What - does no one read this thing?



No one has told me that I haven't posted anything ALL YEAR. That's all of 2006. All 2 and a bit months that I haven't updated, and no one seems to have noticed.

Am I talking to myself here?

It's not that I've been stuck in a cave for the last two months. Far from it. We've been rather busy (although exactly what we've been doing has escaped me at the moment). Steve's work on the house is progressing slowly as February and january normally involves colds and flu for both of us. Although he's starting laying the tiles on the middle terrace. Not that we didn't have a floor on the middle terrace, there were some weird concrete non-slip type tiles (I don't know how to describe them, but they are pretty darn ugly!). But we wanted to put hot water into the garage from the existing hot water heater. Previously, the house has two boilers. So Steve dug a channel across the terrace and stuck in some hot water pipes and another conduit for.. well, not sure really. I told him to stick another conduit underneath just-in-case. Maybe we want speaker wires into the garage. Or another electric line. Or... I dunno. Just as the channel was there, why not!

So since we have to now cover up this channel, we figure put some nice terracotta tiles out there. Looks much nicer (not that it's finished, but it WILL look much nicer). We bought about 27 square metres of these tiles from our current favourite shop, Creixall, in Palafrugell. They are very thick (much thicker than normal tiles) and in hindsight, we probably should have made two trips. However, we didn't. We stuck all 27 sq metres in the back of the Nissan (which we still have, but is still for sale!). Driving away, I said to Steve, "Wow. Is it really that windy out?" and he replied "Nope. Not in the least. I think the front wheels are barely touching the road..." And he says that so calmly!! Doh!

Of course, doing up your own house means that sometimes you make mistakes. So we were trying to solder the new connection onto the existing hot water. Yes, WE, because I'm the one who apparently knows about soldering. (Yes, Steve, soldering itty bitty silver things, not big copper and brass pipe thingies!) Needless to say, we screwed it up and didn't have hot water for a day or two. Steve's made a temporary repair and we'll get someone in to attached the new piping to the old. And I'll stick to soldering jewellery, thank you very much.

Posted: Mon - March 6, 2006 at 02:01 PM        

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