Patio finally laid

When I wrote my update last night I was starting to feel a little like a cold was coming on; this was not helped by a gypsy wedding in a village a few miles away who thought that screaming down a microphone at 10.30 was the best way to celebrate; I didn't sleep well enough and today was tough as I was feeling quite rough. An early night for me after this update is written.

Bekir, Halil and Hikmet do their weeding

Let's start chopping

We had the cement lorry booked for 10am and Hikmet came with Bekir and Halil to help with this task. 10am came and went, with the men weeding and preparing the last of the ground and waiting. Eventually they went round and started to chop up the firewood whil we waited and waited.

The truck is finally here

Starting in on the pour

Big pump machine

Second lorry, and lots of dust

Smoothing and polishing

Eventually at 2pm the truck appeared and we were ready, booted and gloved. It was another long hot afternoon for them as 10 more cubic of cement was pumped out and they spread and packed it in. A second truck was needed which arrived in a cloud of dust and emptied its load into the pump. When the pump had finished it wasn't time for a break as they had the long task of polishing it, and the ramp was not hardly done. Halil and Hikmet were working on the ramp, shoveling the cement and removing excess. They also covered over the final bit by the toilets. After that they were all down on sheets of insulation and smoothing and smoothing. More of the same for them tomorrow as well.

So there you are; finally all the cement is poured! Thanks for reading.