Saturday 16-6-2007After all the promise of yesterday with Dario saying that he will send four guys up today, guess what, no one has been near us at all, all day. We rushed off down to the supermarket early so that we could return to offer advice to the site cleaner on how to recognise old discarded cement bags hanging from our almond trees down in the campo as rubbish needing to be collected. Ah well, we have been able to use the tub this afternoon in peace, it was lovely cooling off in there.
I tested out most of the new water piping today using the hebe submersible water pump to pressurise the system. I am quite chuffed to say that so far as I was able to test, all seemed OK. We have a 2800ltr/min, none submersible, water pump and regulator to fit onto the house part of the system when we fit the water softener, perhaps sometime next week. That should give us good pressure in the showers and soft water that will not clog all the pipes up within eighteen months. If we got as far as clogging the water pipes up, because we did not put a softener in, most of the floors and tiles in the house would have to be taken up to renew the pipes, not a good option.
Sunday 17-6-2007
No internet and bloody builders once more today. Didn’t really expect either but it is a ‘p…. in the a….’. We are going to investigate if Telefonica (Spanish version of BT) also do a radio link internet and telephone package. If they do and we can make ourselves understood then we might switch over to them. Until yesterday, when we were talking to someone in Taberno, we didn’t know that Telefonica had a radio internet service. It’s a shame we can’t do the same with the builders.
It’s another blisteringly hot day today. My outside thermometer, on the sunny side of the caravan, has been in the forties this morning and a very muggy thirty five inside the van.
We have done some caravan cleaning this morning, just to work up a lather. Then we are going to do various things in Taberno and then we will come back and watch the finals of the tennis at Queens. All this activity interspersed , of course, with showers and dips in the hot tub, what a life.
Monday 18-6-2007
I had a head to head with Dario this morning. After all the promise of four guys working up here last week and then nothing, this morning he shows up with just one guy. I let him know that we were now getting fed up with him promising to get things moving and nothing happening. I reminded him that last week he promised that he would be finished in two weeks. He repeated this promise again this morning and then after lengthy discussions with Carlos, on the phone, he said that Carlos would be back up here tomorrow.
If he and Carlos don’t show that they are going to get on, and finish very quickly, I am going to tell him that I will employ someone else to finish the job and that I will use the money that was going to be his final payment. Oh! You can tell that I am now vexed. I have got my dander up now (what the hell is a dander anyway, when I have got it up?) .
Tuesday 19-6-2007
After our annoyance, as expressed to Dario yesterday, we have Carlos and two men plus a builder on site today (four in total). We have, at last, seen the kitchen fronts and doors, that we ordered many moons ago (not quite the same as the catalogue). It’s funny that they should arrive just on the day we tell Dario how brassed off we’re getting. Elayne and I think that they have been in Carlos’s store for some time and have only just been produced because we were getting a bit fractious. If we don’t protest then everyone goes off to more pressing jobs. Therefore protest, protest, protest it will have to be until we are really glad that they have all gone to other jobs.
Sorry about the internet, still not on after ten days. We are told that AVI are building an extra new mast to cater for the over subscribed mast that is in use now. How long that will be is any ones guess.