Monthly Archives: October 2002

Now a much lighter note, Darryl has again pulled out all the stops and is still on schedule, although a little tight, to give us the house on Friday. Re-Mer are fitting the replacement worktop this afternoon, working late if necessary and the cabinet makers are fitting doors and locks everywhere. The painters have finished … Continue reading »

Early morning start as we needed to be on site when Simtas called to remove the offending worktop. Before they arrived out came the digital to record all the damage and errors, don’t know why we did that, just a feeling I suppose. Eventually they arrived at 11 a.m. and made one more offer,

Big meeting on site with Simtas, Darryl (to help with the language problem), Joan and myself. We made it very plain that their unprofessional work was totally unacceptable and that they had to replace all damaged and incorrectly cut pieces by Monday latest. It turns out that they had insufficient of the same colour to … Continue reading »

Today was a really early start. Ian & Dorothy arrived on the night flight at 0530 and we met them to take them to their hotel. They are here because construction has started on their house in Ilgaz and they need to agree fittings etc. with the builder. No doubt there will be a few evenings … Continue reading »

We have seen some real progress this week towards completion. The pool crew have laid lots of the tiles, in fact the sides are completed and grouted. In the house the painters are very active, almost all of the interior is complete by now and they started to paint the first coat on the facia … Continue reading »

Early start today, we had to be on site to meet the painter by 8 am, then go to Nicosia to collect our car from servicing at 10 am, then back to Lapta to meet the telephone man, together with the other neighbours.  All of us needed to meet together, because there is a cost … Continue reading »

The weather here is still very hot, in fact it has gone back to almost July temperatures, after a couple of cooler days and some cloud cover, so we did the only sensible thing today and went down to our favourite Lara beach. Have to admit though that the water temperature is going down rapidly, … Continue reading »

One more trip to Nicosia today with Kemal, because today we have been here exactly three months and had to complete our driving licence application. Technically over here if you don’t have your licence within three months you car insurance is nul and void. Because of the earlier delays in residency, due to problems with … Continue reading »

Went with Kemal, his young son and his father in law, to the first premiership game of the season. The team to support is Kyrenia who play in a red strip and their No 9 wears white boots. But there the resemblance ends. Lots of real enthusiasm and some reasonable skill, the ref’s yellow card … Continue reading »

Site visit to check progress again. Saturday is another work day here so the Number 1 walling team were still very busy. When all of this stone walling is completed and our gates fitted, it is going to look stunning and give a real finish to our garden and patio. The kitchen is beginning to take … Continue reading »