Title courtesy of my favourite Hot Chip song. So we’d been getting by with just those €5 black cardboard things over the concrete floors, but that was actually pretty depressing after not very many weeks, […]
In case you were wondering what a ridiculous number of tyres looked like, here you go. Note: this is the first in a series of back-filled posts to cover the months I’d neglected to write […]
The main room has been plastered now – the external walls were dry lined first to help out a bit. It looks much smarter, but we now need to wait another week for the plaster […]
The verdict from the pump engineer was that the well wasn’t Wet Wet Wet enough (an appalling reference to the post title), and they were keen for us to look into getting another one drilled. […]
It’s a surprise to nobody that we still don’t have running water. I took the morning off from my current client work to meet the well engineer at the bog house. The pump itself wasn’t […]
The electricity got connected on Thursday, a mere three weeks after we paid them to do the job. Of course, as soon as it’s done, all is forgiven! We were so relieved to get to […]
So we’ve got until the end of this month (March) to get the bog house sorted now. The builder managed a couple of days of work last week, which has resulted in the kitchen being […]
So I’d contacted the estate agent we’re renting through on Friday morning to request another month’s extension to the lease in order to minimise stress. No bother, she’ll let the landlord know, happy days. Lunchtime […]
An up-beat post for a change. The bog house has come along nicely, with the ceilings all insulated and boarded, and quite a lot of the walls too (more than we’d actually thought they were […]
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