The kids and the neighbours woke up to the sound of the builders demolishing the courtyard wall with one noisy jackhammer and one very large sledgehammer. Let's hope none of the tourists had a hangover this morning. The wall is now mostly gone, leaving our poor house looking even more battered than before.
The truck bringing our pool paving broke down on the way from Wellington, and they had to get someone to help out with the delivery. When they had finished offloading the pavers, I couldn't see any pool coping so I marched over to the guy who seemed to be in charge and asked what had happened to the rest of the stuff, but the poor guy took a few steps back and said he's just a farmer, doing a favour for a friend, and that the broken-down truck still had a few tonnes of pavers left on it. The truck couldn't be fixed in time so they had to go back to fetch the rest as well. Clever Oom Jan sent his younger son with the truck and then headed off to the hotel for a beer with his older son. 'n Boer maak 'n plan. The rest of the pavers arrived at about 18:00, and the pool coping was there too.
The pool is now back in after the mix-up with the levels, and they seemed to spend most of the day filling it half-way up, adding a few shovelfuls of sand along the sides and sleeping in wheelbarrows.
Nothing much else happened -- some tiling, some grout here and there, a few switch covers. No sign of a plumber today. Will keep my fingers crossed for tomorrow. It will be such a relief to have the kids' rooms completely finished. I really need to get some stuff out of the dining room. To make room for more stuff. What fun, moving stuff from place to place, getting it all dusty in the process.
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