Tiling

I have spent the last Aeon tiling. And I'm still not finished, even though the kitchen looks as if all necessary tiles were in place:

But I am painfully aware that there is a gaping hole under the window. I know that we work with lime to keep the house breathable, but I don't know why everything one does with it has to take extremely long.

Summer break perhaps over

I felt sufficiently bad tempered about almost everything in the last 5 weeks that I saw no reason to blog. We have, however, for quite some time now finished the dreaded lime screed. It took almost three weeks and was quite back-breaking. The result seems to be worth it though - the house is deliciously cosy and warm and quite unlike anything I have experienced in the UK in all the 15 years I have been here.

Floods

We didn't get flooded after the recent downpours, so, in a fit of flood-envy, the husband and a friend and builder ripped the mains water pipe in our house creating an artificial flood just for us. To save our floor, which in its current stage is nothing but a layer of clay, this got diverted onto the road from hence it flowed downhill through the village to join the big lake that is under normal circumstances the river at the valley bottom. This, I assume is the reverse of rainwater harvesting.