Well, a lot has been done to the house since we were last down in the village, well we assume it has. Money seems to be pouring from our account all too often, but as far as we can tell things have been happening, and the odd photo we get from Oliver (the builder) seems to concur.
Yes, I know I have been slack with updates, but ... been busy. Since we spent our two weeks in our new house (indoor camping) back in September our time has been eaten up with both scraping together the funds to keep Oliver happy and also finding and deciding on fittings, i.e. sanitary ware, taps, tiles, kitchens, blah. Ok, there might have been a bit of feet up time in between chores. Hopefully we have nailed all the bits and bobs now, we even bought a kitchen tap and sink, not that it is going to do much sitting in
Bob's garage 600km from the building site!
All the hard graft on the house is nearly completed, i.e. walls and roof, and the plastering and windows will also soon be done so that the place is a sealed unit. The builders break up for Christmas on the 22nd December, just a few weeks away, but if all goes well the place will have a kitchen (no doors), sewerage, internal plastering, plumbing and basic electrical. Of course this will induce another scrape of funds from us as an early Christmas pressie for Oliver! He did mention sommit about Barbados for the festive season?!
Anyway, our aim is to get down to Underberg in early January to check it all out for ourselves. Sadly it seems like end of February will be the earliest we can actually move in, sigh, long wait still. Good news though, our goods we shipped from the UK have arrived. Funny thing is though, they should still be in the UK as we told Anglo Pacific not to ship until December 1st at the earliest. They apparently 'overlooked' this wee detail. Several emails and interesting telephone conversation later we got a decent apology.
Oh, and they even buggered up the invoicing for it. So now our stuff will have to sit in storage in SA, assuming it is all there, for a couple of months until we can receive it in the house.
I shall post some pictures now (see album link to the right) and hopefully some more later in the month,
assuming we have some new ones.
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