Our friend, Mike Newman’s birthday today, happy birthday Mike, have a good day.
The die is set, we are moving in to Bella Solana on Thursday, ready or not (just three weeks under one year since we arrived in Spain). If we wait until everything is done we will be still in the caravan for another winter. Better that we get in and then persuade the builder by not giving him his final payment until he does all the things that we want him to do.
We have three furniture companies arriving on site on Thursday and for each one I will have to drive down to Taberno to meet them in Lentisco’s car park and guide them up to site. If they arrive all at the same time we could have a convoy.
Tomorrow all the materials with which to build/complete the garage are arriving. Three lorry loads of blocks, cement, concrete roof girders, doors, window and a cement mixer. A cement mixer is an essential tool for most settlers to this area because people either do what we are doing or buy a ruin for renovation. We will need a cement mixer to build garden walls etc, etc for a long time. Today we had ten tonnes of sand delivered and the guys that are doing the building are coming onto site on Saturday morning. I have to collect them and later return them to Taberno. They will work for ten hours on Saturday and ten again Sunday, then back to the day job for the rest of the week. It should all be finished in four or five week ends.
Busy, but exciting times ahead. We thought that it would never come.