{"id":1934,"date":"2012-12-13T20:50:16","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T20:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.visitgalicia.co.uk\/?p=1934"},"modified":"2012-12-13T20:55:42","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T20:55:42","slug":"a-place-for-poo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.visitgalicia.co.uk\/?p=1934","title":{"rendered":"A place for poo"},"content":{"rendered":"

So much has happened today I can’t fit it all into one blog, so this mornings excursion to the carpenters in La Roda will have to wait until tomorrow.<\/p>\n

I’d decided to treat myself to fifteen extra minutes in bed\u00a0before my planned trip to the coast to check on the progress of the windows, but the still ‘badly infected’ Facundo had other ideas. He rang me at some ungodly hour under the pretense of checking a measurement\u00a0for an internal wall, but what really he wanted to tell me, was\u00a0that today was the day that the big excavator was going to be on-site.<\/p>\n

I changed my plans and headed to the house, a day watching a digger was way too much for me to resist, especially as it was tearing up\u00a0our land to clear a channel for the drains and to install the septic tank.<\/p>\n

When I got to the barn there was no sign, and the guys working on the now ‘confirmed measurement’ internal wall were aware of the diggers likely arrival but had no idea when. I graciously accepted a coffee of my new friend Joaqu\u00edn (the plasterer) who brews it from water taken from the water-butt on a small gas fire. It has the consistency of treacle and it\u00a0blows your socks off!<\/p>\n

An hour later there was still no\u00a0hint of a diggers appearance\u00a0so as it was cold and raining I reverted to my original plan and\u00a0set off\u00a0to visit my windows and doors, call at the bank, and so a bit of food shopping. I rushed around\u00a0my three ports of call,\u00a0and made it back to the barn by 12:30, but still no sign of the digger.<\/p>\n

At 12:45 it arrived, was unloaded and then everyone went to lunch.<\/p>\n

I wasn’t going to miss the action and ensured that I was back at the barn for 14:15 to see\u00a0what action would\u00a0unfold. I have to say that I was incredibly impressed with the amount of work that one man and his machine can accomplish in just four hours. For that is all that it took for him to dig a\u00a0fifty metre trench, fell three trees, bury the septic tank and then cover over his tracks.<\/p>\n

The bucket was like an arm, picking up just what he wanted, gouging out rock like a handful of popcorn, and sweeping tonnes of soil and debris as though brushing off dust. He was a man totally in tune with his machine.<\/p>\n

Here is what he achieved between 14:15 and 18:15 (costing me just four hours of\u00a0man and machine).<\/p>\n

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Miro, our next-door-but-one neighbour had informed me a couple of weeks ago that his water supply came across our land, which was the first we knew about it. As soon as he heard the machine, he\u00a0came up to the house to make sure that we didn’t cut through it, and cut him off.<\/p>\n

But of course we did! One thin plastic pipe\u00a0was no match for five tonnes of digger.<\/p>\n

Angel, then the new\u00a0worker ‘whose name I don’t know and am too afraid to ask’, and then Facundo all got their ears bent by a quite\u00a0agitated Miro. To me he just rolled his eyes, and I smiled back, I was on his side. Fortunately, pipework and connectors were magically summoned from\u00a0the local town\u00a0and the repair effected, and Miro calmed down a little.<\/p>\n

We now have all the necessary pipework in place for the bathroom, kitchen and guttering drains. I feel that today, of all the days so far this building season, we’ve made real progress.<\/p>\n

An added bonus is that the removal of the\u00a0three trees has improved the view no end, and they will give me chance to get my wood pile off to a good start, once I’ve had my basic chainsaw operator training from Neil.<\/p>\n

But that will be another story, providing I still have the limbs to type with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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