Life is good, were in at last!
The driveway is cast, small retaining walls are finished and there are steps down the side of the house leading to the pump room. The electricity board arrived and put up two telegraph poles and we now have a permanent connection and then the telephone company came and connected our phone and cable TV lines. All we have to do now is find the time to buy a telephone and TV.

I organised a cleaning troop to come in on Thursday, only two turned up and were of little use but most of the building debris was cleared away. I shall have to do the rest in slow time. Then a team of eight men arrived on Friday morning, bright and early and started to cart our belongings in. This was not calm or orderly and we sustained quite a few breakages. There would have been more if it hadn’t been for the excellent packing that PSS shipping did for us. It was great fun emptying boxes and discovering the daft things we shipped; Jeff’s SD hat and ceremonial gloves was probably the most bizarre as they don’t go well with shorts and T shirt and his DJ looks a bit out of place in amongst the cotton shirts. So everything is in and we are now trying to find the best places for stuff and put together the outside furniture .

We had our first night in the house on Friday. I was so looking forward to it but in fact didn’t sleep well as I was over excited and listening to all the new noises. The toads are very loud!

Foxy is fully recovered from her spaying, stitches out and a lovely scar to show her mates. She is loving the mango season as she gets to suck on the stones and ends up with orange paws and face which is actually quite difficult to wash off. She also loves the house and has enjoyed the boxes and paper wrappings as we unpack.

The next blog should show the final look, pictures hung, beds made and all ship shape ready for inspection

This is the bit where we get to settle back and drink a few pitons. Cheers !