We have a wall.

We decided we needed a couple of days rest after almost seizing up the day after we had laid the floor in the garage. We have pottered around the house doing bits, but nothing too strenuous, we even found time to go to the market on Saturday morning and have a wander around. It’s a good size market and we will be able to get most of the market shopping we need from there. It’s along the streets in the centre of town and as we wandered along, we bumped into our neighbours and their visitors, who we had previously met, so we all decided to stop in one of the bars for a coffee before going our separate ways for the rest of the day. It was a welcome interlude to all the work we have been doing in the house and I thoroughly enjoyed meandering through the stalls.

Sunday saw us back in our work clothes and mixing more concrete to finish off the front section of the garage floor. This was only 6 loads of cement and we had finished in about 3 hours.

Monday should have been a golf day but Neil woke to find he had tweaked his back and he was a little wary of doing any serious damage. As the weather had turned really windy he decided he would give golf a miss and rest his back as we had planned another heavy work day on Tuesday.

Tuesday saw us up early as today we were going to build the wall in the front of the garage ready for the door and window to go in. Now, neither Neil or I have ever built a wall before and we were quite pleased we would be using blocks rather than bricks. There were a lot less of them and it would grow really quickly. It was a slow process as every block had to be set with the spirit level to make sure it was all straight but we took our time and we managed to finish it before it got dark.

As we stood back admiring our handiwork, I have to confess, I did feel rather pleased with our days work knowing that today would be a rest day because…..

We’ve run out of cement!

So, today we have been into town shopping, trying out another coffee bar and generally enjoying the glorious weather we are having. Check the photo – gorgeous blue skies and temperatures still in double figures. I checked last night and it went as low as 8c during the night but once the sun rose this morning we were back to it being warm enough to walk around without our coats.

One disappointment this week, they were supposed to be coming to install the satellite link for the internet and phone yesterday but they rang me on Monday to say that the equipment hadn’t arrived at the installers so they had to cancel and will re-arrange when they have all the bits. I’m hoping to get a call later this week because it really is difficult without them.

Hey Ho, remember those days of phone boxes and letters – how did we all cope before mobiles and broadband?

I really hope my next post will be from the house – but I’m not holding my breath!

Our next big task is to tile the floor in the garage and we pick up the tiles tomorrow so I guess that will be started fairly soon. We’re trying to get all this work done before the winter sets in and we have seen our first signs this morning.

Over on the mountains far in the distance we have seen our first snow of the winter.