He never checked to see if there was any water coming to my house.
My connection to the main feed line is still halfway down the slope, so it has to come back uphill, to where it crosses over the road then down and into my house. I’m going to have one more try at explaining what is needed, then do it myself at the weekend.
It is the most complicated insane plumbing system I’ve ever seen, the basic premise seems to be that gravity does not work here, so you can have pipes going where ever you want, physics and Newton are not relevant.
Long time readers may remember back in March/April I got involved with a landscape plan for Heritage Hotel here, that unfortunately got dropped due to financial problems with Heritage. What they ended up doing was taking some of my plan, and had Frank Haiku do the sculptures, but they never did the full idea so as the pictures show, you now have these magnificent sculptures set out in a wasteland of white coral rock, without anything to soften or cool the atmosphere around them. At least it’s a start I suppose. I would have put some greenery around them at least, to soften the building shape, and definitely some fountains to cool the air, but never mind, some of the idea got used.
I was at the PO again yesterday afternoon, I’m convinced Kennedy and I can come up with a long abstract canoe shape to go into the frontage, and I could use white and blue flowering shrubs around it for the sea and waves. I’ll keep thinking. Luckily I have all my Ireland photos with me, so I can show Kennedy the public sculptures in different places. Wellington has some great public art works, as does Ireland, so I’m sure we can work something out between us.
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My phone is working again, what happens is whenever Telekom have an outage, I have to take the battery out, take the sim card out, replace the sim card, battery, turn it back on, reset all the time/date/alarms and it works. I can see me putting up with that rigmarole every day too. Not.
Digicell didn’t get the contract, it has gone to some obscure providor based in Papua New Guinea, so it is going to be wait and see now. And it’s only for cell phone, not internet. Why does beating my head on a solid wall seem like such a good idea at times?
The chilli sauce is improving with age, 2 days in the bottles and it is slowly getting smoother to taste, still makes you sweat like a faucet is open, but the sharp bite is mellowing now that it has cooled down. I’ll have to start a bottle collection, the Chinese Rice Vinegar bottles are ideal, all I have to do is find a dozen or so before next weekend. I’ll do another photo set for making it next weekend again, a few people thought the last curry making set was hilarious, so we’ll have another attempt with making chilli sauce. And you’ll get an idea of quantities as well, my ¼ pineapple, handful of chillies, a few of something else is hard to describe accurately for those who like precision.
The EU Grant has been approved, which gives us €100,000, or close to SBD$1.1 million to play with over 2 years. So the nursery is looking like going ahead finally, there are still another couple of Grants to be finalised although they are like the icing now we have the main source of funding to get started. It’ll take a year or two to get fully established, then hopefully we can cut out the begging bowl approach and be self funded and not reliant on Aid money.
Loved the pictures of the post office planting beds, now you see the plants, now you don't. If you hadn't mentioned that the sculpters were on white coral, I would not have realized that as I thought they were installed in the middle of the white parking lot. They are neat carvings but from a distance they look like the remains of support pylons for a now-torn down car-port structure. They are so forlorn sitting out there in a barren area without any greenery. Up closer, it all looks unfinished, which it really is.
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