In my last post I went far back into past, showing pictures of the history of our house. I think at some point I'd like to put together some sort of "then and now" series, using the old photographs and putting them next to a current one taken in the exact same spot. For now though, here's what happened in the last month or so since my last entry.
First of all, the lovely Marcel and his equally fantastic dad filled the little opencast mine we had going right in the middle of the house.
A bit of rebar
Some concrete
Freshly mixed, of course.
And into the hole it goes!
What a transformation! It starts off as merely a hole in the ground...
...first gets filled with a thick layer of sand and some polystyrene insulation material.
Plastic foil.
Then the first layer of concrete, the rebar and then...
Ta-daa! A nice, smooth, even layer of perfect
concrete and the "hole" is no more!
Woo-hoo, wallpapering! Everybody's favourite work. Long, unwieldy strips of paper that cling to everything but the wall they're supposed to stick to. And bucketloads of gloop. What's not to love? :)
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A well-earned tea break, courtesy of Marcel's mum. Home-made Christmas biscuits, cheese sandwiches, tea and candles. Happy 2nd of Advent!
With our stomachs full of Christmas tea and biscuits we were able to quickly finish wallpapering:
The kitchen looks completely different now. Almost ready! More to follow. For now I really should go to bed. Off to see The Hobbit tomorrow! :)
