We stayed in this morning to await delivery of our new cooker. The store told us that the driver would ring us when he set off from Vera. Indeed at about eleven this morning the driver rang and so I set off for Taberno once more and met up with him, very much as arranged. It’s a good job that I don’t call in for a drink each time I meet someone. On Monday I have to repeat the process again for the fridge/freezer, washing machine and dishwasher. It’s all very well but we don’t have the house wired up or plumbed up just yet to make anything work.
After the delivery we went down to Albox and bought a fireside companion set, a fire guard, and a wrought iron wood basket all very ‘top shelf’. We understand from Mags and Allen that we can buy a lorry load (about six tonnes) of almond and olive wood for about €450, delivered, and that this will probably last for at least two winters. With our own wood maybe even longer. I’ll have to get on and build some sort of wood store to keep it all dry in.
The two builders are finishing off the outside tile work, it’s a lot more involved than meets the eye. At every corner of the house all the tiles have to be mitred to marry up with the next stretch of flat area. When they have finished the flat surfaces they will tile the vertical surfaces of the surround and the porch steps. We feel that Dario should put twenty guys on site and get it finished off for us, but that’s not the way of things here.
It’s very stormy this afternoon and we have heard rumbles of thunder over the mountains.
We are arranging for a guy called Phil to uninstall the solar system from John and Anne’s house, bring it up to site and then return later to install it all for us as an addition to the genny. So in the end we will have oil fired central heating and hot water, bottled gas hob and cooker and then genny plus solar powered electricity. Phil warned us that we may have to buy some extra batteries for the solar system but that’s OK if it gives us power for nearly twenty four hours of most days. We might also look at a wind turbine to see if that can also add to the system. Before coming here we took all of these things for granted and didn’t need to think about them too much. The book of our adventures could be entitled ‘Six months in a Mountain Lay-by’. Any sponsors?
After the delivery we went down to Albox and bought a fireside companion set, a fire guard, and a wrought iron wood basket all very ‘top shelf’. We understand from Mags and Allen that we can buy a lorry load (about six tonnes) of almond and olive wood for about €450, delivered, and that this will probably last for at least two winters. With our own wood maybe even longer. I’ll have to get on and build some sort of wood store to keep it all dry in.
The two builders are finishing off the outside tile work, it’s a lot more involved than meets the eye. At every corner of the house all the tiles have to be mitred to marry up with the next stretch of flat area. When they have finished the flat surfaces they will tile the vertical surfaces of the surround and the porch steps. We feel that Dario should put twenty guys on site and get it finished off for us, but that’s not the way of things here.
It’s very stormy this afternoon and we have heard rumbles of thunder over the mountains.
We are arranging for a guy called Phil to uninstall the solar system from John and Anne’s house, bring it up to site and then return later to install it all for us as an addition to the genny. So in the end we will have oil fired central heating and hot water, bottled gas hob and cooker and then genny plus solar powered electricity. Phil warned us that we may have to buy some extra batteries for the solar system but that’s OK if it gives us power for nearly twenty four hours of most days. We might also look at a wind turbine to see if that can also add to the system. Before coming here we took all of these things for granted and didn’t need to think about them too much. The book of our adventures could be entitled ‘Six months in a Mountain Lay-by’. Any sponsors?
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