A random selection of things things week:
Hens in lavender. Not ours, but they could be. Don’t they look picturesque? And think of all those eggs...
A visit to a salvage yard in La Louviere, and some pretty encaustic tiles. It turns out they will buy our original 19th century encaustic tiles (uncleaned) at euro 5 per square metre, and sell us a different set (cleaned) for euro 175 per square metre. Hmm, you know what, we’ll think about it. At least it injects a bit more purpose into our tile cleaning endeavours.
Yanking off the ivy from the garden wall. Very satisfying. We’re going to have to decide what to do with the garden wall: probably scrape back the peeling paint and apply a coat of limewash. Something else to occupy us while the builders make up their minds whether they want to give us a quote…
Removing the patio tiles and piling them up for later use. Not sure exactly where and how these will be used, but worth getting them out of the way of the digger. If it ever shows up…
And if all that seems like a rather weak attempt to distract you from the fact that there is no news on the building work actually starting, then you’d be right…
Rest assured, we will be announcing it with trumpets when it actually happens.
