A week's work

This week I have been labouring for Ellen's cousin Sean and his partner Alice, at their house in Berhampore. The rear of the house had trouble with damp because the ground level was too high so I took out the path and a lot of the soil down to below the level of the floorboards. Wellington is extremely hilly, and this house is high up with the only access a steep stair so there was a lot of toing and froing with buckets. Hard work but I felt a sense of accomplisment, and lots of good memories of previous jobs. And at least I am getting more than the ten pounds a day that Dad saw fit to pay me when I was sixteen!

Next week Sean plans to get the roof prepped and painted so I'll be doing that, and then the exterior walls. It is really good to be working outside, and when your employer leaves you chocolate muffins, and beer, you know you're on to a winner!

I am planning to fly back to Hawaii on March the 17th