Now that we have a house, we get callers at the gate.  At the weekend there is the fish and shrimp man, with buckets of really fresh stuff.  We bought a Dorado the other day, had it filleted on clean newspaper in the street, and it fed 5 of us.  With it we had our own limes from the garden.

One day during the week, there is a vegetable man, whom it is useful to use, since you can buy quantities you could hardly carry home.   Today we bought 15 mandarins or $1 and two pineapples for another one.  If you go to the supermarket, they have the really big pineapples, larger than my head, which we really don,t need.

The garbage men drive past every day but Sunday, playing their tune, and we hang a plastic shopping bag of rubbish on a convenient branch of a tree just outside the gate, and it is swept off into the truck, so they hardly even slow down.

The eletricity bill and Internet/phone/TV accounts are shoved into the gate every month, and the other day I had a man selling honey in 500mil bottles for $5.

However, the Jehovah's Witnesses have also found us!