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4th December 2019 #1
3 months working/ holiday
Well we are here, yes in Marikina for 3 months, what seemed like a long journey last Thursday/Friday seems like a lifetime away now.
Lots to do on the house to make it liveable but we have given ourselves 1 month to try to get it there then to move in and finish it off.
After a drop or two of rain the other day from the typhoon today looks like a beautiful day so it’s of to the shops for building supplies and then to do food shopping for our body supplies and then it’s to work , my job I have been told today is sifting the cement ready to plaster the walls with.
It’s much more fun in the Philippines.
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4th December 2019 #2
Snap!
I was up there on the 4th floor sifting sand today Steve.
Not easy sieving damp sand either!
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5th December 2019 #3
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Blimey... sounds like hard work that mate.
Enjoy !
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6th December 2019 #4
that will sweat off the lbs
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7th December 2019 #5
Sifting the sand, not cement , yes I sweated like a pig, plus the next day I was on the roof deck sweeping it and again sweating like a pig, so hot up there.
It’s coming on slowly but what’s the rush we are in the Philippines now.
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8th December 2019 #6
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9th December 2019 #8
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9th December 2019 #10
My pads photo taken a while back but they are still yet to finish, i will start work on them again after xmas
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13th December 2019 #11
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Wow... you and your Mrs own all of them ?
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13th December 2019 #12
they were started just as we left to go to ireland , 2 years away and only the shells to show, and badly done, i spent a lot of time and cash doing back jobs, still not 100% how i would have wanted but good enough now, 3 of 5 to finish, cant trust the builders to do anything right , they come with a spirit level a plumb line and thin clear plastic to use as bubble level for flooring, but still nothing was straight or level lol, originaly i bought the land these were built on , it ajoined the land that belongs to the mrs, when we went to ireland i sold the land to her son, to pay off the fees for selling the comercial bulding we built, her son owed me some money plus the investment i have made for the building, now i kind of own them, in a legal contract that gives me the power to do as i will for at least 5 yrs, then he can if he wishes pay me or fall into default, which means i can keep or most likely i would just continue , after all someday it will all be his and Lolitas anyway so he wont lose , my investment is his and Lolitas gain when i kick the bucket lol. also if Lolita should go before me a forigner can own by inheritance, so i cant lose in that senario which i hope will not happen
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17th March 2020 #16
BB174EEE-8A82-4893-8724-994BB6468140.jpgB7EF8AE1-F757-45FB-BF96-B914BCC67BEA.jpg6D4AB76B-C989-46BE-9B4A-95F4562C035F.jpgEC3E14B4-12AD-46CE-9EAB-6362D1B972B8.jpgThose 3 months had flown by , back home in England now , here are a few pictures of what we have been up too.
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17th March 2020 #17
The house looks fantastic Steve, when are you going to fix the wall and what looks like a garage sticking out like a sore thumb,bringing the tone of the property down Great job on the house looks a million or 2
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17th March 2020 #18
Ooah!! Very posh Steve. You are now officially rich over here.. Cut a big hole in that wall.
You can slot the ATM in it for them.
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17th March 2020 #19
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19th March 2020 #20
The wall was going to be painted but it would have had graffiti on it later I am sure so it’s staying like that, that garage thingy is to stop the rain running down into the windows and doors, it was going to be a carport but the money ran out.
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19th March 2020 #21
Rich me, maybe the family thinks they are rich now, the ATM has run out of cash if you get my drift, and there will be no more that’s a GUARANTEE
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27th March 2020 #22
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I think he meant the garage thing to the RIGHT of your (very smart) place, Steve me old mate.
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