Isn't peeling wallpaper FUN! The sound of the 2" strips just ripping off the wall sends chills through my spine in anticipation of the wonder beneith. Shit. The room in question is the old dining room next to the Little Kitchen, the green and pale green and yellowed dirty white paisley pattern had finally worked it's magic on our brains and Kelly started and I soon picked up the task as well. Scrape, pull, rip, climb, scrape, pull, rip, scrape, rip...on and on for hours and up and down on the ladders to get to some of the more inaccessible locations behind water pipes and bizarre electrical thing-a-majigs...brother. A beautiful Saturday like this set to waste with this awful task, what is wrong with us?! Furry just walks into the room, it's floor coverred with thousands of 2" X 2" peices of ancient wallpaper and looks around, up and down at it as if to say, "Why did you screw up my purr-fectly good sitting room where I can vomit in peace under the lovely grey chairs?! Why?" Because we are DRIVEN you useless furball! Driven!
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We grow ever closer to having the bottom story of the olde place recoverred if not entirely refurbished...at least it looks better to US than it did, whether or not we have gotten the sequence right or not, well that is a question isn't it? Who knows, maybe we'll have to pull some of our cover-work down and fix a leak pipe or two, or rebuild the wall or...who knows? It's an olde place, it's been here longer than you dear reader, I and Kelly PLUS our two cats have been alive and I suspect it will do as well FAAAAR into the future. Once we sell the little house and get that money into our hot little worn out hands (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=130234244587&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT&ih=003 to see it and
MORE PICS AT http://flickr.com/photos/hnlute/ Go to SETS then click on DIX or go straight to the pictures of the house at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/hnlute/sets/72157605912040170/ )
the roof will be assessed once again and a brand new INSULATED one will be installed by SOMEONE ELSE! Then what? Well, we have a plan to build a veranda structure between the two wings in the form of one of the lovely iron ones common in Paris. All glass and arty-like. We like the one we had built for us in Suisun a few years ago so much we'd like to replicate it here in sunny and warm Lignieres. We shall see what time tells us.
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What I wonder is how the hell we are going to get HERE next spring what with all the airline cuts. Booking the journey ought to be a thrill that's for sure, big bucks and few flights with many more stops. Shit!
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