Life in the Sun
Monday 19th November
Dear Readers,
It’s marvellous having my brother –in-law Claudio here from Chile. Apart from the help he has been in the bar restaurant and the fact that we have spent some great evenings together in the bar, catching up on a lot on family history.
Claudio is a really cleaver one-man building firm. In Chile he draws up plans for houses for his specific clients and then, once they have sat together in his local bar perusing the plans and marking up any changes, he builds the whole thing himself, hiring extra labour where necessary.
You can imagine how happy we are at the moment, as he is working in our apt for the last two weeks of his stay in Spain. He’ll earn enough money to cover the cost of his holiday and to make up for his lost wages. He’s also going to do some minor renovation in the bar restaurant, so he’ll earn a bit there too, but he has already taken out the horrible Butterfly bricks in the washing room (They were aerated bricks that allow the room to ventilate, but cut out any view.) and removed the door so that it now connects to the kitchen. Now we will be able to use the washing room, as a breakfast room, as Claudio is building a bar for people to sit round. Where these horrible bricks were, he is fitting arched windows, which have fantastic views. This is a big talking point in our bar.
We bought the apt. after we bought the English bar in Estepona. The apt is about 22 years old and in those days the quality of plumbing and electrical fittings wasn’t very good, so these tired details were making our apt. look a bit grim, so imagine our glee when we gave Claudio a pile of Euros and he returned with loads of new stuff to make our apt both look and feel more modern. He also had loads of bits from the plumbers and the electrical suppliers, which to us were just meaningless pieces and we had and will probably never have a clue why we need them, but Claudio said they were all required to make the system work better.
We have two large sofas in our lounge and both of them are ideally located, but also they both completely obscure the two single power points that we need for reading lamps etc. We now have not one, but two double sockets, with switches. Also next to my bed I have a double-switched plug socket, which was previously behind the bed. Olivia’s room now has a double, switchable plug socket on each side of the bed. I have been telling customers in the bar restaurant, that our whole life will change with these new additions by Claudio.
Sami’s Puppies: Jago the little boy is the biggest and strongest. Then there are two girls, just a tad smaller (they are identical) and finally the smallest, a girl who was just 50 grams at birth is now around 200 grams, but the really great news is that today they all opened their eyes for the first time and that was a marvellous moment and one that the entire family enjoyed.
Jago has been reserved and a deposit paid, there has been intense interest in the remaining girl, but we are not inviting any new prospective owners to view her until she is at least four weeks old, as we had been allowing too many people near the litter and Sami had started to loose interest in feeding them. We are pleased to say that she has now settled down again and the puppies are developing at a rapid rate.
Back to the bar restaurant now to measure up a few things for Claudio and to spend a bit of time with the regulars in the bar.
Cheers
Graham
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