{"id":1409,"date":"2013-07-18T21:18:22","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T21:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=1409"},"modified":"2017-07-16T08:35:31","modified_gmt":"2017-07-16T08:35:31","slug":"thursday-18th-july-2013-mystery-solved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=1409","title":{"rendered":"Thursday 18th July 2013 – MYSTERY SOLVED"},"content":{"rendered":"

It wasn’t the old abandoned house that fell down the other night. I managed to have a wander around there to see, and although I walked past it twice without seeing it, because it was so covered in ivy and weeds and so on, it’s still there, or, rather, what’s left of it is,<\/p>\n

But I know what it was that made that noise.<\/p>\n

I managed to make my way down to the compost bin today (high time I emptied the composting toilet – it certainly needed it) and I’ll tell you what – a cordless Ryobi Plus One hedge trimmer makes a magnificent strimmer for dealing with tall grass and weeds and the like – it’s a long time since I’ve been as impressed as this. <\/p>\n

But back to the plot<\/p>\n

There are piles of dead wood and twigs and branches covering the bottom end of my garden and there, in the next field where Lieneke had a huge old tree of some description, well she doesn’t have it now. <\/p>\n

There’s about two metres of stump and then there’s absolute carnage. I’m not surprised that it heaved me out of bed.<\/p>\n

\"shower<\/a>As for the shower room, well, it’s all finished as far as I can go until I buy the tiles.<\/p>\n

And it was finished at lunchtime too (mind you, it was 14:45 when I stopped).<\/p>\n

The good news is that the sink is not 50cms at all but just 43cms. That means that I can have a 45cm worktop instead of a 52cm one and that will give me much more room.<\/p>\n

I have to admit that, in all honesty, my shower room is not going to be the place to be for anyone suffering from claustrophobia. <\/p>\n

But there will be plenty of shelving and even a very small 20cm deep linen cupboard.
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But seeing as I had finished by 14:45, how come I didn’t knock off until 19:45 then?<\/p>\n

The answer to all of that is that, as I explained just now, I fought my way down to the compost bin, and that wasn’t the work of 5 minutes either as you can imagine.<\/p>\n

And once I had finished attacking the vegetation, I emptied, cleaned and recharged the composting toilet. And it needed it too, as I have said.<\/p>\n

After that, changing the habits of a lifetime, I attacked the the room which will be the bedroom and which I’ve been using as a workroom. <\/p>\n

A pile of wood went straight out of the window for a start, and then I started to sweep up and tidy up. 3 large bin bags of rubbish and a bin full of sawdust for the toilet, and it’s not finished yet.<\/p>\n

But it’s amazing the space that you can make if you put your mind to it. <\/p>\n

I’m going to have a serious go tomorrow and see if I can’t make enough space to lie flat all of the sheets of plasterboard instead of having them propped up against a wall bowing away to themselves alarmingly. <\/p>\n

They ought to be lain flat but I’ve never really had the space to do it.<\/p>\n

Tons of tools recovered, as well as tons of nails and screws, and I bet that there will be others recovered tomorrow. But I’m not going to do too much – I have a pile of correspondence to deal with and some of that is urgent.<\/p>\n

I felt like cooking tonight too, and ended up with a gorgeous meal – potatoes, carrots, cauliflower in a cheese sauce and a veggie burger. Absolutely marvellous.<\/p>\n

Went down a treat with the ice cream sorbet that I bought for myself as a treat for finishing the shower room.<\/p>\n

And we’ve had a storm tonight. First rain since July the … errr … 2nd? And we needed it too as the water situation was getting desperate. <\/p>\n

I’m glad that I cleaned out the filters the other day.<\/p>\n

-5<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div>
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