{"id":22417,"date":"2024-01-01T16:57:30","date_gmt":"2024-01-01T15:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=22417"},"modified":"2024-01-01T17:15:08","modified_gmt":"2024-01-01T16:15:08","slug":"running-jump-into-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/running-jump-into-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Running jump into 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

No time to waste as after a two-year break due to Covid I’ve now booked another short stay in Hurghada on the Red Sea in Egypt at the end of the Winter and I want to get as much done as I can before I leave. I would like to have everything inside the house finished so I can get straight on to interior furnishings and the garden when I return.<\/p>\n

But that might be too much to ask as not only have I got to wait until the second week of this month for the wall and floor units for the utility room to be delivered, but I also found out on Christmas Eve that the folding doors that I’d chosen for my cloaks cupboard cannot be delivered before 29th February at the very earliest.<\/p>\n

So I’m pretty much stymied at the moment except for one thing. My lovely neighbour had to install a new ‘syst\u00e8me d’assainissement’ (septic tank system) for her gite complex and as I think it will also have to serve a house that she and her partner propose building in the future, its tanks are pretty big. So some very large holes had to be dug to take them and as most of the volume created would be taken up by the tanks, I reasoned when work started that there would be quite a bit of earth left over.<\/p>\n

And there is, and to cut a long story short, she let me know over Christmas that I could have as much of it as I want, all of it even, so long as a small amount of topsoil is left for her own use. Here are some pics that show what I’m talking about.<\/p>\n

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I always said that when the work on my house was completed, there wouldn’t be enough earth available to back-fill to create a platform around it with a gentle enough slope and I was right. There are several areas around it which could take quite a bit more earth to reduce the slope of the ground as it falls away fom the house, especially at the northern end and the back, and there’s also an area at the front of the plot, more or less where I originally placed my caravan, which could do with being built up and levelled. The areas I’m talking about are shown in the next image.<\/p>\n

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The workmen have offered to run the earth over from my neighbour’s property during this week and although I’ll ask them if they want to lay and level it for me, I doubt they will as they’ll probably have another job to go onto. But hopefully they’ll be able to drop it in the areas marked with X’s. It’s an opportunity that will be a win-win for everyone and although I’ll have to keep a watchful eye that I’m not having loads of old sub-soil and rocks being dumped on me, so long as I get enough topsoil to cover the areas I’ve marked after they’re filled, it’ll be a good result for me.<\/p>\n

In other news, I think I’ve found a way to get around the delay on the doors I need for my cloaks cupboard. It appears that I might be able to source suitable doors from a couple of sources as well as a choice of folding door kits. So I might be able to make the doors up myself, in which case I could get cracking on them within about ten days. That’ll be more like it \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Oh, and by the way, a Happy New Year to all my family and friends wherever they are who are following my adventures here in France.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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