The delivery driver who delivered the tiles shortly before 5pm told me that it hasn't been this cold at night in early October for many many years. I'm delighted to report yet another victory over the Evil Southern Developers at Appeal. Weekend update. 1. Given the ingenuity and resourcefulness demonstrated by the Best of British during the last 9 months, I am looking forward to Britain becoming Great again. We're lacking direction as we are having problem sourcing appropriate professionals, my new keyboard is too clicky, and I'm having problems with my tits. Another 4 inches fell overnight. In the last quarter, our electricity bill for supply from the grid for Coven Sud was £4.85 (it's a tariff with no standing charges). All those years of business flying, having to fit personal luggage in with all the 'things forgotten from the shipped in advance items' finally pays off. The reign of control and fear encourages 'followership' and discourages critical thinking. I've had a very terse text at 11pm last night - which woke me up, so I wasn't very happy - from the Farm Manager who is VERY unhappy about the mess you're making. But this never happened and it was left open to the rain. This afternoon we watched Countdown (who knew it was now on at 2pm? Now, if they can just get my 'empty packets' and 'sync drops' fixed, I shall be very happy. said the shopkeeper's camp son (such fun). This is having to drop off the pipework for the upstairs radiators, as our exisiting under-floor-downstairs pipework, dating from the early 1970s, is low-quality unwrapped copper which is corroded and probably leaking, judging by the many patches of unexplained damp, and is being drained, disconnected, and blanked off. "But I didn't think that would work. Repair any rain-damage to any of the external cement rendering, as becomes obvious once it has stopped raining. And let's not talk about how one of my best washing up bowls has ended up catching sewage out of the old macerator where the old pipe (now cut off) goes through the en-suite wall into the corner of the finished Museum Room, shall we. And the minds of most of the locals. Similarly, yesterday (Sunday) I couldn't belive how many motorbikes were out - and some in big groups too. It's not very deep, but it is very crisp and even. And also the pattern of being messed about by architects and not-architects. It might also be to do with the existing black worktops, which will be disappearing in time. A true master of packing. The temperature has been hovering around zero for the past 2 days, and the snow is now crispier than I thought possible, so I expect Spooky Features is frozen through and consequently likely to be around for a couple of weeks yet. In other news, Late Leaky Unreliable Plumber (still apparently the best the area has to offer) excelled himself on his last visit on Tuesday, the day after it should have been. I have no idea how our plasterer can now plaster this area later this week. I don't know what you think about these images of the radiators 'installed'? It is at this moment that I remember that I left the bath upstairs running, 20 minutes ago. I've made a couple of slight changes, which I've put [in italics in square brackets]. The builders have used about 40 units of electricity this week. I don't know where the rest of the bumper pack of 100 rat/mouse traps are, and decide that there is definitely more chance of me stepping on it or catching my fingers setting it than there is of catching a mouse. Even the 'measuring and topographical service' (architects round here don't do their own measuring these days, which horrified my architect friend down south when I told her) who measured and theodolited on Monday, didn't manage to produce the resulting plan on Thursday as promised: it finally arrived at 4pm on Friday and then failed to provide the whole roof, as requested and checked on before the surveyor left on Monday afternoon. Luckily I remembered that I'd bought the floor tiles in an independent tile warehouse near Coven Sud (in 1997 and in 2006), and they still had some. In more other news, the very expensive indestructible floor treatment paint that Mr BW painstakingly applied to the greenhouse base floor is peeling off. Well, they might be able to, for all I know, but as they can't talk, they can't tell me what sort they are. We had a lovely 6 days down at Coven Sud catching up with friends, sorting out the buzzers (one naughty colony, lots of h0ney to be extracted on our next trip south as there are, unexpectedly, hundreds of acres of borage directly behind us), and taming the garden (I love it as overgrown and untamed as it was, but Mr BW doesn't, and nor, presumably, will the spurred-on-by-the-restrictions-of-lockdown Townies/Cityies who are likely to buy it in the not-too-distant future), and packing up more stuff to transport north. The post 3 Stocks To Help You Retire Rich appeared first on The Motley Fool Canada. SpaceX has gained worldwide attention for a series of historic milestones. he collapses onto it. For such a small order, they went to a lot of trouble, spent a lot of time talking to us, and lent us a sample tile without wanting either name and address details, or a deposit - I hope their blind trust doesn't get abused too soon in their entrepreneurial lives. Plus, it looks like the copper pipes for the heating system under the concrete in the ground floor from the 1970s have corroded and are leaking (hence some of the damp that we couldn't work out where it was coming from), due to bodges in the past plumbing and things that our surveyor said should be done at Vendors' expense not having been done/investigated properly, despite paperwork to the contrary. Clutching our DEFRA papers to allow us to travel to tend to our b33s, and various documents to prove that we are moving house, just in case, there was more traffic on the roads at the end of last week than we've seen for a long time. he said gleefully, as he continued to wield the scissors snappily and chop twice as much off today as he already had yesterday. could become "No mask no service!". We have finally discovered (from a visiting salesman yesterday) why it is taking so long for companies to supply quotations after visiting to see whatever it is we are needing to replace, and why lead times are so long. I can see why we normally have a month out of the country in warmer climes at this time of year. Mr BW will be glad to give up that 'social service', although he could write a book about his experiences. It's a very big book case and it was very difficult for Mr BW and Bookcase Maker Man to keep 2m apart, especially when unloading it and trying to level it on a wildly sloping floor. Replacing the rest of the kitchen can wait, as long as I have my Aga (which would have been the first thing to go in, had it not been for The Nasty Virus). Deputy Chief Builder and the Apprentice had a HUGE row about half an hour ago. The thought of staying or eating/drinking anywhere other than home at the moment is anathema to me. I reckon he is wrong. You just can't get the staff. 23.6% of residents are over 65 years old. It made more people understand the need to wash their hands frequently (although I think there should be much more 'public education' about viral and bacterial infection vectors and growth rates). But will they please pay their UK tax? have been threatening to visit for the past 6 months. Perhaps Amazon Prime have some. The Black Familiar killed 3 birds and 0 bunnies in our absence. The good thing is that, living in the middle of nowhere, if you have (another) bad day, you can stand outside and scream ilke a toddler, for 2 minutes, and no-one notices. But, I knew where I had bought the last tiles, in 2006, when we built The Studio at Coven Sud onto the existing single-storey bit (aside - looking for a particular product, we looked through the photos of that time - which was almost enough to put us off the idea of ever building an extension here) and assumed that they'd still sell such classic products. Those who lived through the second world war and were brought up under its hardships now face their latter years under the same sort of regime. Tiles now seem to be rectangular, hexagonal, metre square, or nasty trendy colours. For the past 26 weeks, it has been non-stop, and when I haven't been actually doing things, I have been asleep, sub-consciously Project Managing, and waking up in the night to order 'necessary things' online. 10 minutes later the dog's owner rang me. How much more than a cleaner is the CEO of a hospital trust paid? However, it's only temporary, no doubt, given the government's latest mad planning strategy. I have unearthed an old treasure (donated by one of my Patchy Ladies) that I'd forgotten I had, which can sit in the top glazed part with my many other old textile objets: The first day the washing dried completely on the line for months. I wonder if she even saw the script? Make dining room window watertight in lower right corner. But, in the past week it has begun to annoy me. In such countries, are those who can pay jumping the queue? It's possible that my spells might be going just a teensy bit awry. He came out to see us on Friday. I like square, because I like symmetry, and I like floor tiles laid diagonally as it makes small rooms look much bigger. 2 robins Administrative area containing Coven Nord: Popluation of 316,000 people in 5,013km² (has only County Council). There are very few 'pure white' tiles around now, and those are either rectangular, or huge squares, and seem to have nasty surfaces that will be a pain to clean. We have had a very very very busy week, but we feel like we are finally conquering the house, and should be able to get it waterproof and warm in the next 6-8 weeks, before it gets cold up here. Today is 26 weeks, or 6 months, or half a year, since we completed and moved in. And there is 'Orajel' recommended by the pharmacist in Boots, sent out by the counter assistant to see if I deserved to be able to buy co-codamol for tooth pain. And so it came to pass that at 10.45am I caught the 3 of them getting into one van. Doesn't seem a whole lot different down south looking at the weather on TV. In the early years it was often quite hard to find the money to put in a full contribution to ISAs every year (but, we always managed it somehow), and reinvesting them at the best interest rates at the end of each fixed term period took many hours of research. Waste not want not, and that sink is of much better quality than anything you can buy these days. "Ah, totally rusted out then!" Fortnite accounts for sale stacked og account marketplace. And then we're off down south for a few days as Mr BW's Mum is far from well. "To get a sandwich?" It's nice to have a tame carpenter for future projects. Eventually the tractor stopped, the farmer got out, unhooked the towing strap, drove the tractor past the van and back down towards the house, got out, reattached the towing strap to the towing hook on the front bumper, commanded, "First gear now!" - 5 state of the art gully tankers positioned throughout the county to deal with potential flooding caused by rapid snow melt I'm currently sitting in the conservatory away from their noisy wall chasing for the new pipework for the new downstairs radiators. I took one look at the back wheel, up to its axle in mud, and declared it was impossible to push forwards out from there, but somehow we managed it. request to our Big Greenhouse Base Builder. I don't think I have ever seen such a rapid transformation in weather, anywhere. I catch The Black Familar jumping off the roof onto the (disintegrating) coal bunker. 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I'd just sorted Mr BW out: categorically it was 1997, just as he'd got to that era in the photo albums anyway, when Dave rang again. "The lads'll sort it pronto, sorrys like, we needs to be cleaner, it wouldn't have happened if I'd been here yesterday!" I am hoping to find time to sort out my soft textiles room, and maybe do some spinning. I was immediately concerned that something might had happened to him and the dog had come in search of help, but got distracted by the fun of helping to mix cement. Hadn't heard, so rang him. We don't need one, just to know the going rate. He's been hiding in plain sight - lives in the nearest small village, but doesn't have/need a website as he gets enough work on recommendation. Mr BW is perfectly capable of fitting a woodburner to all the current legal standards (as he has previously proved at Coven Sud), and is much better qualified than those who do, but is no longer allowed to so do. I think we will wait until we're next down south - there are lots of small tile places on local trading estates, and one of them might just have 4 square metres of old-fashioned white tiles sitting around in a corner. We will expect this to be deducted from your bill. I go out. It was two and a half hours from leaving Coven Sud before we even saw a sheep from the road. This was the reason that BW asked you to remove the trims from that window, as the damage certainly couldn't have been rectified had they been left on. 3. Currently covered with old carpet and old underlay, and adorned with old shower trays, old windows, and old shower doors, it's a work in progress, and will be for another year or two yet. The nasty metal arch in the centre is rusted through, and the hedge blocked the view, and too much light. The Great Crested Grebe Cut. I only opened that loaf on Sunday! I can only think, "Good, that's at least 4 cups less coffee to make today then!". I still haven't managed to get near enough to the main PC to sort out the photos for the last post, although I have been busy sorting out, and finding new homes for the many items we brought back with us on Tuesday. It arrived, one minute after the notified time, but then took 3 hours and 20 minutes to be assembled and levelled. Bastards. he says, without looking up. It is peeping menacingly over the back hedge. Luckily I have taken over 800 photos of works in progress this week.