{"id":1250,"date":"2007-05-24T18:13:29","date_gmt":"2007-05-24T17:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splunge.co.uk\/richnilk\/?p=1250"},"modified":"2011-09-06T11:26:57","modified_gmt":"2011-09-06T10:26:57","slug":"2452007-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splunge.co.uk\/richnilk\/2452007-thursday\/","title":{"rendered":"24\/5\/2007 – Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another hot sunny day<\/p>\n

I\u2019m going to have to keep it brief \u2018cos it\u2019s late and I\u2019m tired.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been at it all day putting together worktop number 2 in the kitchen area, and it\u2019s surprising how much effort it needs.\u00a0 But I\u2019m so motivated at the moment and that pushes me to get all the work done whereas in another world I might leave it for weeks or months or beyond.<\/p>\n

Got started by about 10.30 after having popped next door with the photo I printed out for Mr. T with the snakes.\u00a0 Didn\u2019t realise he wasn\u2019t there, but Mrs. T was well impressed and gave me a huge punnet of\u00a0 strawberries for my trouble.\u00a0\u00a0 Not a bad deal eh?\u00a0 A quick 10 minutes with a printer for a punnet of strawberries \u2013 this is the kind of casual bartering system that I could quite get into should I ever come across other serpent-killers who happen to run strawberry smallholdings.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know what I\u2019m going to do with all the strawberries, and the 2 bags of walnuts I\u2019ve now collected \u2013 answers on a carte-postale please.\u00a0 I\u2019m off to Paris in 2 days and I need to empty the fridge and larder of perishables before I go, so I\u2019m going to have to be inventive.\u00a0\u00a0 I hate to see any kind of food waste so I need to find a recipe that includes broccoli and leeks and cheeses and tomatoes and mushrooms and eggs and strawberries before the week is out.<\/p>\n

Worktop number 2 was harder than the first.\u00a0 I started by trying to pull-up some old floorboards underneath where it will sit in the hope that I could reclaim them for use elsewhere \u2013 but no, they have been nailed down with 2-inch (sorry 5cm) nails and any attempt at levering them up resulted in them splitting and being useless.\u00a0\u00a0 So I just made the skeleton of a worktop over the mess that I\u2019d made and that had to do.<\/p>\n

I worked for 8 hours, by which time the basic shell was established and immovable (I like to make \u2018em strong!).\u00a0 The hard bit is trying to plan everything with the available wood (and scrap wood) and trying to make everything as level as can be expected in this crooked house.<\/p>\n

Anyway, all was done by 7.30 and I must say WHAT A RELIEF to have a worktop by the sink and cooker that doesn\u2019t wobble or slope or is too small etc etc.\u00a0 It was a joy to cut my vegetables on it and prepare dinner this evening.<\/p>\n

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So I celebrated with a glass or two of wine, and then a fabulous thunderstorm broke in the evening sky which just set the evening off perfectly.\u00a0 There was a deliciously fresh wind blowing through the house and the sky was full of weird and wonderful shades of pink and blue and grey and purple and dark green an white and \u2026. Or was that just the wine working.\u00a0 Whatever, it was so refreshing to have a thunderstorm thundering around the valley as I ate my Gordon Blue meal, and watching the sky light-up with sheet lightning everywhere.\u00a0 I felt ALIVE.\u00a0 (probably all the positively charges ions).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another hot sunny day I\u2019m going to have to keep it brief \u2018cos it\u2019s late and I\u2019m tired.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been at it all day putting together worktop number 2 in the kitchen area, and it\u2019s surprising how much effort it needs.\u00a0 But I\u2019m so motivated at the moment and that pushes me to get all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-living-in-france-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splunge.co.uk\/richnilk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splunge.co.uk\/richnilk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splunge.co.uk\/richnilk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splunge.co.uk\/richnilk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splunge.co.uk\/richnilk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1250"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.splunge.co.uk\/richnilk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1254,"href":"https:\/\/www.splunge.co.uk\/richnilk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250\/revisions\/1254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splunge.co.uk\/richnilk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splunge.co.uk\/richnilk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splunge.co.uk\/richnilk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}