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<\/a><\/p>\nThe position is perfect for two reasons. Firstly, it receives uninterrupted sunshine from first thing in the morning until the early evening. Secondly, how many people have a view like the next shot when they’re hanging out their washing \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
I did the job properly, dug a hole for it, put hardcore in the bottom and then filled the hole with several buckets of concrete. It took me ages before I’d judged that I’d got it completely vertical!<\/p>\n I received a call from the tiler this morning saying that he wanted to come and completely finish the job off by doing all of the shower joints. He turned up with his whole family, his wife who gave him a hand getting water and mixing the mortar (despite my saying that I’d do it), and his three lovely little children, a son and two pretty little daughters who also decided to ‘help’ in their own way.<\/p>\n He told me that they were leaving for holiday tomorrow and you know how it is with kids. I guess they were so excited about going that anything to get them out of the house and occupy them was a useful diversion \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n The good news is that although I haven’t got my shower screen yet, which I plan to buy next month, I’ll be able to use the shower from tomorrow.<\/p>\n Coincidentally I collected my floor laminate from storage this morning and moved the fridge so I could get past it. The best place for it was where it will eventually be and when it was in position the kitchen finally took the shape that I intended it to have in my plans. I just need to turn its door round.<\/p>\n So it only remains for the plumber to finish installing the WCs in the bathroom and separate toilet and the builder to remove all the rubbish that’s accumulated outside, both of which I assume will happen next week before the August break. The electrician will have to come back when the power has been connected but that won’t stop me using the house in the meantime.<\/p>\n There’s also another upside. Several months ago I made the decision to concentrate 100% on the build to make sure that it continued moving along and I got the results that I wanted. As a result and also because I’ve been doing a lot of work myself inside, I’ve been missing out on the many nice things that come with living in this part of the world – things like eating out and socialising with friends. Now that the build is winding down and the demands being made on me are reducing I’m looking forward very much to rectifying those things in the coming weeks \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A clothes line, of course. Unlike when I left the UK to come to France, I brought my rotary clothes line with me from my old house at Plazac. I had to leave the plastic tube that it was inserted into in the ground but I found a replacement on Amazon a few weeks ago, … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21743"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21759,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21743\/revisions\/21759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n