The attic room has two new skylights and a lot of roof insulation. No walls yet. There will be photos soon.
If you're curious about, interested in, or annoyed by the lack of, explanation and detail behind stories of tech and science in the news, try the science behind it (still being developed).
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Friday, March 13, 2009
Bernay and buildings
In England, and car-lagged. I was sorry to leave (it was 21deg C yesterday, and there is much that needs doing in the garden). I shan't be there for discussing where to fit the skylights and build the shower-room walls, but I trust Ben and Camille from Casa Nova to pick good places.
There's one part of the route north which has a whole series of roundabouts with right-turns to Bernay. This time I drove through Bernay instead of around it. What a surprise! Most towns in France were severely re-built around the eighteenth century and there's little of the medieval buildings left: it seems to be concentrated here, in street after street of timber-framed houses. There are many houses in the Dutch-barn/Flemish shape, too. I was so busy goggling at architecture, I got thoroughly lost; no great problem as it meant I could go round again via a different route through the town. I didn't have my camera with me, so we shall have to be content with piccies on the interweb. Ooh, there's even a bernayphoto.blogspot.com! Unfortunately short on visible architecture, but I like the Goat Riding a Bicycle.
There's one part of the route north which has a whole series of roundabouts with right-turns to Bernay. This time I drove through Bernay instead of around it. What a surprise! Most towns in France were severely re-built around the eighteenth century and there's little of the medieval buildings left: it seems to be concentrated here, in street after street of timber-framed houses. There are many houses in the Dutch-barn/Flemish shape, too. I was so busy goggling at architecture, I got thoroughly lost; no great problem as it meant I could go round again via a different route through the town. I didn't have my camera with me, so we shall have to be content with piccies on the interweb. Ooh, there's even a bernayphoto.blogspot.com! Unfortunately short on visible architecture, but I like the Goat Riding a Bicycle.
Monday, March 09, 2009
Forget-me-nots and lords-and-ladies
$Friend has been here for a week, doing a huge amount of clearing and carpentry and varnishing of floors and putting up of roof insulation, with a little plumbing on the side. Excellent chap. He's thinking of going into business as a handyman, and I can recommend him.
Today I drove him to Bordeaux airport. The weather is lovely, all warmed up again. Just before he arrived it was warm, the day he leaves it's decidedly spring, and the week in between was cold and nasty. Argh!
In fact, spring arrived so suddenly that the wildflowers came out all at once. The vineyards which had been mostly brown in the morning were decorated with blue and yellow carpets of myosotis and various other blooms, only three hours later.
Today I drove him to Bordeaux airport. The weather is lovely, all warmed up again. Just before he arrived it was warm, the day he leaves it's decidedly spring, and the week in between was cold and nasty. Argh!
In fact, spring arrived so suddenly that the wildflowers came out all at once. The vineyards which had been mostly brown in the morning were decorated with blue and yellow carpets of myosotis and various other blooms, only three hours later.
Sunday, March 01, 2009
Dydd Dewi Sant
It's Dydd Dewi Sant and the daffodils are blooming in the garden. Suddenly I feel a long way away.
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