Remember the performance over the transformer???? Still not working by the way. We appear to be missing one lamp post. Anyway have now moved on to laying patio in garden. Big garden - 1500 sq metres, so very expensive to pave. Bought broken floor tiles from knocked down hotel - 15,000RD$. Bought 50 bags of cement. So far so good. Friends of husband declared they were professionals. Started laying patio. I gave them a spirit level - thought it might help. They laid about 3 square metres. It was 4 inches higher at one side than the other!!! Explained how spirit level worked. (They thought you just had to be able to see the bubble - it didn't have to be in the middle!). Took up patio. Had visit from Maestro patio layer. He wanted 40,000 RD$ for the whole job. No way. So he laid the edge - beautiful, level, and put string all the way across to guide guys who would carry on laying - the ones who said they were professional. Off we go. Use 10 bags of cement. No cement left. 40 bags have walked, no-one knows when or where. Someone knows where I can buy cement cheaply, so buy more cement. (Probably buying back my own bags which were nicked. Note to self: mark bags of cement in future). Off we go again. String markers disappear. They were getting in the way of the wheelbarrow. Patio grows slowly and unevenly. Still problems using spirit level. Now spirit level has disappeared. Lent to someone yesterday who has gone to work in Bayaguana or something like that. Anyone got a spare spirit level????? Or does it really matter!!!!
Matilda
Matilda