4 October, 2021 19:19

Blick aus dem Fenster “Waldlehne”

Time to relax

It’s been a hard week. We don’t use the sauna a lot, but I think we’ll miss it. Really good today!

3 October, 2021 21:05

The roller worked really well. All this without a ladder. Worked as hoped!

New Toys

Inspired by the midnight decorators ideas and needing some stuff anyway we went to the DIY shop yesterday. Never difficult to convince Astrid to go to one, the hard task is getting her to leave! We picked up a few things. The scraper also fits on the top of the

Unaufhaltsam

Ach wie ist der wunderbar und schafft für die kleine Küche plötzlich eine ungeahnte Grösse. Der Durchbruch ist fast noch schöner als ich ihn mir vorgestellt habe. Und der Flur ohne dunkle Farben. Da haben die “zwei Engel für Charlie” richtig abgekratzt, was zu Kratzen ging. Leider fehlt der dritte

One man and his crowbar

No, it’s not a new album by Half Man Half Biscuit but the fruits of my own labours today, removing the rest of the boards in the bedroom. The boards were mostly held down by these barbed tacks. They generally came up easily with a bit of a twist

The fruits of other people’s labours

Most of this was still red yesterday. And, as anyone who’s ever done any decorating knows, anything above head height is pain in the arse! Thanks again to André and Bine who didn’t do the sensible thing and give up on the traffic and go home. We have

Bilderrätsel

Ich hab erst gar nicht geschnallt, in welchem Gulli Bine da hockt. Bis ich gesehen habe, dass es die obere Treppe ist von unten fotografiert. Perspektivische Verwirrung!

Ich bin sprachlos…

… was für waghalsige Einsätze heute trotz Verkehrschaos. Danke, Danke, Danke. Und was sich unter Bodenschichten und Verkleidung alles findet. Das ist so toll. Jetzt ist zwar wieder ein Loch an einer Stelle, wo keins sein sollte, aber wenigstens weiss man, was dahinter oder darunter ist. Im Schlafzimmer also roter Lack.

The B Team by Candlelight

Really is going above the call of duty. Doing a full day’s work, getting stuck in post-lockdown crosstown traffic and still putting a shift in! Thank you so much Bine and André! (Though you did offer… and you know no good deed goes unpunished!)

Please Mind the Gap!

Obviously, with the layering of floor coverings the doors had to be trimmed. We’ll be doing the same with ground floor, but that’s based on the carpenter’s advice, who reckons removing the titles would be a lot of unnecessary work. But upstairs, it doesn’t really make

The Boards in the Bedroom (continued)

After a little tentative exploring with a screwdriver that mainly just breaking up the chipboard I could see a little bit of red. So, it was obviously time for the crowbar! With this it was fairly easy to “pop” the boards up over the nails, some of which turned out