Week 9 Villa
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Sat 23 May 2020 23:57
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Week Nine at Sleeping
Indian
 Sunday the 17th of
May. After breakfast (not boiled eggs as a working day) and after yet
another planning meeting, we headed out to VEG and bought new, fun, splashback
tiles for the downstairs toilet and two of what we think will look perfect for the kitchen. Then we went to AR for a couple of
bits of pipe and a few more joints for the outside shower, then Kennedys to get
aluminum strips for the front of each step for the staircase tiles. Enough for
one day, we went back and I had Bear hold up one of the new
kitchen tiles – perfect.
  I lost at backgammon, then set about
Sunday roast with Bear’s birthday sprouts – fresh not
frozen and real Coleman’s Bread Sauce. I would rather eat wallpaper paste but
each to his own, wonderful and a real treat.
Meal ready in dishes, I served the roast chicken with his bread sauce and Bear
help himself to vegetables. Bad move. Way too much gravy and suddenly he was
making mess everywhere, consigned to having his plate on a tray. I was a bad boy
but so delicious. We played Mex Train, I was allowed to win,
my foot I allowed you to win, I was
trounced. Upstairs for showers and more planning with furniture
movements on the cards to the front bedroom.
Monday the 18th.
More shops. May be getting a little worn by this gathering now but we kept the
hire car for the bank visit tomorrow so we had to utilise it.
Tuesday the 19th.
Nine thirty saw us in front of a lovely Customer Enablement Specialist at the
newly opened branch to open an on-line bank account details. . Went to find a
‘proper’ garden centre only to find it closes on a Tuesday. We gave the hire car
back to ‘enjoy’ a work day tomorrow......
  Wednesday the
20th. Bear pottered and organised the front
bedroom cupboard to safely house the new vanity unit, our sink and I
thought he did a really good job. I moved the deck loungers
to front bedroom after we had piled the beds on top of one another. I put
a primer coat on the staircase and you know how some days you are such a neat
worker, today I was not. Bear took pictures of me with a streak down my face
where I had bent over to look at the far bannister, it was in my hair and
somehow down my back. Fortunately, the pictures he took were lost in a memory
card failure...... Post lunch we decided on the beach for a swim. Saw a tiny
fence and odd sticks.
 Thursday the 21st.
Bank to collect on-line numbers etc. We are to return in about a fortnight for
our credit cards. Popped in to the tile shop to leave our card details and tweak
the order. Then as it is our Wedding Anniversary Bear treated me to
KFC, I know how to wine and dine the
laydees....... we went for a swim taking our blow-up bag beds.
Enough of a breeze for Bear to inflate his without spinning on the spot and
dancing giddily (as per Chagos experience...). We carefully explored the edge of
the fenced area. Some lovely person has pushed sticks into the sand and wound
green string to form an area. Then sticks for
markers, marking what ???
  Little white tern
nests. Well, a quick bottom wiggle in the sand and lay two eggs. My kind of nest
building. Mmmm.
  Under the huge job lists we had to
remind ourselves.......
  Friday the 22nd.
Joyce came for the last bits of the old dining set and we set to work reorganising the lounge. Up went the new dining chairs and
the BBQ – Lady Ronnie popped in “Like what you have done to the front bedroom...” Lord Ron had dropped by to say work
begins on Monday.
  Saturday the 23rd.
The Big Disassemble. Bear started with the larder and
moved on to the next cupboard. Note the two-tone tee shirt colour.... officially
back to being called Sweaty Boy.
   I began with a simple job – painting the coasters........yes, but it was to see if my
‘messy’ was still on me. No, the four small ‘thingys’ went well and not a spot
on my hands compared to the last time I trotted about on a paintbrush, so I took
on the rattan furniture upstairs. Later, we were both horrified to see the state
of the workmanship that held the microwave in place – three
tries each. The kickboards, instead of being clipped in place were
screwed straight through the fronts – unnoticed against the brown.
  The pile
grew and of course the final screw was a
complete mare.
  The plug hole for the microwave
dictated the move to the far end of the lounge and having looked at the
instructions Bear found it has a light and an extractor fan, result. We declared
the kitchen was fully remodeled and fit
for business for the next couple of weeks. We are ready for the
workmen to begin. I made jerk mince, chopped salad and we repaired to the
bedroom with a glass of rose and our final Lucifer. Sad, we will have to wait
for some time for season five but we began Ozark.
ALL IN ALL ANOTHER STEP
FORWARD
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