March 2010

Echo

Yep, there is an echo in our lounge. Today we moved the lounge suite out and are now left with mostly empty space, ready for the carpet cleaners tomorrow. It is quite similar in the other rooms, including the garage, actually so we are really getting there well ahead of time. I also replaced a […]

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EuroTrip

Catch up

Gee, time flies when you are having fun, last update was on Tuesday. In the meantime it is official, all documents are signed so the tenants are coming. Bad news is that they want hardly any furniture and no crockery so we will have to squeeze even more into the various places. I managed to

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EuroTrip

Signed!

Yippee, we got tenants, a load off our minds, pity there is no champagne in the fridge. I suppose a Castle stout will do just as well. Now we need to know what furniture needs to be moved out and then we are A-4-away. The cleaning up of the workshop is going reasonably well if

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EuroTrip

Longmore

We thought it might be a good idea to do some mountainbiking this weekend so, like the good guys we are, we got a permit yesterday and loaded bikes into the car this morning and off we went, parked just on the other side of the Van Stadens river and chose to go up the

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Travel

Resumption

Today was toy time and running around time, no work was done. We kinda felt guilty not having cycled for a while, could not believe it when I downloaded the track that it was a whole 7 days ago that we were last on the bike, so we should have done a short trip but

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Travel

Maybe, maybe

No pics today, just happy to report that some more jobs bit the dust today, kitchen door fixed, cornices trimmed and put back, cover for cellar fitted, got micro sd for gps and got it to talk to Mapsource and to top it all Mariana phoned to say that tenants check is ok and they

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Travel

Catching up

A lot of water has gone under the bridge since the last post, it takes a lot of discipline to update a blog daily and very easy to put off when there are more relaxing activities, or should I say non-activities, to take care of. First my birthday last Monday, it was more like a

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