Day two, and things had progressed better than expected!
The shuttering came off, the posts looked pretty straight and the local mom and pop store sent us a cake to say thank you for helping them double sales of beer and fags.
By lunchtime, the 'cousins' had called it a day with only my ramp and some rendering left to complete. What could possibly go wrong?...
Well, nothing! It's all good. No complaints, no sly bitching and no unfavourable and culturally inappropriate Thai builder rants. This doesn't make for a funny and interesting post but it is good for the old fella's peace of mind!
The sun skink was impressed. He moved straight in before the mortar had even set.
I did half-hope it got its feet stuck in the drying concrete cos that would have made for a funny, albeit cruel post, but no, it happily had a wander before disappearing back under a bush.
The builders even asked me how high I wanted the ramp before laying the shuttering. That's really strange. The usual MO is for builders to just crack on and guess what the client actually wants.
And that's how we left things on Day 2, which was actually yesterday.
Happy Nathen, happy wife, happy life.
Could anything possibly go wrong now?
I hope everyone's having an awesome and peaceful weekend.
@nathen007
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Did you construct something recently?
Sometimes builders ask to make sure...
I was wondering about your name, is it Nathan or Nathen?
Good morning :-)
This wall was finished yesterday. The house was 'finished' 18 months ago and after the nightmare we had during the build, it's taken this long to dare get some new builders to finish a few odd jobs that needed doing!
Nathen is a nickname I was given many years ago and you're absolutely correct, it was spelt wrong lol No one even calls me that anymore but I always kind of liked it.
My real name is Martin and its a pleasure to meet you :-)
Hope you're feeling better. Everyone I know has been struck down with colds, flus and viruses recently and even here, the weather is all over the place. I believe its due to El Nino so I hope it settles soon as we still have water shortages here on Koh Samui whilst up North in Bangkok, there are floods.
New week approaching and as I stare into my crystal ball, I can see you having a wonderful week. Seeing into the future is a talent I don't brag about too much lol ;-)
Take care of YOU, lady :-)
Wtf!! You're an imposter? And you're not called Nathen? Going to send this to the Sunday press now...
Front page, I just got mine delivered to the door. They missed, by the way, chucked it from the street and it bounced off the patio, fell in the damp grass and got soaked. All the pages stuck together but the cover's still legible.
He's Martin in Nathen's clothing.
When you're joining unknown scary social media and crypto blockchain shenanigans for the first time, who's going to give their real name? Lol
At least its an actual name...albeit spelt incorrectly..... 😉
Yay! 🤗
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Hope your builder finished the job promptly and didn't drag his heels like mine did
He's just finished, yesterday, on time. I thinks it's about as straight as your wall socket though!