The final rain water solution

Tuesday 6^th March

Another cool sunny day to start with, and J started a major clean of the house from top to bottom , whilst I painted the top of the new tiles on the outside of the house and around the house number.

At about 11 am I went up to the town to check e mails re the house purchase and money transfers, and had an E mail from Solicitor that I could exchange/complete on Thursday 8th if the money was transferred to them tomorrow as planned. After lunch on porch, I intended to start painting the front doors, and cleaned them, but it was too windy, so I scraped the remaining upper hall wall leading to the terrace, ready for cauchoing and painting, which took all afternoon as upper wall very difficult as out of reach…..used my pole !

Tommy arrived about 2 30 pm in a bad mood to fit the gutters and downpipes, and this was not improved when J mentioned that she wanted the front of house tiling finished….3 small tiles at base of wall where he had cemented rather than tiled. It got to the stage where J and Tommy were not talking to each other. I demonstrated to him that the gutters would not work, showing him that the water would just flow off the porch terrace and down the wall. He thought about it for a bit, and then fitted the gutters as planned, with a gap from the wall…….

Ricardo arrived about 4 pm, and J showed him the how water would miss the gutter. Ricardo agreed, saying he had told him to cut it somehow. Anyway, he went off to get some flat plastic to bridge the gap which Tommy fitted. The last straw was when Tommy cut and fitted the 3 tiles, but started to use grey cement mortar rather than the brown tile cement, and J told him to remove it.

Ricardo chatted for awhile, as he does when the bill is about to be presented. We were invited to go for “tea” tomorrow evening at 6 pm to get the bill…..approx 2,000 euro, so not too bad.

After they had gone, we went to another garden centre in Coin which was more expensive and not so good as other one, so we returned to the other one to buy cactus, a tall 6 € bounganvillia and more compost soil.

We drove home in the dark and walked to the Garage ….I had planned a Plato de los Montes ……no lomo ….(cold back meat) , but I got extra chorizo and a third roast pimiento. We watched thed first half Liverpool v Barcelona second leg match , and rest of second half in Bar Bramleys.