which I interpret as the Royal Mail saying, ‘We’ve managed to\u00a0get it as far as Spain, we’ve washed our hands of it, now it is\u00a0in the lap of the Gods’. I’d better e-mail the architect to see if it has arrived!<\/p>\n
As we’ve currently hit the development doldrums while waiting for the Spanish authorities to do their stuff, I thought I’d go through the many photos that we’ve taken on the eight trips we’ve so far made to Galicia. In doing so I spotted a worrying trend…we’re breeding washing machines!<\/p>\n
When we bought the house back in June 2010\u00a0there was a single old washing machine in a partitioned corner of the house.\u00a0We considered it ‘one of those things’ that came with the house and that we’d eventually have to pay for the disposal of.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Back in June - just the one<\/p><\/div>\n
Examining the photos from January this year, the solitary discarded washing machine had turned into two.<\/p>\n
Surely this can’t be normal?<\/p>\n
Can washing machines breed in dark wet rooms, or have we been the victims of a bizarre form of reverse Galician fly tipping?<\/p>\n
<\/a>And then there were two<\/p><\/div>\n
Despite numerous conversations with locals and other Brits, we’ve still not determined how you get rid of unwanted white goods in Spain. The norm seems to be to either leave them outside until they rust to dust, or dig a big hole and bury them, as there are no municipal dumps or recycling centres.<\/p>\n
I can see these, and any further mechanical children that they have before we clear the house,\u00a0making the long journey back to England and causing consternation and amusement at our local ‘tip’ in Huddersfield with their two pin plugs and Spanish decals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The architect who can’t be named\u00a0e-mailed through the ‘final’ (fingers crossed) papers for us to sign and send back via snail mail\u00a0to enable the\u00a0submission of the planning application for the small barn. These were; a three page document in\u00a0gallego (licenza … Continue reading