Today is the first day of B.S.Time (eat your heart out Australia) and because it is Sunday we are not sure how this will affect tomorrow morning when the builders arrive for work (yes they’ve had yet another Sunday off). Increasingly, (and with our signalling system with Dario) we find ourselves waking up and getting up, convinced that the builders are having another Saints Day off, only to find them hard at work and us having not heard them arrive. We will see.
We have had the pleasure of Allen and Mags coming up to see us and the house today. Allen is an absolute font of knowledge about local building and swimming pools, and each time we meet I learn loads of basic stuff, as an ex-paper worker, from him and them that we should already know, but don’t. They are a really nice couple and their friendship is a joy to us. We were able to take them up to and show them the house, so far. We also talked about swimming pools systems, air conditioning units, water purifiers and generators. They stayed with us for perhaps two hours, great.
Elayne has been convinced that the balustrades on the solarium are slanting. After a little time tonight she has agreed that it is all an optical illusion, thank goodness, because I would have hated telling the builders that it has all to come down again. As it is, tomorrow, I have to tell the builder that has put the wall tiles in place, that he has put some tiles upside down. This again is about us being on site all the time to keep an eye on things.
Our diesel genny is now running OK again. We can conclude that it needs special diesel genny type oil in it’s sump. Oooops I put 10-40 four stroke petrol engine grade in and it didn’t like it, so gradually broke down on ever increasing occasions until it would only run for about half an hour and then stall. I drained the oil again, cleaned the oil filter with diesel fuel, and re-filled it with diesel genny oil and it is now purring away like a cat with a bowl of cream. Thank goodness, because we need this 5kv genny running well for when we get into the house. It’s still good to have the petrol genny’s as stand by.
We have had the pleasure of Allen and Mags coming up to see us and the house today. Allen is an absolute font of knowledge about local building and swimming pools, and each time we meet I learn loads of basic stuff, as an ex-paper worker, from him and them that we should already know, but don’t. They are a really nice couple and their friendship is a joy to us. We were able to take them up to and show them the house, so far. We also talked about swimming pools systems, air conditioning units, water purifiers and generators. They stayed with us for perhaps two hours, great.
Elayne has been convinced that the balustrades on the solarium are slanting. After a little time tonight she has agreed that it is all an optical illusion, thank goodness, because I would have hated telling the builders that it has all to come down again. As it is, tomorrow, I have to tell the builder that has put the wall tiles in place, that he has put some tiles upside down. This again is about us being on site all the time to keep an eye on things.
Our diesel genny is now running OK again. We can conclude that it needs special diesel genny type oil in it’s sump. Oooops I put 10-40 four stroke petrol engine grade in and it didn’t like it, so gradually broke down on ever increasing occasions until it would only run for about half an hour and then stall. I drained the oil again, cleaned the oil filter with diesel fuel, and re-filled it with diesel genny oil and it is now purring away like a cat with a bowl of cream. Thank goodness, because we need this 5kv genny running well for when we get into the house. It’s still good to have the petrol genny’s as stand by.
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