Jetting out

Ha! that caught your attention!

However the jet is actually the jet-washer (Lidl´s as you didn´t ask) which has now been in use for about 5 days or so and we can really start to see the effect. If nothing else, the new patio areas "blend in" with the jet-washed areas rather well (see below). Little lime bearr was repotted into a larger container this morning as a way of celebrating.

I also had yet another go at getting the sahara dust out of the pool - so now up to 2 vacuumings and 2 sweepings. God only knows what the neighbour´s pool will be like now as they haven´t touched it this year - and this stuff seems to set a bit like concrete (which it may well be - maybe it is Dubai dust, as isn´t that supposed to be the largest building site in the world after Casa D?).

The building work here is now complete and Jairo the painter left yesterday lunchtime having done the arbour, new patio walls, utility cassita and bits and pieces around the new flower beds. Oh, and he did the "jasmin" wall from top to bottom (which unfortunately necessitated the hacking of the bush at it´s most floral point in the year). And finally, he went up the flagpole (ok, roof) and did a couple of coats on the chimney - which, along with the dodgy tiles, or, more likely, because of the dodgy tiles - has been annoying me for a few years. Repatio´d satellites, retiled and repainted - Google can come and take pictures any time they like (well, don´t they do that anyway?). Or they can just use this triumphant shot.