Monthly Archives: August 2002

Hey they started to dig out the pool today. A little bit more soil for the farmers field!  The roof is also going on and much of the rough rendering work downstairs has been done. Things are really beginning to take shape. Exciting isn’t the real word!

Another site visit, this time to meet with the electrician to agree positioning of power points, wall switches, in the top house and under the covered veranda and utility areas. He is going to put switches upstairs in the dinning room to control the pool and garden lights, now that’s really posh and lazy. He … Continue reading »

Back out to Lapta again because you have to keep checking and the pressure on, otherwise our furniture will arrive and the house won’t be ready. We feel that just the fact that we keep going and then ringing with queries etc. keeps them on their toes. Who knows, maybe they would meet the deadline … Continue reading »

Joan and I went to Nicosia today to look at a marble and granite supplier. We have for sometime been discussing the kitchen worktop and whether to go to the extra expense. After all it is probably a once in a lifetime opportunity to have what you really want, for a price that is a … Continue reading »

Oops. This one got well and truly stuck. Obviously this is going to cause some delay because he is down to the axles at the back and looks very heavy. Apparently its already been there since yesterday  and they are still scratching their heads. Maybe somebody will think about emptying it and then using one … Continue reading »

During the last week we have been doing the regular things like, shopping, visiting the local police for residency purposes, buying a large standing fan, cause it is still bloody hot, and visiting the site to check progress. We have also managed to collect our house deeds from the local solicitors and the land registry … Continue reading »

We met the boss of Nature Gardens on site today to discuss walling, planting etc. He promised a full landscape plan. We await. We also need to discuss the walling with our builder because we need some 60 metres of retention walling as a result of the difference in plot heights and somehow I don’t … Continue reading »

During last month, we had bought a water cooler, the sun loungers and a radio/cd player from Ertugral Bildag, who owned a company called San-Ka Ltd. Ertugral (go on you pronounce it) is a retired traffic cop, who now runs this shop selling Bosch kitchen equipment among other things. Joan and I had become good … Continue reading »

Oh boy, did it hit the fan today. It would seem that Mustapha, had not asked the farmers permission to dump 500 cu metres of soil on his land, however temporary and despite the fact that the field was not cultivated. Mr Farmer, had gone into Cyprus Pools office threatening police, legal action, etc…. Fuat, … Continue reading »

We had managed to get a couple of days on the beach over the weekend, as nothing was happening on site and it was too too hot for anything else. On the Monday we went up to Karaman. This because; we had met David and Glen Rogers, at The Hideaway, last May. They live in … Continue reading »