Wow what a lovely day. We have had wall to wall sunshine (18 degrees) nearly since half past eight this morning. We have started to our pick olives, from two of our twelve olive trees. What a wonderfully soothing occupation (providing your living does not depend on it) We were down the bottom, picking olives this afternoon and the only sound that we could here, other than our selves, was the very occasional aircraft going over. The poor old trees are in need of a good pruning, so as well as picking the olives I was trying to prune a little as well. It’s a long time since I have climbed right up into a tree, but this is the only way of getting the very top olives, this despite our telescopic pruning poles. Two down , ten to go.
This evening we had a meeting with Chema (our architect). He has given us two complete sets of drawings and building instructions for the house, from which we can now instruct our builder how we want our house to be built. We must of course look these plans over carefully and then have a meeting with the builder and draw up a contract with him to tie down the building price, what will be included and time scale of the build. We will endeavour to move this forward next week, if we can.
At first glance the drawings are really comprehensive, and just what we want our house to be like when it is finished.