Back to the Old School

I've decided to take some time this evening and get a quick blog post written rather than saving it up for an epic uber long one again. That last update was crazy-long.

A new day dawns

Patio cleared ready for the delivery truck

The wheel is being fixed on the trolley

Mesut sweeping the dust up

The day dawned bright and early for me with Thelma's nose in my face - A had gone to the guest room as she was a bit unsettled so it was down to me to do the puppy toilets. She headed off to collect the men while I took pictures of the sunrise and then got my graft on. I worked up a major sweat shifting and clearing all the wood off the patio and then did all my chores before heading to my desk. It took ages for A to get back as she had to wait for Bekir to arrange the delivery of wood and scaffold that we needed today and the builders yard was not prepared at all - typical. When they did get back I found that sadly Sally was not with them, nor will he be joining us tomorrow either. He is unwell. I hope he gets better soon. Bekir fixed the trolley wheel that had become loose and then got to work sharpening the chainsaw and also helping myself and Mesut clear out the gym. Never mind running on it, lifting the running machine out was a major workout in itself. With the room cleared Mesut got stuck in to sweeping and dampening the dust down.

More scaffold - I hate scaffold

All unloaded

Bottom corridor full again

Grinding the tiles to shape

Starting to get them into place

Bekir fixing the metal sheet that had blown loose

Before anything else could really get started the delivery truck arrived and, true to form, the driver watched while we unloaded everything. With the three of us it did not take long and everything is stacked safely. It was now lunch time and I was feeling so hungry, a sign I'm tired, while the men took a short break and were back to their tasks very quickly. Mesut was tiling and made a grand start cutting and shaping the tiles for around the door with a grinder. They are going to complete everything in the gym (which will no longer be the gym after this) before moving on to the bigger room; this is because that room will become the tool room with all the shelving units and storage in it (and an airbrush booth as well) so when we clear the large room the shelves and tools will go straight in there. Efficiency. Bekir, meanwhile, went up the ladder onto the Green Building roof and very swiftly patched the sheet that had blown loose.

Bekir taking down more of our dead trees

He's so calm up the tree

Mesut making great prorgess

Bekci sees cows for the first time

Tile status at the end of the day

With the Green Building Roof sorted Bekir went out with the chainsaw to complete the wood job. I received a call from him at one point because Rambo was annoying him, bless, so I had to go and put Rambo away for the afternoon. He is just too stupid and will stand underneath falling branches so it was for his own good. I got another video of Bekir not trying to kill me and then he was on to the Walnut trees down the front. He got all but one of these finished and so tomorrow that will be all done and then we just have to shift SO MANY TREES AND BRANCHES up to storage. Mesut was working away quietly all this time and had made superb progress; he may even finish this room tomorrow. We let Bekci out for a bit and she was bouncing around and having great fun (Bekir loves her) and then she spotted the cows making their way up the side. She was most confused about them. She didn't bark, thought. And that is that. I took the men home and got back in the dark, the clocks having changed, and have done some work and now taken a few minutes to do this update.

Quick fire is the best; I'll certainly try and get the update done tomorrow evening again.

Thanks for reading.