What a super day it‘s been, full of progress and activity towards the house completion. We are probably still three or four weeks out yet but today we have had two people painting and Carlos and his mate putting the door architrives in place today. There is now only the hallway to have a second coat and the general interior painting is complete. The woodwork surrounding the doors, the architrives, is progressing at a fair lick and will be finished tomorrow. That then leaves the finishing of the tiled skirting up to the door surround before the builders are finished altogether inside.
It has been a superb day as far as the weather is concerned as well. We were down in Mojacar this morning, collecting mail from our friends Isobel and Eric, and this evening, on our visit to the house, we have discovered that the summer evening sun actually comes right around the house and shines back into our bedroom once more (our bedroom is on the north east corner of the house). So we not only get sunrise in our bedroom, we also get sunsets as well, all this because we have north and east facing windows. Also we have tonight realised that, as well as being able to sit on the west end porch in the evening. watching the sunset, the sun is coming all round to the front porch, and it‘s warm. We did not calculate that any of the front, north, side of the house would get any direct sunlight at all so all of this is a huge and welcome bonus to us. What a great unexpected joy. We also sat up on the solarium, on the floor, this evening for the first time, what a sun trap that is going to be. We shall have to write a book, how about a title of……eh…….great expectations, or has it been done perhaps ;-)))
Elayne and I played badminton down on the campo, at a quarter past nine, tonight using the clothes line strung between two almond trees as a net. We had to give in when ‘poor light stopped play’ but it was good fun.