Wednesday The day started off easy enough with an expectation of just doing some video editing and then getting some gardening done. My plans were scuppered however with an email from my other employers asking for a quick bid review proposal. First things first though Matt gave me a crash course in video editing – I can’t honestly say I am great at it but I think I managed it
Read moreMonday Weather is miserable today. If the pools of water on the garden table and chairs are anything to go by the strange haze yesterday was another Sirocco. Looks as though Meow appreciated the after lunch cheese scraps though. Also seems that the geothermal engineer is booked for exactly the same time as my only conference calls today. I managed to move the first meeting but then they were running
Read moreSaturday Another busy day in garden. Of course Matt has been up for hours already, apparently on the ride on lawn mower – I have no idea how I couldn’t hear that but then I do sleep like a dead baby. Since I am up though I helped him with the plaster for the kitchen – taking photos and passing things to him counts as helping right?! Since there is
Read moreThursday Pretty early start this morning, which was a bit of a waste of time as the other person didn’t turn up. Gave me an early start on the day though to make some more time to spend outside. No bad thing either as it was far too nice to be head down working all day. I picked up my secateurs to take a brief sojourn into the garden and
Read moreMonday First thing and just as I am getting up there’s a slightly panicked shout from Matt for me to come downstairs. There’s a lady at the door, apparently asking what she wanted was a very stupid idea, of course he has no idea ‘it’s just a lady speaking French very quickly’. It’s the lady from the department who has come over to set up the radon reader. It’s part
Read moreFriday Meeting, meetings and then the architects arrived. They were a nice couple of ladies, Leila’s husband is English so she’s pretty fluent. We showed them round, had a chat about our plans for the house and showed them the plans we’d drawn up. What we really need to spend some time on is working out the budget but it’s a bit of a catch 22 as it’s hard to
Read moreMonday I think I may have done too much exercise last week that required me to be bending over as my back was really aching today. Also generally feeling at bit under the weather. I’ve now got the reading materials through for my new job so after my obligatory conference calls I decided I would wrap up warm back in bed and read up. Matt’s done some work chasing the
Read moreSeems as though it might be the last nice day for a little while and Matt is keen to get going. I managed to refrain for another hour and relax – it is Sunday after all! When I do get downstairs, I find Matt ticking off one of the things on my ‘other list’ (the one full of those priorities which aren’t actually working on the house itself). Checking, servicing
Read moreWell that was a surprise. It seems that the sky has been raining wet sand… There are reports all over France (and indeed Spain and Austria) of waking up to a yellow sky. Apparently, it’s something called ‘Sirocco’. Sirocco occurs when a tropical, stationary air mass over the Sahara is found between a high pressure area vertically above the Tropic of Cancer line and a sudden area of strong depression
Read moreMonday Pretty slow day. Matt is super busy with work. I’ve done a few bits and pieces but things just aren’t falling into place hopefully work will go better tomorrow. Exciting delivery today though, Muma Camp bought us a wildlife camera as part of our Christmas presents. It’s going to take a while to get it set up and working in the right place but hopefully we will finally get
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