Week 50 The Christmas Edition

 Week 50


Best Wishes for Christmas and the New Year!

(my my, that went quickly)

:-)


Late this week because Sunday was dedicated to preparing for Janny's Mum's 91st Birthday!

Held at one of her grandsons' venue. Everyone had to bring some food, so I did my standard fare of egg and bacon pie and sausage rolls - they are totally devoured every time!









During the week we did some "helping" work in the house and some preparation work in Apartment 3 for the new residents - coming next weekend.

The House

This beam had to come out...





The grey one took it's place...because the opening has been made bigger




The old one looks very small now, by comparison


We had kids again this weekend, so we put them to work doing a bit of cleaning up...

before...


We needed another skip - the large one is only for rubble - all the rest can go in the smaller one.








after...


We're done with the boot-sucking mud, but it is still fairly cold and wet - we need to keep a portable heater running 24/7 in the house so that it doesn't get too damp.


Apartment 3

We decided to put in an extra wall - all to do with saving energy costs (as is our house). So, we salvaged our old sliding door to the sunroom and placed it here - to make a small entrance hall - and a smaller living area to be heated.


with insulation, of course! We had the framing timber left over from other jobs...







We have to finish off the plastering this week. The woman says that her brother in law will finish off anything we haven't finished - we have to put in a central heating radiator in the new hallway - we have plenty of radiators to spare, since they are being totally removed from our house.

The kids were given their Christmas presents - and we now have a few weeks off so that they have the Christmas/New Year with their parents.



We're still doing the rounds of kitchen/bathroom shops and we had to go and decide on a new sunroom door/windows. This showroom model is exactly the right size...





A few things caught my attention this week...


I have referred to this before https://www.klimaateffectatlas.nl/nl/ , but it seems pretty amazing that they can narrow it down so much (including with other studies). The study looked at post-war housing and different decades since then


How can the neighbourhood typologies be used in the purview of climate adaptation?

If you know the neighbourhood typology class of a particular neighbourhood or street, you can gain a general picture of the vulnerability of that neighbourhood or street to heat or waterlogging. It can also help you to draw up a shortlist of appropriate measures. For example, meandering “cauliflower” neighbourhoods make excellent locations for bioswales*, whereas technological underground measures would be more appropriate among dense urban building blocks. A sound picture of suitable measures will increase your opportunities for factoring in climate adaptation in spatial taskings. 

(I learnt a new word)

*Bioswales are landscape features that collect polluted stormwater runoff, soak it into the ground, and filter out pollution. Bioswales are similar to rain gardens but are designed to capture much more runoff coming from larger areas of impervious surfaces like streets and parking lots.

Population

(I thought this might be interesting to find something similar for Australia - but I haven't got that far yet).

By the end of this year, the Netherlands will have 2.9 million residents who were born abroad and 2.1 million of the rest have at least one parent born in another country. That means some 28% of the population have foreign roots of some sort. By 2035, that will have gone up to 33%, the CBS said.

A Podcast

Another English language podcast looking at the rise of the far right in Europe - a lot said about the Netherlands...

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