Tuesday 24th

Luis cunningly avoided being on time as is his wont and arrived at just after1pm. We were pleasantly surprised to see him at all actually after weeks of waiting, although it wasn’t really Luis but one of his side kicks plus Luis’ son. The nameless sidekick looked a bit of a tough nut with a sizeable scar rising up from the corner of his lip. Added to which he was shoeless which is slightly strange for someone in the construction, or destruction industry. It was the first time we have seen Luis’ son working without his dad. We have known the lad for about 3 or 4 years. In fact, when we had the ‘big hole’ (6m x 4m) dug out for the bbq room, Louis’ son, who is only ever referred to as ‘boy’ jumped into the Bobcat and gave us a demonstration of his remarkable abilities of swirling it around in a tight space immediately adjacent to a precipice. That was when he was 10 years old. Now he is 13 he has obviously moved onto larger things such as manoeuvring a 5 tonne truck in a small space next to what was the precipice and is now our bbq room. Plus an excavator. Our excavator.
Man and ‘boy’ worked hard all afternoon patiently digging, clearing and levelling an L-shaped space next to and in front of the sea container. Four times, man went off with the lorry to empty the rubble, rock and soil they had cleared, while boy continued to dexterously craft and clear. A lot more to clear than we had thought and we are in something of dread of how much it is going to cost.