Well all good things do come to those who wait, and have we waited. It's taken ten months to arrange our licences for the pool and general alterations all of which have gone ahead un opposed at each stage.
My prediction of a month's wait was for once wrong and they managed to do the last two weeks admin in three weeks, the lovely wife got a call to pop in to the architects office and drop off the cash so he can pay the bill for the tax's and collect the licences.
After popping in and returning the next day, it was the simple exchange of 2.5k € that saw our acceptance of a bland piece of paper that is apparently the holy grail , our licence . No wax seal, no ribbon , just a wishy washy rubber stamp and a squiggle.
In addition we got the technical specs for the pool and plans starting from a view from space swooping in to a 1m scale on the back page. A very proficient use of Google Earth, there is just the one drawing that has been created by our architect and yes you've guessed it it's wrong.
We've chosen not to argue the point as we've waited long enough and we have what we need, but what a waste of time , a tech spec that is a generic print off n fill in the gaps followed by screen captures from Google and when he finally get to flaunt what he learnt at the collage of architects his lack of note taking on the site visit and consultation with the client leads him in to guessing the , what , where , how stuff and substituting a generic Roman style pool for our square end flat bottom uniform depth swim pool , and placing the filter in a box in the middle of the path rather than in the filter house ? Well it only extends the pipe work 15m each way with all the incumbent friction , so that's ok , it'll make for more storage space in the now empty filter house.
But at least we're now officially off the mark, did we party ? Well no, it was rather odd really , I think the on off delays and then the errors rather took the edge off leaving a flat feeling not the excitement you may have expected.
So now a week later the only builders to be seen is in the lovely wife's tea mug, as they have started another job and are tied up for a week or so. Hay ho , it gives us more time to tile the family bathroom, a project we are doing our selves and is the first step of putting in the finishes , hooray !
Those of you who manage to hang in there and are kind enough to read my ramblings as I unburden my mind before it explodes with the overload of official jobs worth's, may remember the lovely wife's trip back to the UK in July and the subsequent farce created by monarch when they cancelled her flight .
as we now know all good things come to those who wait , they also come to those who won't take no for an answer , after four months of us not accepting no, they have finally accepted that their staff at Alicante airport were in breach of company policy and committed acts of gross mis conduct in their handling of the cancelation.
The long and the short is that if monarch cancel a flight you are entitled under their policy to two land line international calls from their desk or to a phone card of equivalent value supplied by the desk, they advise you this in the hand out when you check in for a cancelled flight.
In the lovely wife's case the failure to honour this after they advised it caused nearly 500€ of additional expenses due to losses that they this week refunded after initially offering just 20€ for a meal and coffee. So if you are wronged stick to yer guns and be over the top logical explain every thing assume nothing. Remember all things come to those who wait, and keep replying to e mails. LoL
Til next time...