The first thing that went through my mind, when I read this article in The Independent, was that “Dementiaville” must be just like the village (Portmeirion) which the British cult TV series “The Prisoner” was set in. The Prisoner, an involuntarily retired British secret agent, was held in a village at an unknown location . . . → Read More: Dementiaville
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Our new bell Close up of the bell When the electrical work for the house was planned, a front door bell was foreseen, but since visitors need to ring at the main gate from the street to get into the garden, we thought a bellpush at the front door was unnecessary and . . . → Read More: Low tech #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 50%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } Wet here today… … and still pouring down It has been raining heavily for most of the last 24 hours here. The . . . → Read More: Wet…
Ruth's favourite occupation of the last few days In the last few days we have assembled quite a few IKEA cupboards and shelves. The worst part of the process is that IKEA sticks an IKEA label onto almost every piece of the kits. The most difficult to remove was the safety warning that children . . . → Read More: The first interior pictures of the house María Pedro took some good photographs of her work when she was at the house just before Christmas. (If you click on any of the photos, you will see a slide show with larger pictures). They show off the garden nicely and give you an idea of how the garden looks at the . . . → Read More: Pictures of our garden Today we managed to get to the post office (no big feat, it is open daily from 8:30 to 20:30 hrs Monday to Friday, and Saturday mornings, but we have spent nearly all our time working in the house) and organise a post office box. We had gone to the vast expense of . . . → Read More: Our postal address in Spain
Casa la Abuela: In the background the arroz al horno, waiting to be served Yesterday the work on the house was finally completed, we are very pleased with the result and think everyone involved has done an excellent job. People told us we were mad to build a house in a country . . . → Read More: End of project
Mussels on sale in our local supermarket today I have just been down to our local supermarket to buy some last minute supplies before Ruth arrives, and the fish counter was overloaded with nets of mussels. They seem to be very popular at . . . → Read More: Christmas Mussels We have been waiting for the last two weeks for our phone to be connected by Iberfone. We were given a number, but Iberfone couldn’t get a free port in the exchange to connect us. Well 5 minutes ago, I had my first call on the phone – not that Iberfone had called to . . . → Read More: Landline works now
Pouring the concrete for the drive Today the last major item was delivered for the house – the concrete drive! The lorry turned up at about 8 o’clock this morning, and pouring and finishing took until 2 p.m. The concrete was smoothed off after it had been poured – over 20 tonnes altogether . . . → Read More: “Installing” the last major item |
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