (manuals, drawings) has an english version available or provided with the contract, so working out how things work is challenging - our interpreter is o.k but struggles a bit with some of the technical concepts and terms, and is not always available when we need her (she has other duties but always puts them off to help us out, so we cut her a little slack). However, one or two of the shift lads do have a very basic understanding of english and can answer one or two descriptions of things.
Control Room screens etc are all russian - we can access english text control screens, but signal identifiers, descriptions & alarms on the software screens are russian, as is the text on the 'windows' menus. Might get some screen dumps of windows menus from Killingholmes T3000 to use as a crib sheet and hope the items match up!!!
Might be working out how to use the Banya out the back this weekend - it can only end in tears!!!