The carpenter has almost finished the timber on the roof at
Nemasu, so corrugate is needed today.
Steve, Kebba and I set off for Nemasu, leaving Fontou cleaning the
house. We stopped to buy faceboard for
the verandah and left Kebba to have it delivered by horse cart; whilst Steve
and I went off to buy corrugate and look for tiles for the floor. Shopping is relatively easy if you have
transport here; shops in the main commercial area are concentrated into like
kinds. All the builders merchants are
clustered around Kanifing, and so that is where we headed for corrugate and
tiles. We have built up a relationship with
some of the suppliers and so we went straight to Metallum for the corrugate as
they have the most choice and give the charity discount. We loaded the corrugate and then went to look
at the price of tiles this year. The
cost of living here is rising rapidly and all goods have increased this year,
especially anything which is imported.
We found some tiles nearly the same colour as the existing verandah at
Nemasu and ordered them for later in the week.
We managed to return to Nemasu in time for the carpenter to start on the
corrugate and then returned home. We
were expecting the plumber today as the new metal tower was ready and waiting
for him on our flat roof, sure enough just after the appointed time, Boto
arrived to plumb the tank into position on the metal tower. Now we need the tower cementing to the roof
and some damage to the floor and wall repairing, a job for Kebba when he has
finished at Nemasu later this week.
Steve and I went to Neils’ bar for dinner and tried again to
get on the internet, but because of all the power cuts the back up batteries at
Neils’ have not yet recharged.
We returned home to find Kebba and two helpers moving the
sand which had been delivered outside our gate onto the roof. One filling buckets, one outside the front of
the house and Kebba on the roof with a rope, pulling the buckets up one by one
from the second guy. All preparation for
the repairs needed later.
We spent the evening at home, again with no power, but the
generator has been fixed so we can at least have a back up supply now.
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