Life in France

A not every day story of normal people trying to live their dream in France starting at the beginning and ending?

Sunday, May 07, 2006

W.I.P. from this to....

Wall in progress! This is the start of a very small retaining wall at the edge of the terrace as we need to stop the rock from cracking with the frost and rain and sliding down onto the terrace.
As you can see the house is actually built straight onto the rock so it is a good reason to stop the rock from moving.
Rock moves, house moves ...ooops pile of rubble..start all over again! once the blocks are in place i will backfill with some soil and then plant some small rock type plants/alpines etc to give a bit of colour and then face the wall with natural stone so that it blends in a bit better.
Well, that is the plan but as with every thing here it is subject to last minute changes. No idea how it will go as never done this before.
Isn't on the job training/learning great?
Plasterman back so this last week have been back at some "real" work. I am now being a painter/decorator, stripping off wallpaper in a small apartment and cleaning ceilings ready to repaint and re-paper. They say variety is the spice of life..my life is very spicy at the moment sort of chili powder, black pepper and cinnamon... Posted by Picasa

4 Comments:

  • At 6:05 am, Blogger Ally said…

    I thought that it was the houses built on sand that collapsed ... :)

     
  • At 11:09 am, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Well you sure have a solid foundation that's for sure. I see you're keeping yourself busy busy too, with even more projects. No rest for the wicked eh!

    Mandy :)

     
  • At 3:23 am, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    It's just fun, fun, fun chez vous, n'est pas? :)

     
  • At 2:08 pm, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Peasant, I need your BE username please :)

     

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