Here we go......

At last we've got the band-waggon rolling! We need to get the water meter moved out of the Cave which will become the kitchen. I went down to the Town-hall the week before our Korea trip and told the girl there who runs everything, that we would not be back till the 30th of September. Lo and behold, the Water man arrived on Tuesday 2nd October to see what needed to be done. He left saying that he'd be back the next week. We had to go out this morning (Monday) and when we got back at 12 o'clock JJ told me the water men had been, and there was a big hole dug. Now that's what I call service.

Betty is staying with us again and we had all been invited to our English neighbours, John and Lesley, for lunch. But when we saw the men's lorry returning at 2pm I rushed out to make sure there weren't any problems. Needless to say, Sue came along as well to make sure they'd dug the hole in the right place. After some banter as to the relative merits of the English and the French rugby teams (who will be meeting in the semi-finals of the World Cup next weekend), the men were quite happy plodding along.

Having left the men to get on with it, we returned to John and Lesley's to continue with our meal. That is, until a lorry laden with what looked like breeze blocks went past the window. So we rushed out again and this time it was a delivery of materials for the concrete flooring which will replace our lounge floor. This was off-loaded onto our front lawn; the first of many loads I think. Hopefully it won't take too much to repair it when we've finished!

We did manage to finish the meal after that, and we then had some instructions on how the water, electricity, washing machine etc. work as we are going to decamp into John and Lesley's house whilst the worst of the work is done. At least we won't have to worry about how to heat up enough water to wash ourselves!

Having finally finished our lunch at about half past four, I had time to clear the 'spoil' from around the water meter (except for another load of stones). Lets hope that all of the work goes this smoothly.