Week 51 A Welcome break
Week 51
We have a few weeks to gather our thoughts and get a few things sorted out...
...including the likely over-budget expenditure on the building works :-)
We had the same feeling 25 years ago but we couldn't stop half way then - or now.
Planet Chicken
This is a podcast about....chickens ...just a place I found myself at by listening to the BBC. It turned out to be far more interesting when we learnt that one of our own "chicken farmers" is shortly going to Uganda to give lessons to would-be chicken farmers there.
Our nephew Henk has been raising table chickens and, for a few years, producing more than 30000 eggs per day in a village that I drive through every day on my way to pick up Lucas - that is to say, "just around the corner" from us.
I didn't quite pick up on just how he was invited - it could be via his church - he says that it will be really basic as they will be starting from scratch :-)
I gave him the link to the podcast - he says he can follow the English OK. I imagine that it will be a nice background to his own work - the history of chicken production up to the present day with the the world eating 74 Billion chickens a year.
Wettest year on record (nu.nl)
Most rain fell in North Holland. And Purmerend is on course to become the wettest place in the Netherlands ever. South Holland, the Wadden area, the Veluwe and the Limburg hills also received more rain on average than in other years. The least precipitation fell in Central Limburg.
The record wetness is due to a series of outliers, such as the fifth wettest January ever recorded, the wettest April in a quarter of a century, twice as much rain in October as normal and the wettest November ever. It ensured that the spring of 2023 was the third wettest in measurement history, while the autumn was recorded as the second wettest on record.
House Progress
Breaking off the sunroom
This wall is going to be totally removed...
Preparing the foundations for the new bit - not a sunroom, but an extension of the "living kitchen" - kitchen/living room.
The concrete was going to be poured on Thursday, but Storm Pia put an end to that - too wet and windy - little joy to be had working outside.
...and today
So, we now have 2 weeks holiday - to clean up a bit and relax a lot!
The Apartments
Suddenly, the other 2 apartments are occupied again. The Local Government people rang Janny to confirm that we now have 12 people registered at our address... we couldn't figure it out at first but we have one extra boatie person registered due to the Brexit complications.
Tjeerd and Rudi figured out the central heating in apartment 3, while I finished off the wall and sliding door.
When all the current work is done, we're going to investigate the installation of heat pumps for the apartments - the insulation has to be greatly improved first.
We finished off the year with lunch for the Day Activity clients - including cards and gifts and a quiet afternoon watching telly in front of the fire...
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