donderdag 11 maart 2010

His favourite way...







Hahaha, dear family and friends,
this is the day "Eddy in full action"....
on Wednesday 10th of March, normally our day-off.
This is really his favourite way of painting ! (He doesn't like painting at all)
But I have to confirm it is going very fast like this. I even tried to film it,



so take a look at our hard-working sheik....


zaterdag 6 maart 2010

Painting the elevator shaft.





























I think from now on, we have to work in the new house each free half hour, ...exciting !





Today I worked alone in the antique shop, Eddy painted the elevator shaft. Monday the workmen from Ora (the firm of the elevator) come to finish the elevator. So this is the last week-end we can paint the shaft. That will be neat. Weather is cold but sun is shining, all the windows are open to let the building dry.

Tabitha give us a call from Oxford England that her first Cambridge exams are finished. Six weeks to wait for the results ! She is coming home next week for seven days. Hurrah !!!

She can pack her things herself. That will be easyer for her after the removal.

I 'll take the p.'s from the windows, maybe to-morrow I can buy the curtains. I have seen beautiful curtains in a Moroccan store. I don't know how they do it, but in those stores, you can find the most beautiful materials at amazing low prices. And it is not the first time I sew curtains and drapery's myself, I have a very good sewing machine, and I love to work with needle and thread.

Everything is coming fine !

P.S. And this afternoon, I hired the "suite" in the Bosdam castle for two weeks ! (see yesterday)

vrijdag 5 maart 2010

Paperwork

Today I have done a lot of paperwork to move : terminate the contracts with the electricity company, and Telenet (the provider of cable television, telephone and internet).

Asked a new contract with Telenet on the new adress, searched a new provider for the electricity and the earth-gas (for the heating), took contact with Intergem (agent for electricity) to ask the numbers, necessary for the new provider, and so on...

We have choosen for "Lampiris" as provider for the gas and electricity. They have good prices and deliver 100% green electricity stream. Let's hope they have a good service to their clients...

The workman began to installate the elevator, hoping next week everything is finished. Eddy placed a temporary mailbox.

I have moved already a lot of stuff to Melsele the last weeks. Everything that cannot be damaged is packed into boxes and ready to move.



I have searched for an hotel or a bread and breakfast in this region, for the first two weeks of April. Because they have told us the concretefloor is finished the 26th of March, but than it has to dry a few weeks too. After that we can start laying the floor (we do it ourselves). So we cannot live in the house the first weeks, there will no rooms be finished. And there will be no kitchen or bath room that's ready. But I am not nervous at all, we will see...










I found an amazing bed and breakfast in Beveren, only 5 minutes by feeth from our new house. It is an old castle (1568) and the landlord has made us a very special price. For him, it is not the b&b season and for us it is a solution. If you wanted to take a look : http://www.kasteelbosdam.be/ you can see pictures by pressing the button "sfeer foto's".


This evening we will decide if we are going to stay there, because we have to search also a solution for our cat. She cannot come with us in the castle. Or in any hotel here in the environement. We will talk and see.

More news later !

dinsdag 2 maart 2010

After a hard winter...


































































Due the heavy winter we have had (november lots of rain, and december/january a lot of cold and snow), we have a delay with the house. Autch.... normally we had to move in end of february, but the new owners of our old house in Zwijndrecht, proposed to stay untill end of March !!! Good for us, because our new house isn't finished at all.
In the meantime there is done a lot : when the first really, really cold days were finished, the contractor has placed the windows and the outside doors. That was the 19th of January. Than they came to prepare everything for the electricity supply in the building. After that the plumbers came to prepare their things.
And now we are the 2nd of March and the plastering is finished. The stairhouse is fantastic, you can see already what the result is going to be, when the bleustone and the wrought iron will be placed.
So the plumbers and the man who work for the electricity departement came yesterday and today to finish the last things. The radiators for the heating are placed.
In the meantime there was a team who came to finish the back side of the house by filling in the façade.
Eddy worked every free half-hour, timbering the attick with wood. The result is beautiful, finnaly something that is almost finished !
So dear family and friends : please cross your fingers that everything is going as planned now !
Further news soon....