Drilling through the Ruin

Wednesday 31^st January

Ricardo arrived about 10 am with Franchico, and set him up to drill the channel for the rainwater run-off pipe through the wall and through the ruin next door. Tommy was still off sick. It was still raining a bit, but it brightened up later.

We took the front room chandelier and Ricardo’s ouside lanterns to the auction rooms….lady thought they ought to sell

Then on to Brenda in the second hand shop for a long chat about her house and our house progress. She suggested a fridge freezer was essential in the summer here, and that would solve the small bit of extra worktop problemo…60 € towards a fridge freezer.

After lunch, we drove to Marbella to La Cañada to get a microwave and small oven, and popped into Leroy Merlin to look at mosaic tiles to resolve the shower floor problemo. We were looking at storage solutions, and I spotted a plastic greenhouse for 25 € , to double up as a wardrobe, but J drew the line at that idea

We got back to the house about 3.30 pm, but no sign of anyone. However, there were 2 holes in small bedroom and 1 hole in front bedroom, where the water pipe channel had been drilled from the ruin side of the house….the wall’s very thin .we could see into the derelect ruin next door, and the interesting wooden construction of the roof….rather like a barn. There were bits of plaster rubble and dust all over bed and floor, and we spent an hour clearing up.

We ate in for a change, and spent evening designing the website and discussing ideas for escorted day trips and a pricing system.