{"id":1875,"date":"2012-11-19T18:46:15","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T18:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.visitgalicia.co.uk\/?p=1875"},"modified":"2012-11-19T18:46:30","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T18:46:30","slug":"a-good-day-for-a-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visitgalicia.co.uk\/?p=1875","title":{"rendered":"A good day for a list"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s a while since I’ve done a list and today it feels right to do so for it has been quite a frustrating day.<\/p>\n

I was awoken by the shrill tones of my Spanish mobile phone, for which I have still to find the volume adjustment, at the unearthly hour of 8:05. It was Facundo, with some problem regarding the bathroom tiles I’ve ordered, but at such an ungodly hour and still wiping the sleep from my eyes, I was at a loss as to what. We agreed to meet at the building supplies place an hour hence. But he didn’t show, even after I waited for the best part of an hour past our scheduled rendezvous.<\/p>\n

I then went to site to find it deserted except for a few upturned wheelbarrows so I did what you should always do in such a situation, I tried to salvage the day by going to buy some wood from the timber merchant for whom Neil had kindly e-mailed me the co-ordinates.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I followed the satellite navigation\u00a0instructions and drove past\u00a0an immaculately clean lumber\u00a0yard with the\u00a0system still telling me that I had three kilometres to drive.<\/p>\n

Then, exactly where Neil had said it would be, was a ramshackle merchants with cut, and uncut, wood wherever they could squeeze it, knee deep mud, and not even a simple doff of\u00a0 the cap to health a safety. What a brilliant place!<\/p>\n

I found the boss, Jose, explained my requirements and placed my order. When I asked if I should pay now or on collection he looked at me like I had gone mad (which I interpreted as ‘on collection’), before helping me plot a safe route through the mud back to my car (which I’d sensibly left by the roadside).<\/p>\n

So, onto the list;<\/p>\n

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  1. An Englishwoman with a leaky roof trumps an Englishman with a porch to construct in the Facundo division of labour calculations.<\/li>\n
  2. I’m none-the-wiser as to Facundo’s no-show, but after talking to the guy at the merchants I have sorted the issue and he will now tell my builder.<\/li>\n
  3. We have two choices to get Internet at the barn, neither are perfect or fast, but at least we appear to have a choice.<\/li>\n
  4. Our neighbours from Madrid are lovely, but struggle to understand my Spanish. Perhaps everyone else is just being nice, and they are being\u00a0honest.<\/li>\n
  5. When agreeing to take a coffee with neighbours Miro and Elena there is only one permissible answer to the question ‘would you like some chupito<\/a> (the local home-brewed fire-water) in it’<\/em>, and that answer doesn’t begin with an ‘N’.<\/li>\n
  6. Miro and Elena have a water supply from a spring in the hills, which runs through our property, and which had I not known about it would have seen us cutting them off at some point in the next couple of weeks as we dug the channel for our septic tank.<\/li>\n
  7. You don’t have to have a manly handshake to own and run a timber yard.<\/li>\n
  8. Enrique, the donkey,\u00a0now definitely associates me with apples and I feared for my\u00a0life as he cantered towards me when I was in his field earlier today.<\/li>\n
  9. Everyone is keen to know when Amanda is next coming out to Galicia. Not that I am developing\u00a0a complex about it.<\/li>\n
  10. Cascade taps are four times the price in Spain that they are in England.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Hopefully, tomorrow will be a day of work. After bumping into Angel at the house at 5:30 tonight he assures me that they will be there tomorrow,\u00a0mob-handed.<\/p>\n

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