DIY in France can be bad for your health. Well maybe just mine. Yesterday I managed to hit my pinky so hard with the lump hammer it split open. Then banged my head on the steel girder in the cellar.Every time I started to sweat small insects descend from were ever they lurk to drink and perhaps snack on some of my fast flowing blood. Which serves me right as I will go round advertising the stuff.
The Gods of sanitation smiled upon my enterprise however and I now own sinks and a washing machine which empty into the fosse-septique without the intervention of bowls and buckets.
My boots fit me again,I stand astride my completed task ,hands on hips like a goliath of DIY and stride away for perhaps two paces before I see another DIY task,and my boots feel rather large again. A voice from the house fills the air. No not a deep one saying ‘Were’s me feckin boots’ but that other overseer enquiring politely of her first husband what his plans are for the rest of the day, and she will keep asking till I get it right.
Hi, I’ve just extended the meaning of the Nice Matters Blogger Award by passing it on to blogs that I find ‘nicely’ different. You’re one of them. Hope you appreciate it; feel free to pass it on to your best friends in the blog world (the original idea I believe) or just choose blogs that fit in your own category of ‘nice’. Read all on http://trashcollector.blogspot.com
PS: Sorry for the horrible award tag. It’s the way it is.
Astrid
Thanks for the Nice Matters Blog Award. I like to poke fun at the ‘Worthy green Types’ as I like to call them, you know the type that preach just cos’ they own a bicycle.In this instance however You have shown me on your blog a group of people displaying real clever ideas on how to recycle. I made my own kitchen
http://www.breezybreak.com/Kitchen_made_from_recycled_timber.htm
out of salvage timber and it is a very good feeling to lower your impact on the planet.
If I helped you discover a few new ideas on recycling, I’m happy just for that I nominated you
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Hope I got you some extra visitors too.
I’m pretty serious about recycling, but undermining the frenzy economy in the same time makes me enjoy it even better (hehe). I giggle when I think how being so good saves me tons of money, while owning higher quality stuff than I ever could afford before.
PS: if that kitty ever falls in oil, just wrap it in absorbing paper (for real, my late Tommy did it once)(poor thing felt ‘wet’ for days and kept shaking his behind legs).