Taps and awning

Not only am I a man with two taps but hopefully one with an awning too soon.

Antonis came this morning with a plumbing fitting, but it was the wrong one. He said we could carry in the awning to unpack it on the decking, until he tried to lift it whereupon he felt it might be better to wait until the evening when Manos would be there.… Read the rest

Not just one tap…

Having waited all this time to have one tap, now I have two!

My secondary watering tap is now operational thanks to a length of plastic pipe and some pipe fittings.

I discovered a leak from the joint with the outside showers and my supply, and tried to repair it. Unfortunately I was unable to fix it so have asked Antonis if he’d get me another connector.… Read the rest

The awning has landed!

A large truck pulled up close to my compound with two large delivery persons aboard.

They have delivered three large boxes. One more than 4.5m long!

Sadly Adonis had already gone having finished off his welding earlier. He also did my tap, welding it to the metal frame of the decking. It will definitely not fall off.… Read the rest

A hive of activity

I was in the shower this morning when Janne walked past with Adonis asking if they might go into my compound. I suggested that, to avoid a barkathon, they perhaps waited until I was out of the shower. As it turned out, there was only some initial barking and the puppies seemed fairly at ease with Janne, Adonis and myself, working in their sub compound.… Read the rest

Hot and windy

Those are satellite images from space. Isn’t technology wonderful?

Hot and windy today with a high, so far, of 35C however the day is yet young.

Helped Mano remove spearhead from Italian customer’s stainless steel harpoon. Promise of squid or octopus pasta later if his fishing trip goes as anticipated. There was also talk of lobster but he doesn’t have a pot.… Read the rest

Pulling up the drawbridge

Mr Polychronis delivered a nice roll of green sun shading material 2m x 50m which I used to finish off the end of the compound where the puppies are. The fence is 1.8m high (6′) however the first lot of netting was only 1.6m leaving a little gap at the top. The new netting is much taller than the fence and only needs to be used double to obscure the view.… Read the rest