It’s usually a good sign when the builders show up on site early in the day. We had to be up early today because we were leaving at half past nine to play tennis The builders arrived on site at twenty past eight. They then sat around talking for a while, it was still quite nippy so they had scarves, hats and big coats on. At quarter to nine we heard ‘the rumble on the camino’ and a cement lorry arrived. Then another rumble and the cement pump arrived (see pictures). In another ten minutes they were filling the pile formers and as we left they were on about their fifth pile fill.
We had a fabulous game of tennis, Mags and Elayne are getting good and Allen is a strong player anyway. Two hours of playing tennis in glorious sunshine and then a lovely coffee nearby, what a good start to the day.
On arrival back at site after a little shopping at Lidl (about half past two) the site was deserted and all the piles were filled to the top including the cardboard tube formers for the veranda pillars. We are told that now we must be patient for a few weeks whilst the concrete cures. That’s going to be quite hard to do but we will try.
After the exhaustion of dancing last night and tennis this morning we are chilling out this afternoon and evening. Malcolm Pinder has just informed me that in West Yorkshire just now you are having a ‘hooligan’ of a wind. We do really sympathize with you and we would certainly NOT like to be in a caravan over there just now. I hesitate to tell you that the ambient today is just over twenty (mid to high twenties in the sun) and the door paint is starting to blister ;-))
We thought that we had another interloper in the caravan last night. When we came back from Lentisco’s at about half past twelve, we had just settled down in bed and Saffy started darting about and generally going a bit silly. We waited to see if anything came out from under the bed, but then he calmed down and we all went to sleep. Just to be sure, we have just hoiked the bed up to have a cautionary look but found no strays or homeless animals. We concluded that Saffy must have slept well whilst we were out last night and just wanted a silly half an hour when we returned, before settling down again for the night. He’s now getting very good at jumping onto us whilst we are asleep (it’s a hell of a shock sometimes) to tell us that it’s daylight and we should really get up and let him and Pippy out for their pre-breakfast stroll.
We had a fabulous game of tennis, Mags and Elayne are getting good and Allen is a strong player anyway. Two hours of playing tennis in glorious sunshine and then a lovely coffee nearby, what a good start to the day.
On arrival back at site after a little shopping at Lidl (about half past two) the site was deserted and all the piles were filled to the top including the cardboard tube formers for the veranda pillars. We are told that now we must be patient for a few weeks whilst the concrete cures. That’s going to be quite hard to do but we will try.
After the exhaustion of dancing last night and tennis this morning we are chilling out this afternoon and evening. Malcolm Pinder has just informed me that in West Yorkshire just now you are having a ‘hooligan’ of a wind. We do really sympathize with you and we would certainly NOT like to be in a caravan over there just now. I hesitate to tell you that the ambient today is just over twenty (mid to high twenties in the sun) and the door paint is starting to blister ;-))
We thought that we had another interloper in the caravan last night. When we came back from Lentisco’s at about half past twelve, we had just settled down in bed and Saffy started darting about and generally going a bit silly. We waited to see if anything came out from under the bed, but then he calmed down and we all went to sleep. Just to be sure, we have just hoiked the bed up to have a cautionary look but found no strays or homeless animals. We concluded that Saffy must have slept well whilst we were out last night and just wanted a silly half an hour when we returned, before settling down again for the night. He’s now getting very good at jumping onto us whilst we are asleep (it’s a hell of a shock sometimes) to tell us that it’s daylight and we should really get up and let him and Pippy out for their pre-breakfast stroll.
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