Tag Archives: Renovation

What a Difference a Week Makes

Posted on July 10, 2015 by Paul

I had spent the last six months diligently working on the bread oven house. Occasionally with the much welcomed help of Amanda, but more often on my own with just my iPhone playing music in my back pocket, or perhaps … Continue reading →

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Out With The Old, and In With The New (Old)

Posted on July 5, 2015 by Paul

We must be paying our builder Facundo too much, either that or he’s won the lottery without telling us, or perhaps someone else is paying him too much (but I doubt it). I know this because after four years of … Continue reading →

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What goes bang in the Galician night?

Posted on January 27, 2015 by Paul

It was just after midnight last Friday as the three of us settled into bed, Bonita assuming her ever-present role as a highly effective feline contraceptive, stretched between us and condemning Amanda and I each to our own peripheral eight … Continue reading →

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The little house that Amanda and Paul built

Posted on November 19, 2014 by Paul

As we unloaded box after box from Hercules it became ever more apparent that in moving from an English three-bedroomed semi-detached, to a one-bedroomed, mostly open-plan, barn conversion, we’d simply got far too much stuff. We no longer had a … Continue reading →

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Equine Assistance

Posted on June 26, 2014 by Paul

After being away from the property for a few months, there is a well practiced order in which I look at the house and land when arriving along the road from Pontenova. First priority; has the roof collapsed on the big … Continue reading →

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