Villa Week 15
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Sat 4 Jul 2020 23:57
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Week Fifteen
at Sleeping Indian
   Sunday the 28th of June. My Sixtieth Birthday.
First thing we had a video call from Team Tinson – Kate, Mark, Jack and Seth
sang Happy Birthday and we enjoyed a lovely catch up. Then Miffy, Rachel, Andrew
and Edward video called and after they had all sung the boys showed me the cards
they had made for me and a bag of money to spend. Just as we were thinking of
breakfast a surprise video call from Kimi in the USVI’s, sadly Trevor was at
work but Kimi filled us with their news. Three wonderful calls. No sooner than
Bear was nearly ready to serve ‘Birthday
eggs’............
 .......Lord and Lady Ronnie appeared with gifts, bits and bobs in a blue sparkly bag bearing the
Absolute Properties logo (a pinny, a key float, spectacle strap, beer coolers
and the latest Jimmy Buffett CD). How smashing.
   After eggs in bed and opening my card from Bear we watched a
couple of episodes of Designated Survivor then we dug out the other two loungers
stacked on the beds in the front bedroom and put them in place on the deck.
Another surprise was on my stomp screen, a cake with six candles.
Clicking to time then date, I found a tiny cake.
Miffy called again, this time to show us the boys whizzing around on their hover
carts and him on his stand-up one. Great fun to watch them spinning and
giggling.
  A ‘birthday swim’ and shell
hunt.
 We made a
couple really laugh as they paddled by stopping to admire their beach umbrella. We think they could sell many in this
particular design......we took the long way for me to get my stomps in by
walking to the far end of the beach and popping out on the ‘posh finger’
road.
  I enjoyed
studying a ‘layered’ planting in a garden but decided
ours was just too small and without a gardener to tend in our absences things
would get too wild and big. Very surprised to see a bougainvillea with its tiny white flowers happy in such a
shallow tub (no more than eight inches high).
 A not so ‘posh
One Careful Owner with a view.........going on for seven o’clock we headed back
to play a couple of games, the day passed so easily. Cake, ice cream and candle
in bed after steak, new potatoes and salad, all washed down with a lovely rose. Time to
read my birthday messages. Not the sixtieth I had planned but a lovely day with
my fella.
    Monday
the 29th. I sorted two folders, one to hold all appliance installation
instructions, the other on how to use them. Top coat on one headboard and first
coat on the mirror from the front bedroom. Meanwhile, Bear made a template for
the upper balcony wires and in minutes the whole job was
done and dusted. Late afternoon we went for a swim and collected another
pot of shells for our plant troughs.
 Tuesday
the 30th. Painters a no show, thoroughly fed up Bear hung the lanterns
back where they should be. I did a first gloss coat on the
staircase and a top coat on another headboard for the front bedroom.
After lunch we pottered for a while and Bear hired a car for the morrow big
enough to collect the furniture glass.
 Bear raised a
smile as he put the lanterns back in place around the
patio and then we went to the beach. The first time we actually sat rather than
just going for a swim. We collected more shells for the flower troughs and by
the time we got in and showered it was supper time.
 Wednesday the 1st of July. We arrived at the Immigration
Office at nine for our nine thirty appointment. Let’s just say we left at one
with three more months and leave it at that.... Outside we saw the lowest number plate we have yet seen (bearing in mind
they are now in the near sixty thousand). We went to pick up a few bits from the
importer, had a super time at a real, proper nursery coming away with two
bougainvillea, four, tiny, pretty pink aloe and a black trailing plant with tiny
white flowers that I will separate to make eight little plants. Buoyed up with
this joyful experience we headed to the glass shop. The first measurement was a
quarter of an inch short..... and on it went and the round piece for the dining
table hadn’t been polished.......growling but not surprised the foreman, his
assistant and the front desk lady all agreed that once sorted they would
deliver. On we went.
  Loved this house we passed.
 After the usual
round of DIY shops for more bits and bobs we drove beyond Jolly to watch the
sunset at Deadwood Beach.
    Thursday the 2nd. We were both thoroughly cheesed off
when it became obvious the painters were not going to come. All I could manage
was messing about with plants that I did on the upstairs balcony. Three troughs for the front garden to stand on the edge
where Mr. Terminix needs to make his small trench next year and three ‘bodger bottoms’ for the deck that we harvested from
the beach – the parent plants are making sooooo many babies at this time of
year. Bear pottered, swept and tidied in readiness for the painters..... and
checked in on me often. Talk about low spirits.
  Friday
the 3rd. Waited for the painters......Mmmmm. Managed a few little jobs
but nothing of great import. Had an extensive planning meeting and stopped to
admire the deck from below and above. Went for a swim.
 Saturday the 4th. After breakfast Bear spent a long time
getting the larder into the correct position as the rest will line up with it. I
tiled the downstairs toilet splashback and Bear stopped to cut the white borders
for me. I finished and set about the tiles I could fit in the kitchen window and
Yehaa Bear fitted the cupboard over the fridge as well as the one next to it and
what a pose...... A bit fed up that we should have
been showing a ‘before’ and ‘after’ kitchen picture but It Is What It Is..... At
five we went for a swim and as a treat I made the hard worker chicken stew,
roast potatoes and parsnips. After showers we took our supper upstairs (I had
salad and spam as my treat) to watch some more episodes of The Sinner, great
series, well written......yet another week finishes.
ALL IN ALL
UPS AND A FEW DOWNS
I DESPAIR OF THE PAINTERS
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