Doch allerdings…
… haben wir noch die Brombeermauer vor uns. Und leider schläft dahinter auch nicht Dornröschen, sondern die Gartenabfälle der letzten Jahrzehnte. Egal..wir werden auch das noch schaffen…irgendwann😁
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Berge von Geäst
Berge von Geäst
Farbenpracht
Wir hatten uns zwar nicht den sonnigsten Tag ausgesucht, doch der Herbst birgt wunderbare Farben
Grundordnung
im Garten muss ersteinmal wieder die Grundordnung hergestellt werden. Gut, einen Profi an der Seite zu haben, denn es lohnt sich, Bäume und Sträucher erstmal zu erhalten, auch wenn sie auf den ersten Blick nur störendes Astwerk sind. Daher sollte man nicht zu schnell und zuviel kappen, wozu ich sicher
Hinterland
Gestern waren wir erneut im Hinterland mit Gartenprofi Petra.
New Arrivals
It’s another miserable November day in the Rhineland: we can have weeks of morale-sapping greyness here. So anything positive is welcome and today the tiles for the bathrooms arrived! Of course, Ivan promptly asked where was the cement? Are we supposed to think of everything? Unfortunately, yes! Still there’
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A Just Reward Ivan and his colleagues, one of whom is his son, have been working really hard for us. So it was time to say a little thank you.
No mail today
Took the old letterbox down today. It will be recycled in Münster when Gianna and Henning move into their house next year.
Making mess while the sun doesn’t shine!
With work on the flooring due to start next week, it’s time to get the last bits of really dirty work done in the roof. So out with the old wallpaper and on with some plaster which will hopefully be dry enough by Monday.
Spot the wall sockets
I came to the house this morning for some therapeutic plaster watching. The walls in the attic were plastered on Saturday but the guys forgot to mark where the wall sockets were, which would mean the electrician having to find them before he can get on with his work. Fortunately,
We’ve come to fix your water pipes
(You’ve got to imagine that in a Ray Winstone voice) Okay, so they’re at the wrong house again, but, give them a break (milk, 4 sugars) because they have at least turned up. I asked the workman when they were likely to be doing our house an he