21 August, 2024 21:09
Oh. Mein Mann hat offensichtlich angefangen, hier wieder etwas zu posten. Haben wir denn noch follower?
Charlie
Sorry for the lack of updates
It’s not as if we haven’t being doing things on, in and around the garden, but first, Tumblr became unusable for a while, then forced shitty ads on everyone and then the need to login to read. 🤮 For anyone using Android I can recommend using one of the
Josefine’s Hidden Path
While I was digging up an old yew tree root at the end of the garden, I noticed there was some stone there. So I decided to dig a little and found a paving stone. Then some more! There must have been a path here at some point. We can
They’re back! And this time it’s war!
Hello bramble my old friend I’ve come to slaughter you again! The drought is already causing problems for the grass around the base of the pine tree. But the brambles are fine. At least they’re easier to spot! Can’t really dig them out anymore so just going
A rose by any other name
We were given some lovely roses for our wedding and got round to planting them at the weekend. A bit late in the year but, now that it’s getting hotter and drier, the only thing to do. If you look carefully you’ll see that they have pipes. The
Garden Update
I know we’ve been very remiss if late. Things have been going on but, fortunately, just not as much! But, now that spring has finally arrived, we’ve been able to work in, and enjoy, the garden. And it’s really starting to look like one! The photos are
Mirrors, mirrors on the wall
Towards the end of the year, we finally got round to choosing mirrors for the bathrooms. They had been one of the many items we’d been able to postpone. Important but difficult to get right. We’d had some discussions in the summer, with Astrid keen on frames and
I simply cannot be bothered!
This really ought to be my motto. Shortly before Christmas the beer was ready. It’s a bock style beer and the label is a German play on words with bock also meaning desire or enthusiasm. So, it’s the beer you can’t be bothered to drink. I haven’
Bottle up and go
I finally got round to bottling the beer. This should have happened weeks ago but I just never got a round tuit. I’ll just pretend it was getting extra matured. The alcohol in the beer will prevent anything growing in it and that air trap should prevent it going
Remember, remember the fifth of November…
We used Bonfire Night as an excuse to invite over some of our friends who helped us with house last year. While we did have a little fire in a brazier, we didn’t have a guy to burn, fireworks, parkin, toffee apples or treacle toffee*, the weather held and
Stepping out
This was the patio just a few months ago Ivan relaid the flagstones but there weren’t enough for the whole area so initially we covered the rest with some gravel. With the subterranean window removed it was possible to fill the shaft and make steps from the living room.
From Design to Reality
Given that removing the tiles from the old kitchen was one of the first things we did, it’s kind of surprising that we never got round to getting walls straight. We weren’t sure whether we would increase the size of the kitchen, we didn’t know it was