J's Brick Design

Wednesday 7 February

Awoke early at 6 am and caught upon blog and a bit of work on web site. Ricardo & Juan arrived at 8 am on the dot and Franchico about 5 minutes later nursing a hangover……in that he got out some pills and asked for agua to take them with.

Main job today for Juan seemed to be painting the front of house white, and Franchico doing the bricks on top of the patio garden. Ricardo issued his instructions and left, and after breakfast, I drove to Fuengirola for 9 am to book car in to fix alarma and boot lock and odometer …..chap at Opel garage very helpful.

I walked into Fuengirola…a couple of kilometres…and went to wifi café , where I was the first customer, and had an all day English breakfast served by a pretty Chinese student. The wifi wouldn’t work properly, and she was unable to sort it, so I asked her if I could have a go, and just pulled out cable which rebooted it, and it worked first time.

J painted all day ….ceiling in downstairs bathroom, roof terrace walls and part of porch.

I picked up the car just before they closed at 2 pm (very cheap @ 117 € for new boot lock and alarm sensor, sorting alarm and odometer light), and filled up with diesel at cheap Esso garage @ 82.9 c (56p) per litre and then drove home. Spent the afternoon on the roof terrace scraping.

After cleaning up, J decided she didn’t like the patio bricks as they were over cemented, and we removed excess cement that was still soft, to make a cog wheel design (see pic). Ricardo arrived about 6 pm (to meet Door Man), and finished off scraping of a top layer to give a more pleasing effect.

Another Antonio ….the security door man arrived to fix the doors, which were very stiff, and he blamed the frames which were too tight….fitted by Ricardo we think. Anyway he managed to improve them. Went evening shopping for paint for the front door, liso (matt) Marron , which is a sort of chocolate /conker colour.