Well we won a Gate on eBay FR. Of course he won't ship it, of course. Therefore we must go and get it, all 377 miles down and 377 miles back. We won't do this in one day either, two down and one back is the current plan. The Gate? It's to replace the gate we now have between the alley and the courtyard which is of some fine wood with a twirly-gurley art nouveau iron gate, much more in keeping with the olde ruin than the somewhat plain-jane wooden one. The new (old wreck really) gate is located deep in the south of France very near Nice. in the hills just beyond the coast. It's all rusted and sad looking now but after we load it on the roof of the trusty ol' Avensis and haul it back I'll see if my friend R or A&R will/can sandblast the bad stuff off, I'll apply a metal primer and we'll paint it black. We bought the bloody thing for about 165 Euros...at the current exchange rate that's $257.40 USD. That's cheap as these things can go up to $2000 depending on style and condition. Old iron sells. New ones are ok...boring but available, olde ones suitable to us for this house are NOT so available and thus you must use eBay to find them and typically they are expensive. This one's pics on eBay FR were awful, I had to enhance them with Photoshop so we could eye it with some detail. Looks good.
NOTE: At least it DID...as the seller guy has now returned our payment! Huh? So we write back once again to straighten this mess out hopefully and schedule the trip. Oh Jezz.
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