This morning it was another crack of dawn rising, these 5am starts are becoming too regular! Marcela came with me, and I was at the Doctors for 6.40am, both to go over my Psychiatric report, and the blood tests, which although fine for the Shrink, were high in some areas, and the Doc thinks thatContinue reading “Busy Week”
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No More Work Today
I had to get up at 5.30am despite it being yet another Public Holiday, it is Bin Day! It was a good job I did, as they were here by 6am! That meant I could do any work before the sun was overhead, the first job of the day was to remove the wooden frameContinue reading “No More Work Today”
Predictable!
This morning, the Security Camera Engineer was supposed to arrive to replace a dead camera, so first thing, I messaged him to confirm that a) he was coming and b) would it be morning or afternoon. As you will know by now, I have got used to him not turning up, or changing the dayContinue reading “Predictable!”
Oh Dear!
Well that\’s another week-end we are glad to see the back of! No help whatsoever from the Alcaldía de Copacabana, or the Policía Nacional to control the noise from the Finca de Recreo. The Alcalde / Mayor moved the Fiestas de Naranja from the end of the year to July yet again to avoid theContinue reading “Oh Dear!”
Noisy Week-End
We are both knackered this morning, there are people in the Finca de Recreo alongside us, and our walls were rattling all night! Marcela spoke with the Police at 11.30pm, asking if they would visit at some time when in the area, she also sent a message to the Secretaría de Gobierno de Copacabana, butContinue reading “Noisy Week-End”
Disaster!
I knew it was a gamble, but true to form, we didn\’t just have gentle rain last night, we had a full blown tropical storm, and when I went out this morning, I was greeted with this. Thank goodness I had tied the concrete blocks to the balustrade, and we were lucky that the centralContinue reading “Disaster!”
More Sanding!
Today was the turn of some of the detail sanding, the holes in the back of the chairs, I either had to make a contoured sanding block, or use two fingers on a piece of sandpaper, which would not only be time consuming, but painful! I took a piece of PVC pipe, slightly smaller thanContinue reading “More Sanding!”
An Englishman in Colombia 