Thursday 11 April 2013
The building site has been our own for about three weeks now, and we want to get working on something substantial. However, when we talked to Constantine, he said he was busy on a project and could we wait until after Easter? We were horrified! Greek Easter is on May 5th this year - we can't afford to lose all that time - especially as April is probably the best outdoor working month of the year.
So Constantine was persuaded to organise a delivery of stone for us. I met up with Takis in the morning, at Art Party and handed over some money, then at lunchtime a guy arrived in a pickup, to scout the area, and we agreed where the delivery should be, then Dave went off to band practice, and left me to marshal the rock truck when it arrived.
When we planted the orchard, we were thinking into the distant future, when we would want a nice view of blossoming trees from the house, but we didn't think about getting heavy deliveries close to the site. The truck driver was an artist. He had to squeeze between saplings, some of which had to be bent away to get the truck through. I thought he would crush all the orchids, but amazingly, they were missed.
The building site has been our own for about three weeks now, and we want to get working on something substantial. However, when we talked to Constantine, he said he was busy on a project and could we wait until after Easter? We were horrified! Greek Easter is on May 5th this year - we can't afford to lose all that time - especially as April is probably the best outdoor working month of the year.
So Constantine was persuaded to organise a delivery of stone for us. I met up with Takis in the morning, at Art Party and handed over some money, then at lunchtime a guy arrived in a pickup, to scout the area, and we agreed where the delivery should be, then Dave went off to band practice, and left me to marshal the rock truck when it arrived.
When we planted the orchard, we were thinking into the distant future, when we would want a nice view of blossoming trees from the house, but we didn't think about getting heavy deliveries close to the site. The truck driver was an artist. He had to squeeze between saplings, some of which had to be bent away to get the truck through. I thought he would crush all the orchids, but amazingly, they were missed.
The rock pile, not so far from the site, although down a short slope. Rather larger blocks than we'd hoped.
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