Kate Pullen

I mentioned that we knew of the person who is going to decorate the house and that he was the one who had posted videos of the village on YouTube. He has uploaded a slideshow of old photos. We’ll try…

Well, we had a narrow escape from disaster – well perhaps not disaster, but certainly an escape from flooding. If you look at the back of the house now it is finished, you will see that not only are there…

Or how the small stove looks in our soon-to-be new bedroom (it looks tiny because it is dwarfed by the windows)….

Like moles we have come squinting out of the darkness of out living space and squinting out into the bright sunlight. Since the builders have finished we’ve had a lot more freedom about where we can sit without getting in…

This is our new door frame. We are keeping the old door, but the old frame was completely rotten, so this is the new one going in. I’m not entirely sure why there is a duvet hanging outside.

Pics of the front of the house. See a Tibs supervising the work in pic 2. The first pic shows how Manuel shaped the plaster around the windows.

Here’s some more pictures of the house. These are pics of the back of the house when this was being done. Antonio got sunstroke when he was working at the top of this scaffolding as he was in the sun…

We lit our stove! Admittedly, the fact that the windows were not in diminished some of the effect, but it certainly worked AND was still going this morning! We wanted to check that the pipes outside worked OK and they…

Well, after just over 5 months we said goodbye to the builders this morning. I think I was the only one that was sad. Unfortunately I got the word for ‘sad’ and ‘joke’ muddled up, so the builders have disappeared…

Well, there’s not too much to report on the house front. For the first time since the building work has been going on, Manuel has not been able to work. In fact, he lost two days the week before. Let’s…