greetings and blessings from bruno IN SRI LANKA!!!

HI-DEE-HI CAMPERS!
i decided to come over here to sri lanka and supervise and scrutinize things during the final week of the build
i wanted a holiday so i thought i could pay my own way here to do that and see the project through to the end myself at the same time

no pics to show you but when i get home and upload what i have so far, even, you will be delighted with how things have gone at the Dayawathi's new home

today all the painting is finished outside and in

tomorrow wed 19 all the shopping for furniture, kitchen, clothes etc etc will take place [great excitement, as you can imagine]
the old lady, mrs dayawathi herself asked with a toothless sideways grin for a little TV and as most families around there have one, even the poorest go without just to have one, i thought we could stretch the budget...

then THURSDAY 20 SEPTEMBER 2007 [put it in your diary kids] is the MOVING IN DAY to end all moving in days!!!

the Dayawathis [all 10 of them] will most gratefully and ever humbly take ownership of their brand spanking new home - completely fitted out [within local norms] and wearing frsh clothes and sleeping on fresh matresses and drinking their own fresh water from their own well just outside the backdoor no-less.

i feel so overjoyed to have been part of this and thankful to you all for responding so quickly and so generously

before i leave on friday morning for ireland, the builders and everybody will have been paid in full and every last penny of the total budget will have spoken for [and accounted for]

your adopted family here on the sunny southcoast will have spent their first night in the house and no doubt will also have had their first fight over who sleeps where and what channel to watch on the tv [sri lanka's cricket match or some old lady in a sari singing next to a palm tree at sunset!]

remember to check back in on this blog next week for all the pics!

love and respect to you all

bruno