Tuesday, May 11, 2004
Saint Estelle,
Spent most of the day rubbing down the external windows and doors for two of the gites with Caroline chasing behind with a paintbrush. After sanding 4 windows and a large door the skin on my fingers definitely feels thinner. Maybe I'm using the paper the wrong way round :-) Most of the windows and doors face south so they take a real pounding and I expect it's going to be one of those constant jobs, like painting the forth bridge. Only another 6 windows to go !
The last few days have been warm and sunny so the grass is growing real fast. More mowing. I think we are spending more on petrol for the mower than diesel in the car at the moment.
Put a different pump on the rain water butts. First time I used the old pump from the fish pond and submerged it into one of the butts, however it didn't have enough head to drive a decent flow once we had 50 meters of hose connected. The new pump has an 8m head and delivers plenty of water.
Caroline cleaned out the fish pond with a swimming pool hoover. In Carrefour they had a load of swimming pool accessories on special offer. We bought a mini suction cleaner for 6 euros. Connect it up to the pump and hey presto it sucks up all the sediment in the pond. Bargin. The pond water is still clear, even after all this sun, so the filters were a good investment.
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