Sunday 28 December 2008

Tree felling and Furniture buying

Our neighbour had complained that one of our trees was overhanging his workshop roof and, in the recent gales, bits of the tree had started to fall down. Steven and Ken decided to become lumberjacks for the day and fell the tree. At it was overhanging the neighbours property, all hands were requried on deck as the tree was roped up and bits of it were cut off with a chainsaw.
Ever the opportunist, Ken seized the chance to pose for a few pictures in preparation for his forthcoming phone call to a "no-win-no-fee" claims company.











Unfortunately, he missed the point that one actually needs to be injured in the accident; and that crawling under the tree whilst posing for a photo doesn't actually count! No doubt we'll be hearing from his lawyers in due course.



"Bah. Humbug!"









Meanwhile, Simon completed the work on the tiling of the bathroom and some minor adjustments to the electrical system. Much more sensible inside tasks whilst the weather was approaching zero degrees outside.

On a recent "expedition" to a local brocante shop, we spied a rather nice dark wood dresser to go with our dining table and chairs. This was purchased at a very reasonable price and delivered straight away. It goes really well in the dining room with the other furniture. We also managed to bag two single beds for the second bedroom into the bargain!

Thursday 25 December 2008

Christmas 2008

It's Christmas day and look who appears to have been warming his toes on our new wood-burner!












And he managed to get all those toys down the chimney too!














Thanks also goes to Rudolph and his chums for all their help in pulling the sleigh from Lapland to Creuse last night. We didn't see that one coming!

Our Chrismas Eve dinner was a enjoyed by all last night. We made use of the dining table we bought at the Brocante in the summer and also came across a set of 6 great dining chairs to go with it in a local Troc store. We were joined by Ken and Jeanette (Barbie). Now we have a gas hob as well as our electric oven in the kitchen it was easy to cook the meal.