24° in Nadadouro 16° in Portreath
I just want to wish Ana and Phil a big good luck with their house search on the Silver Coast.
Your dream home is out there somewhere. x
26° in Nadadouro 15° in Portreath
Sorry for the delay on the updates, at last we have moved in and have our home! Boxes are unpacked, paintings are hung and a semblance of a real life is happening for us. Jacob came back from the UK very excited to see his new room and sunshine! It was great to pick him up from the airport and to show him our new place after 7 weeks away. I miss him so when he's away from us.
So the kitchen is fully fitted and is such a dream to use. But even better is having drains! The council finally decided to connect us to the main sewer!!!!! Please don't ask about our habits for the last couple of weeks, but needless to say, having a shower under a watering can has just about lost its appeal, even though bathing outside is quite a joy at this time of year. The next time i shower outside i swear will because i've just had a swim in my garden [still to be realised], or at the beach, rather than for necessity.
Now my lovely Dave has tiled and fitted our first bathroom. The beautiful tiles came from Spain only to find i didn't order enough, I need 12 more! Doh! We just have to add a glass shower screen, a few accessories and a bathroom door [!!!] and it's done.
We have also played host to our lovely sister Dianne. She's been jet setting all over Europe this summer. It was a great week of fizz, pimientos and laughter. Come back soon Dodo x
Love x
Sorry for the delay on the updates, at last we have moved in and have our home! Boxes are unpacked, paintings are hung and a semblance of a real life is happening for us. Jacob came back from the UK very excited to see his new room and sunshine! It was great to pick him up from the airport and to show him our new place after 7 weeks away. I miss him so when he's away from us.
So the kitchen is fully fitted and is such a dream to use. But even better is having drains! The council finally decided to connect us to the main sewer!!!!! Please don't ask about our habits for the last couple of weeks, but needless to say, having a shower under a watering can has just about lost its appeal, even though bathing outside is quite a joy at this time of year. The next time i shower outside i swear will because i've just had a swim in my garden [still to be realised], or at the beach, rather than for necessity.
Now my lovely Dave has tiled and fitted our first bathroom. The beautiful tiles came from Spain only to find i didn't order enough, I need 12 more! Doh! We just have to add a glass shower screen, a few accessories and a bathroom door [!!!] and it's done.
We have also played host to our lovely sister Dianne. She's been jet setting all over Europe this summer. It was a great week of fizz, pimientos and laughter. Come back soon Dodo x
Love x
21° in Nadadouro 16° in Portreath
Yesterday afternoon, after waiting all week the marble worktop came. It was just in the back of the fitters' truck - six pieces of cream marble with the most amazing disco, glittery, white stripe! A couple more blokes appeared and they all huffed, puffed, sawed, adjusted and finally successfully fitted our new top.
We are just speechless - really, really love x
Yesterday afternoon, after waiting all week the marble worktop came. It was just in the back of the fitters' truck - six pieces of cream marble with the most amazing disco, glittery, white stripe! A couple more blokes appeared and they all huffed, puffed, sawed, adjusted and finally successfully fitted our new top.
We are just speechless - really, really love x
25° in Nadadouro 16° in Portreath
Another tiring week in Nads! So much seems to be happening so quickly, when all i really want to do now is retreat to the beach with a cocktail and a good book. Ho hum - maybe next summer.
As i type my Dave is painting our other lounge/snug. This is where we'll put the TV and my office for now. This week he painted the old wooden floor upstairs. We had some great guys come and sand it to death so now it's lovely and smooth, but still very very old, so a lick of white eggshell has done it proud.
Another tiring week in Nads! So much seems to be happening so quickly, when all i really want to do now is retreat to the beach with a cocktail and a good book. Ho hum - maybe next summer.
As i type my Dave is painting our other lounge/snug. This is where we'll put the TV and my office for now. This week he painted the old wooden floor upstairs. We had some great guys come and sand it to death so now it's lovely and smooth, but still very very old, so a lick of white eggshell has done it proud.
Also Victor has made us an amazing Kambala [iroko] staircase to match our front door. The handrails are up and i think this area will be our new bedroom for the foreseeable future as our bathroom is sort of full up of STUFF.
We also have our terrace cordoned off with new handrails, made by Mario and his crew from Foz do Arelho. They are the same colour as the window frames and will keep us from any Kamikaze actions we might feel on a late saturday night - just for laughs of course!
To top the week off, we've had a festa in honour of Our Lady. The pic below shows our local bishop trotting around the village under his sun canopy, followed by the majority of the village, well at least the God fearing ones.
Once again the music was booming and there's no sleep till well passed 3am! Now this goes on for 6 days people. However I did have a little outing at the weekend, which was a bit of a mistake. We had already started moving house and had one more night in our rental, i needed my asthma pump and realised it was moved. So i shuffled off around to get it and thought i'd make a detour via festa to see what was on. Well 4 hours later, i was danced out and stumbled home, full of wine and smiles. Until a few hours later of course when it was time to finish moving! x
22° in Nadadouro 18° in Portreath
I've just ordered these beautiful tiles from Mosaic del Sur in Spain. They do some variable patchwork assortments, i suppose from leftovers from orders. Very very yummy i think you'll agree. This is the first time i have really really wanted to buy something for the house which is well over budget! Having a shower will never feel so good x
I've just ordered these beautiful tiles from Mosaic del Sur in Spain. They do some variable patchwork assortments, i suppose from leftovers from orders. Very very yummy i think you'll agree. This is the first time i have really really wanted to buy something for the house which is well over budget! Having a shower will never feel so good x
16° in Nadadouro 17° in Portreath
It's all go go go! Today we are moving most of our stuff into our new house - hooray. Unfortunately we can't stay in it as the council haven't connected our drains yet! Slightly disappointing, but we still have a lot to do in the house, so we can crash around the corner at our mate's house.
Many more pics to come but here's some of my Dave doing his thing - love x
It's all go go go! Today we are moving most of our stuff into our new house - hooray. Unfortunately we can't stay in it as the council haven't connected our drains yet! Slightly disappointing, but we still have a lot to do in the house, so we can crash around the corner at our mate's house.
Many more pics to come but here's some of my Dave doing his thing - love x
14° in Nadadouro 3° in Portreath [yes my widget seriously said 3°]
It has been another busy week at Casa Lemm.
No dramas thank goodness, just a lot of hard work. The plaster masters Antonio and Pedro [i've nicknamed them Ant and Dec, and no, they don't know that!] have plastered the ceilings throughout downstairs and added the kitchen cupboard wall too. A very crisp and precise job.
The sparky crew have wired up the place and very soon we will have light and power throughout.
Victor carpinteira [see how good my Portuguese is getting now!] came and measured up for the stairs and said they will be delivered on Monday! Today is Friday and we need to tile the floor! So this weekend will be taken up on our hands and knees. He has cut out a tester hole and the light is flooding into the basement. Although we have planned this for so long, it was a monumental moment.
Antonio [another one!] is cladding our feature wall outside with fantastic rusty coloured bits of slate. And the rest of the boys have been sorting the outside stairs, drainage and patio area out ready for the Brazilians who will be laying the calcadas [cobbles] any day now.
Upstairs each evening the house was full of building stuff, but yesterday we went in and it was cleared out! We seriously have so much more space. This is going to be great. x
It has been another busy week at Casa Lemm.
No dramas thank goodness, just a lot of hard work. The plaster masters Antonio and Pedro [i've nicknamed them Ant and Dec, and no, they don't know that!] have plastered the ceilings throughout downstairs and added the kitchen cupboard wall too. A very crisp and precise job.
The sparky crew have wired up the place and very soon we will have light and power throughout.
Victor carpinteira [see how good my Portuguese is getting now!] came and measured up for the stairs and said they will be delivered on Monday! Today is Friday and we need to tile the floor! So this weekend will be taken up on our hands and knees. He has cut out a tester hole and the light is flooding into the basement. Although we have planned this for so long, it was a monumental moment.
Antonio [another one!] is cladding our feature wall outside with fantastic rusty coloured bits of slate. And the rest of the boys have been sorting the outside stairs, drainage and patio area out ready for the Brazilians who will be laying the calcadas [cobbles] any day now.
Upstairs each evening the house was full of building stuff, but yesterday we went in and it was cleared out! We seriously have so much more space. This is going to be great. x
