Back to the Future

So we have rented a place in the village Wikaren. It has a nice big patio with a well in the middle..... which is the only source of water! I will need to post you a picture of the kitchen which is sort of stone age in its fixtures and fittings. I am trying to approach this with a spirit of adventure.

the good news is (pause while I touch wood) that the building is going up quite quickly so maybe I will not have to live there too long. I know as I write though that things in Morocco always take much longer than you think they will.

Not sure yet when I will be moving... we need to sort something out about internet connection before I can move anywhere so it is not going to be immediate.

Is there anyone out there? When I started with Blogger I got quite a lot of comments but it has all gone quiet... so I have no way of knowing if anyone is reading this.

I have been busy all week writing a business plan for a client, including a marketing strategy.... which always make me think of Ratbert. Hope you all enjoy the cartoons.

June 17th

Just a quick update today as I have a mountain of work waiting to be done...... I am about to embark on writing a marketing plan! First I have to work out what one of those is.

It has been really really hot here this last week... so hot that even inside my lovely cool flat it has started to get very hot around midday! All the cats come home and throw themselves onto a cool bit of floor somewhere and drowse around for the rest of the day. Finally yesterday we had thunder and lightening and rain and this morning is much cooler.

I have at last managed to get all the paperwork done for the renewal of my Carte de Sejour... now I just have to turn up at the police station once a month to get my receipt stamped again and see if the new card has arrived....... I have just realised one of the bad things about moving to Wikaren will be that I have to go to the awful police station in Agadir to renew my card next year. They were really unfriendly and unhelpful - as well as being inefficient. At least in Taroudant they are friendly and helpful.

Mohamed has been getting up every morning and heading off for Wikaren. He has been gathering all the building materials and getting a temporary water supply sorted out. The land has more or less been cleared of stones .... and more stones gathered for building and I think they have started digging the foundations. We are going to build as much as we can of the outside walls in stone as this will be cooler in the summer than concrete blocks. This will make the building process much slower though.

Mohamed is on the look out for somewhere local to rent while we are building - to save on the 70km round trip every day. But I dread moving twice!

Anyway I had better get on with some work

not last night.....

At last the land is registered.... all we need to do now is build.
I am in the throes of renewing my carte de sejour - must go out and get a new letter from my bank manager. I am not sure the relevance of this... would they throw me out of the country if I didn't have any money?
We currently have grandchildren visiting. Well actually 3 little kittens who bear a striking resemblance to Sami and Elvis/Marmela so they could well be offspring from Max or Elvis. I know that we can't really keep them (five cats is quite enough, 8 is more than enough) but at least they will be a bit stronger to deal with what life throws at them. Yesterday Marmela decided to be a surrogate mother to them and she is keeping them licked and cuddled - I am not sure if she is actually producing milk or not.