After the initial complexities of ordering the timber we required from the local timber merchant in Corfu town, working out how to actually pay given the restrictions on currency flow at the moment here in Greece, it was great news hearing those words from the timber yard by telephone "Mr Graham...your wood is ready for delivery. Can you call in and check it out first.....". No problem, I'll just walk 20 miles to the timber yard and check it out! Yes, we still have no car! Plan B worked smoothly though, hiring a scooter for the day for £10-50 (!) including fuel, visiting the timber yard, checking the delivery, then travelling another 50 km to Roda on the north coast and back to look at a possible car for buying; quite a busy day. Two days later a very large crane appeared at our gate, blocked the main access road for about 20 minutes and "air-lifted" our delivery into the front garden. I paid the delivery driver his 40 Euros and we then set to with moving the wood from the front garden into the outhouse in the back garden as well as into the basement. This stage took about two hours! There was a lot of wood and it was VERY heavy, especially the 8 x 4 feet 3/4" plywood sheets, all nine of them....Pleased as punch that the wood had finally arrived, I was not aware at this stage of the missing items but soon would be as the first task I had in mind for the weekend was to build the fly screens and mosquito netting frames for the windows. Start simple I thought, what can possibly go wrong; nothing, as the wood I needed for this task had not been delivered! Further investigation also revealed three sheets of MDF were missing that were required for the workshop worktops, task number two on the master plan. Now resolved, we are patiently awaiting the next delivery so we can get started on these items. So essentially work is progressing at about the same speed as traffic on the M25 during Friday rush hours. The delivery mix up has not caused a major problem as paint stripping continues on the three tables, quite a substantial task. The Bosch mitre saw has also now been powered up and allowed me to cut all of the pieces required to build our veranda sofa, the first of three, in record time. What a fantastic piece of equipment! It cuts through massive pieces of wood like a hot knife though butter and is laser-guided so incredibly accurate. Now I have all of the pieces, I have the DIY book open and looking at the best way to connect them all together. Now, over to YouTube for my next mortice and tenon joint instructional video.