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As I wrote before, I might not be the best of all DIY people. You know I bought the Collins DIY book and drilled through a power cable. Yesterday, putting up the pictures, I used the Black and Decker Sensors which worked fabulous, giving me the confidence to drill, nail
Continue readingWe made some progress in the house, finally. Here are the pictures. Cheers, Volker
Continue readingI had a lot of Buddhist and spiritual thoughts this weekend. As you know I write another blog which is like an email exchange with a good friend: Balamadana. Today I wrote in response to Marcelo about Karma. There is not much happening today on a very slow, rainy Sunday.
Continue readingI just need to let you know: the bible of DIY arrived today. Finally! No more drilling into electric cables, no more messing about when doing anything in the house. Watch me being “Volk the builder” and turning a “house into a home” 😉 This book comes highly recommended!
Continue readingMy wife and I got the Alan Titchmarsh Book about Gardening. It is very good. So when we woke up this morning after a lovely BBQ with friends, I said “why don’t we go to the gym”. But, she preferred to go into the garden. And, as I am, I
Continue readingWhat would a German garden be without a garden gnome. Even neighbour’s cat Wilson likes his company.
Continue readingHello All, What a successful Sunday. We went off to the Surrey country side to visit the Denbies vineyard. I wrote about the visit to a Kentish vineyard earlier this year. I find it amazing to find good white and rose wines in England and also nice sparkling wines. Denbies
Continue readingFinally, we managed to put some pictures of our house online. Pictures of our house My most favourite one is this:
Continue readingI tried uploading this last night from my blackberry. But unfortunately “the machine” has some problems. Need to look into that. Here is our garden, freshly cut grass with stripes. And some “road kill”, neighbour’s cat’s toy 🙂
Continue readingTonight, after a very successful day at work, we did some DIY – then again we did not. My wife got curtains and our living room really looks stunning now. However, we wanted to get some pictures on the wall but after my experience of drilling through a cable, I
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