Today the hotel is nearly empty, only 10 rooms have guests in so we are trying to get some maintenance work done. This is not proving to be easy even though Eve arrived today, the painters haven't been paid yet and have done (badly) several rooms and the restaurant already so are basically striking until they get some money, I guess they think we won't pay them anything if they don't do this, which seems like it's not too unreasonable considering the credit we se...

This week I have mostly been folding bed sheets! We were sadly to discover that Yvonne's parting shot was to break the dials on both washing machines which added to her day of not washing and being chucked out Sunday put us 2 and a half days behind on laundry - or for a more graphic picture, literally an entire guest room floor to ceiling with dirty sheets, towels and pillowcases! I took us until Saturday to catch up and Vincent and I must have clocked up about 2...

As we have so much work to do and aren't getting time to write we might do a 'week commencing' style blog for a while and only write on Mondays.Today I began to paint the wooden bases of 10 sun beds. It was one of those 'if you want something doing…' moments. Obviously as soon as I'd settled down to enjoy an afternoon in the hot sun wearing my shorts and happily painting I got called away to sort out housekeeping again.Tuesday. After a somewhat stressful mornin...

We went out shopping today. With Eve it's a much more relaxing experience, Sam seems to remember where the brake pedal is and Eve is a no nonsense shopper. We got fabric for cushions for the reception n pink and black and blue pool bed mattress cover material. Each time she said 'how much a metre' and the guy would say '60rs' then she'd say 'how much do you have?' and the guy would unravel the whole thing and say '12 metres' and Eve would just say 'OK I'll take i...

Today I went shopping with Sam, He needs someone to keep an eye on him and make sure he buys the right things. The problem is he is totally disorganised. We wandered around various little shops for home use not business and he just bought up whole stocks of washing powder or rice at retail home price. No wonder he always runs out of money for things. The market was crowed as anything as its nearly Diwali and everyone wants to buy stuff for the celebration. We wen...