A momentous week - Tuesday 22nd May!!

The real vista from the front of our house, showing our nearest neighbour
approx 400 metres away!

Tuesday morning we were up bright and early as we had Next Communications coming early to de-install our internet connection and transfer it up to the new house. They had previously had the old owners as customers and had done the same for them the previous Wednesday. We had packed the car the previous night with more stuff to transfer up to the house and the plan was I would go up there and wait for the man from Next to arrive up there and do things up at the house while Stuart packed stuff up in the kitchen etc ready to be taken up to the house later that day. 


I set off at 8.40am and pulled out of the underground garage only to see the Next technician already there early! Result! I let Stuart know he was there then set off up to the house and called Stuart to let him know I had arrived and he said the Next man was already on his way up to us at the new house! He arrived within about 15 minutes and set to reinstalling the connection for us. While he was doing that I began my chores. I got two full loads of new dishware and cutlery washed in the dishwasher. Then I had begun washing the 6 loads of washing I was to end up doing that day - 3 lots of sheets, two loads towels and some dirty washing from the apartment. All of it dried the same day too - which is amazing! We have a natural sun trap with a 4 sided washing line erected there which is great for getting things dried in quick time! While I was doing all that Mer-K-Muebles called to let us know their driver was up in Bédar with our new dining table and chairs. We also thought he would have a TV stand we had purchased from their showroom too. When he arrived it turned out the specially made and ordered table with 8 chairs was only partially delivered. The company they ordered it from had only done 6 chairs despite the normal order being 4 and we had doubled it to 8, they did 6 - d0h! So they had to keep one chair back to send back to the company so they could make sure they put their mistake right with the correct colours! Also missing was the TV stand we bought. This despite it being a unique piece they had in their showrooms! So I called Stuart to let him know and he called their store. The problems with mobile telephone reception reared their head and the delivery man had no signal so the store called me to speak to their driver after Stuart gave them my number. They told him that we had to have it delivered as we had nothing to put our TV on! So it was arranged to deliver the stand later in the afternoon around 5.30. While I was there I made a little video out on the patio which I'll post here too!


After that had been done I locked up the house and left the machines going about their business washing dishes and now towels! I set off back to Turre to pick up Stuart as we now had to go and do a major shop to stock up the house with food. We went to a place we had found to pick up our new satellite TV box so we'd have something to watch later that evening. We also took a detour to Ferriteria Lopez to give them grief about the sun loungers we had on order as it was three weeks now and they were in stock and as we had now got the house we wanted them delivering. We had already asked on Monday but they had not arrived that afternoon. We popped into Trufi Bar for a good lunch before hitting up Mercadona. After we'd shopped we ferried all the food back up to Bédar, stocked the fridges and freezers and then set off back down into Turre to get another load of stuff to bring up that Stuart had packed that morning! By now we were beginning to feel like human yoyo's having done the journey to and from Bédar to Turre numerous times! We decided to sleep that night in the house. When it came to eating I said it was too much for Stuart to even consider cooking that night as we were both pooped. So we had a lovely snack meal of pate, cheese and ham on crackers washed down with Sangria! We watched a bit of TV and then hit the hay as there was another busy day to come!