Thursday, October 21, 2004
Winterisation
Our last gite guests of the year left this morning. Because of the building work we had decided to close-up from today and leave ourselves free to make as much building noise and mess as necessary. This afternoon we have tidied all the play equipment and toys away under cover, moved the trampoline into the dry and lifted all the coir matting on the barn floor. I think the matting would rot away if we left it all winter, hopefully this should prolong it's useful life. It cost a small fortune, so we need to look after it.
Over the next few weeks we will prepare the gites for the winter. E.g. put the heaters on low or frost guard, wash all the nets and curtains, patch up and little dings and scrapes, various minor odd jobs etc.. Just before the first lets next year each gite will need a top-to-toe spring clean.
In passing I stumbled across Google Desktop Search. It's fantastic, I don't know how I managed without it before. It searches the files on your PC, within Outlook and the web pages you have visited for matching search items. If you know you read about "scaffolding" somewhere but can't remember if it was an email, a document you filed or something you saw on the web a couple of weeks ago, just type in scaffolding and bingo. Far far better than the Microsoft search facility, which asks you where to look? If I knew I would be searching !
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Winterisation
