Another day and Nun switched his phone on, only to tell me he's waiting for Nek to pick him up and bring him back. I told Nek to do it fast as the boys can't work on their own, partly because they don't want to and partly because they have limited resources. They can paint, but that's about it, and there's lots left to do, as you can be sure I pointed out.
Later I rang back and said can't you sit on a train or bus? It'll cost about 150 baht. He sounded as if this was the first he'd heard of these modern marvels and said he'd have to confer with Nek.
Later still he had some other reason why it's going to take several days, so I told him not to bother. The welder can apparently also plumb, and the coat of tile putty on the roof can wait till another day. Instead Nek can make me a little roof over the back door from the leftover iron or wood. All that remains is to add handles to the first-floor windows, put obscured glass in the top-floor windows, make a bathroom threshold and drain, and to sand down the botched paint job on the shutter and spray it instead. Oh, and replace the doorframe on the top floor. And put in some porous barrier in the courtyard to keep the sand in but allow the rainwater to flow out into the drain at the back.
PS: And fill in the hole next to the back door. And put a strip of rubber sheet at the bottom of that door.
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