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Archive for January, 2008

Office with a view - Reward for working Sundays

The renovation of the house makes steady, but this year somewhat slower progress.
One of the reasons for the “slow” is that I now have an office. An office with heating and a glorious view.
So getting up on Sundays just when the frost leaves and the sun shines and nipping into the smallest room of the […]

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

Smoke on the roof - Don’t be alarmed - It’s normal in Galicia

Hola
Feliz ano nuebo - Happy new year - Frohes neues Jahr
Finally the rains have come, with a vengeance. It’s cool and wet but when the sun peaks through all is forgiven.
Having had matanzas all over the place - yes here it is still custom to kill pigs at home - one now sees a lot […]

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

A minor project detail - The x-mas kitchen

Bodega to working kitchen in record time. 

It suddenly? dawned on us that we are expecting a load of friends, including two children for Christmas. To suitably entertain them and even more important feed a that crowd we needed the bodega to become the new kitchen.

Preparing for a floating floor, lime mortar for the old walls, central heating, a partition […]

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008