Friday (again) 9-3-2007
A glorious warm windless day, but!! we are told that the wind that we endured on Wednesday and yesterday is coming back tomorrow and/or Sunday (bugger). It is also said that we are, at the moment in ‘the eye of a storm‘. That, to, me, sounds a bit of an exaggeration, but I can see what they mean. We have tightened everything up/down on the caravan and portacabin, that can be tightened, and put a few more bricks in the wall, courtesy of ‘Pink Floyd’! (I suppose that this is how Berlin first got divided). We have also put another three anchors on the chassis of the caravan to aid it’s attachment to terra firma. We’ll one day find the chassis of the caravan in place and the body blown off and down on the campo (only kidding ‘onest). This information of non- welcome news we gleaned whilst we were out shopping this morning. We really hope that it is wrong.
On the house front, we now have a kitchen door, a lounge window and two French doors, We also have in place marble window sills, all round, and the ‘grande entrado principal’ (front door) is now proudly in it’s rightful place. Elayne and I think that it looks really impressive. We have double glazed glass in all the small windows around the house now and we hope that the French doors will be glazed tomorrow, in time for the other half of the storm. This afternoon, whilst I was changing the oil on the diesel genny (is there no end to this man’s talents), a lorry arrived that had all of our internal tiles on it (two full pallet loads). It’s all getting very exciting don‘t you think? We are now waiting for the builders to all go home so that we can go and take some more pictures.
Saturday 10-3-2007
We have been down to Albox (so what’s new) this morning and we have ordered our soft lounge furniture. The lovely place where we are buying it have to order it, so it will probably be about seven to eight weeks in coming. They asked for thirty percent deposit but then accepted my counter offer of ten percent deposit. We will probably go down to Antas next week and order the hard furniture, also for the lounge.
It’s another fresh but glorious day today although this afternoon we have a small breeze.
The builders have finished putting the doors in and have now cemented them all round. They are continuing on with the yeso and should finish the whole of the outside by next week. As the yeso is the exact colour that we want the final paint colour to be, we feel that it looks really good.
Now for some decent TV, 6 Nations Rugby.
Sunday 11-3-2007
Sunday lovely Sunday, except, that we are alone, no builders anywhere in sight. Elayne and I have spent an hour rough pruning one of the fig trees. It was so dense in the bottom that we had to get the loppers and then the strimmer into it before we saw any results. There was also a centre dead section that we have partially removed. We need to summon up the energy to take the chain saw down there to remove the 200mm thick centre dead piece of the tree. Pruning is not so bad but removing the dead branches to a central place where we can eventually burn them is an exhausting occupation. We are sure that the fig tree in question will thank us for taking the trouble to open it up, by producing loads more fruit than we saw last year. The almond trees are very well endowed with budding nuts already. At €0.80/kg, after the harvest, we should be able to afford a new deck chair for the solarium later this year ;-
We are still having severe trouble getting on and staying on line. The signal is there but seems not to be strong enough to maintain ‘online status’ for more than a couple of minutes at a time. I keep calling the supplier but don’t get a permanent solution to the problem. I can’t get my email, laugh at my bank account or even run Skype properly just now, so if anyone is waiting for a reply to anything, I’m sorry but I am unable to read the question.
Monday 12-3-2007
I am are really sorry but we still have no internet connection. I have talked again with Iberband today and they have promised that an English speaking person will ring me tomorrow. I will be actively trying to find another service provider quite soon.
The builders have today spent all day on the roof Yeso’ ing around the bottom of where the balustrades will be going. They have placed several of the main balustrade uprights (we made them move one because we didn’t like it where it was) and they have put in place the main solarium drains from the roof. These drain ways are designed for when the rain really does rain in Spain and should clear the roof efficiently (we hope).We have also had two electricians on site for most of the day. They are threading wires through all the conduits that are now embedded into the walls and ceilings, talk about spaghetti bolognese.
BTW we didn’t seem to get the ‘forewarned of’ high winds returning, thank goodness. We have slept well for the last few nights and really we want it to continue that way.
A glorious warm windless day, but!! we are told that the wind that we endured on Wednesday and yesterday is coming back tomorrow and/or Sunday (bugger). It is also said that we are, at the moment in ‘the eye of a storm‘. That, to, me, sounds a bit of an exaggeration, but I can see what they mean. We have tightened everything up/down on the caravan and portacabin, that can be tightened, and put a few more bricks in the wall, courtesy of ‘Pink Floyd’! (I suppose that this is how Berlin first got divided). We have also put another three anchors on the chassis of the caravan to aid it’s attachment to terra firma. We’ll one day find the chassis of the caravan in place and the body blown off and down on the campo (only kidding ‘onest). This information of non- welcome news we gleaned whilst we were out shopping this morning. We really hope that it is wrong.
On the house front, we now have a kitchen door, a lounge window and two French doors, We also have in place marble window sills, all round, and the ‘grande entrado principal’ (front door) is now proudly in it’s rightful place. Elayne and I think that it looks really impressive. We have double glazed glass in all the small windows around the house now and we hope that the French doors will be glazed tomorrow, in time for the other half of the storm. This afternoon, whilst I was changing the oil on the diesel genny (is there no end to this man’s talents), a lorry arrived that had all of our internal tiles on it (two full pallet loads). It’s all getting very exciting don‘t you think? We are now waiting for the builders to all go home so that we can go and take some more pictures.
Saturday 10-3-2007
We have been down to Albox (so what’s new) this morning and we have ordered our soft lounge furniture. The lovely place where we are buying it have to order it, so it will probably be about seven to eight weeks in coming. They asked for thirty percent deposit but then accepted my counter offer of ten percent deposit. We will probably go down to Antas next week and order the hard furniture, also for the lounge.
It’s another fresh but glorious day today although this afternoon we have a small breeze.
The builders have finished putting the doors in and have now cemented them all round. They are continuing on with the yeso and should finish the whole of the outside by next week. As the yeso is the exact colour that we want the final paint colour to be, we feel that it looks really good.
Now for some decent TV, 6 Nations Rugby.
Sunday 11-3-2007
Sunday lovely Sunday, except, that we are alone, no builders anywhere in sight. Elayne and I have spent an hour rough pruning one of the fig trees. It was so dense in the bottom that we had to get the loppers and then the strimmer into it before we saw any results. There was also a centre dead section that we have partially removed. We need to summon up the energy to take the chain saw down there to remove the 200mm thick centre dead piece of the tree. Pruning is not so bad but removing the dead branches to a central place where we can eventually burn them is an exhausting occupation. We are sure that the fig tree in question will thank us for taking the trouble to open it up, by producing loads more fruit than we saw last year. The almond trees are very well endowed with budding nuts already. At €0.80/kg, after the harvest, we should be able to afford a new deck chair for the solarium later this year ;-
We are still having severe trouble getting on and staying on line. The signal is there but seems not to be strong enough to maintain ‘online status’ for more than a couple of minutes at a time. I keep calling the supplier but don’t get a permanent solution to the problem. I can’t get my email, laugh at my bank account or even run Skype properly just now, so if anyone is waiting for a reply to anything, I’m sorry but I am unable to read the question.
Monday 12-3-2007
I am are really sorry but we still have no internet connection. I have talked again with Iberband today and they have promised that an English speaking person will ring me tomorrow. I will be actively trying to find another service provider quite soon.
The builders have today spent all day on the roof Yeso’ ing around the bottom of where the balustrades will be going. They have placed several of the main balustrade uprights (we made them move one because we didn’t like it where it was) and they have put in place the main solarium drains from the roof. These drain ways are designed for when the rain really does rain in Spain and should clear the roof efficiently (we hope).We have also had two electricians on site for most of the day. They are threading wires through all the conduits that are now embedded into the walls and ceilings, talk about spaghetti bolognese.
BTW we didn’t seem to get the ‘forewarned of’ high winds returning, thank goodness. We have slept well for the last few nights and really we want it to continue that way.
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