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Monday - The Workers ArriveOctober 12, 2009 Today is the day we get our wood-burning stove installed! We arose at dawn, fully expecting the workmen to be waiting outside. They weren't. I moved our car off the driveway, onto the open ground opposite. At 8:40am I walked to the shop with a list prepared by Jenny and returned with everything on it. Yes, the dogs barked at me. I spent acouple of hours answering emails and forum messages. Around 11am a large lorry pulled up outside and three men offloaded a stove and a bundle of pipes onto our driveway. This was followed by two young men in a white van. We invited them in and they began work. This is Spiros, the owner of the hardware store where we ordered the stove, checking the pipes before leaving the lads to get on with it. Hole in um wall. Drilling holes for screws to hold the chimney brackets. The completed installation. Our new wood-burning "somba". I help to clean up. Graeme turned up at 1pm to run more cables for the TV. More noise ensued but he managed to realign the aerial so we now receive 17 channels! Graeme discovered why Greek TV looks awful. The sockets are designed to allow "daisy-chaining" of the cable. This is an absolute anathema because it means that each socket receives only 40% of the signal that appears at the previous socket. By the third socket, there's no signal at all! Manolis and family arrived at 5pm with the new furniture. Here he is, looking triumphant. He screwed the shelves to the wall and also screwed a coat hanger to the wall as a favour. We paid him and off he went. Here's my new office corner. Jenny gets my almost identical computer desk and a set of shelves. It was dark by the time this was finished so I had a miuch-needed shower, then we drove to Vamos, paid Spiros in the hardware shop, then went to the taverna in Vamos for a meal. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
