Month December 2008

Well, you remember the little brown art deco stove that we bought in February – it needs new glass for the window, so yesterday saw us trailing around Zafra to crystalias asking for glass for the window. Everyone said the…

Christmas is very quiet here. Father Christmas or Papa Noel is regarded with suspicion as being a bit of a pretender. Everyone knows that the three kings bring the presents on the 6th Jan – not some old (American) geezer…

The weather has been glorious over the last few days. It is very cold at night, but is over 20c during the day. Naturally with our house being so well insulated, we don’t feel any of the benefits of the…

Well, I read something about someone who hadn’t checked their premium bonds for years and checked them to find that they’d won several thousand pounds. So, off I went scurrying to find our ‘important paper file’ which was buried under…

The Spanish word for the tiled walls that we have is the equivalent of ‘skirting board’. You either have tall or short. The half way tiling like we have in the hall is tall, the small tiles that we have…

Above: This is looking to where the sink used to be. The old kitchen / new bedroom is within a gnats whisker of being finished. It does look good. While we weren’t 100% convinced by the white tiles, now they…

Well, how frustrating! We’ve gone from quite a good financial situation to not a very good financial situation, due to the pound to euro exchange rates, in what appears to be the blink of an eye! We still have the…

Tiling in the new bedroom. This has been a bit of a trauma and has taken a couple of attempts before he has been happy. The issue has been about how he handles getting the inset bit central. We were…

The ceiling has been repaired above the door. This is from what will be the new en-suite into the new bedroom (old kitchen). This will be the ‘window’ from the new ensuite. This is the old kitchen soon to be…

Our builder is flitting to and fro from our house to his family’s matanza today. A matanza is the killing of a pig where family and friends get together. They start the day with a live pig and end with…