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Published: July 16th 2017
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The last few times I have woken in the middle of the night to watch European football there has been a channel showing coverage from the English Championship and this has appeared to be a weekly program. I wake up tonight specifically to watch this coverage and guess what, it isnt on and instead there is now a shopping program advertising exercise equipment, just what I need at 01:30 in the morning !!
The 'builder' and his family arrive early and start by assessing a job that we want doing at the front of the house later. Whilst they are there the lorry with our supplies arrives and it is decided that the easiest way to unload on our front would be to knock down the wall where we want to put a big gate. Out comes the sledgehammers and a few minutes later the lorry has backed over the debris and dumped sand and gravel on the front. With a huge amount of forethought they have dumped everything right in front of our side entrance so it is now alomost impossible to get my motorbike out. Lucky we dont envisage needing it today !
The 'builder' has to go somewhere
else for a while but his son makes a start laying out the ground for the wall. I normally sit and watch every move a workman makes when they are here as every 5mins or so they tend to forget what they are supposed to be doing. In this case it is only a short, one block high wall so nothing can go amiss can it ? I sit out the front with a book and leave him to it anyway.
'Builder' returns late morning and they have soon finished the job and we now have a lareger concrete patio outside the back door and a raised fllor in the rice shed without any apparent problems. They bag up the left over sand and gravel and we will keep this for the work at the front later.
As we had to empty the rice shed for the work we now have about 800kg of rice sat in sacks in our kitchen for a week until the floor completely dries out. As at the end of next month we should, all being well, get another 1500kg of rice arrive from this years crop I think it might a good idea to get rid
of some of it !! Shockingly low prices at the moment though we are told.
Late afternoon Erm comes to the house looking for German John. He went into Phon Thong this morning and hasnt come back yet. As he went without his phone they cant get in touch with him. Whilst she is here a rather unhappy John arrives. His g\bike had broken down 3 times en-route here from Phon Thong and in between the walking and the waiting at a couple of different garages it has taken him a few hours to complete the return journey.
I try my latest old film; 'Hercules And The Captive Women'. It is absolutely dreadful and the first of the old films so far I have had to give up on.
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