9.30am Luis arrives with delivery of gravel so we can start building the base for a new log store at the side of the container. The store will not only be practical and attractive, it will also conceal the container to a large extent. Plus we will be able to hide some of life’s essentials – such as scaffolding, cement mixer, etc. - behind the wall of it.
Luis is hopping around with happiness this morning as he has the bill for us. He always asks us to check the addition, which as usual proves difficult due to the fact that he figures are not in straight columns, his 4’s are like 7’s and visa versa. Anyway, between the 3 of us we manage. And it is less than half the price we were expecting. I ask you – £20 per hour for a JCB including operator – not bad!
The guests leave around 10.30 am with many promises to return as soon as possible/tell their friends/be our agent and so on. Now time to get the casita ready for the new guests due today, though they shouldn’t be arriving until after 4pm as per the instructions we give them.
They optimistically arrive 12.30 with cries of ‘what has happened to the weather’ (it is hot but cloudy) and ‘we seem to be in the middle of nowhere, what can you recommend we do?’ This, I am sorry to say, does not endear me to people. We recommend they go away again and come back after 4pm. Well, actually, the casita is nearly ready for them, so we let them drop off their luggage, use the bathroom etc. and generally try and be kind.
We then send them off to have lunch at a nearby restaurant, point out all the lovely walks in the area which the north is famous for, and the scenic and/or whacky villages around us that they should visit.
David and I then crack on with 14 mixes of concrete which we do in around an hour. That is seriously speedy going – ask any builder! And so the first base is done on our new project.
The guests find it difficult to stay away for too long and find themselves back here at just before 4pm. But we are finished with noisy work for the day so we disappear from view and they can relax on the patio.
The forecast is for a good few very hot days but there is no sign of it right now. Thick cloud begins to envelope us, seeping over from the west, and it feels like a smoggy night in London. I decide to give the vegetables a long watering session, intended to seep deep down into the roots. If it is going to be hot, then this cool night will give the water a chance to sink right down and help them over the next few days.
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