Health & Safety Portuguese Style

Surprisingly it is 5 years since the house was finished and due to settlement and earthquakes we have a few cracks in the internal and exterior walls, so it is time to get them repaired and the house painted.
Unfortunately Mrs Lynette managed to get hold of the pantone colour chart that has more colours than Joseph had on his dreamcoat, which in turn most of them managed to find their way onto a section of our walls in a test area to see which colour looked best.
Over a period of 3 weeks we have whittled it down to about 10 colours and finally to the chosen 2, which the painters are now busily applying and at their speed will take the next 4 weeks, I prefer to think that they are doing a thorough job.

Now that we have put the clocks back for winter, they arrive each day at 7am disturbing Mrs. Lynette's sleep and start by moving their tower frame across the calacada making a noise like thunder which doesn't put her in a good mood for the day and of which I always get the backlash.
Having moved the tower to todays chosen spot, they then secure it with a thin piece of wire as you can see if you look very closely at the picture, and that is all that's holding the tower from toppling over.
Now that the tower is secure, they ignore it and choose a ladder instead.


In the second picture, they throw all caution to the wind as they continue to work on the roof without the aid of a safety net, Billy Smart would be very impressed.



And if that wasn't enough, for his finale, he balances a ladder on a couple of pieces of wood on the roof, whilst he paints underside of the roof tiles on the roof above, piece of cake really.





It just gets worse, found this one yesterday, he was hanging onto the pillar with one hand and painting with the other, I hope he doesn't need to scratch his nose.