Things were looking pretty grim at Quinta do Cabril for a while. Since the robberies last summer morale has been low and the work to sofa ratio quite high. Of course my ridiculously inconvenient sinus weevils have hampered things somewhat but things have changed – the sun is shining, the birds are tweeting and the international building team has reconvened for a mighty assault on the previously daunting task.
Several tons of grey stuff has been thrown at the walls and been lovingly smoothed into clean lines and dynamic shapes by my (somewhat OCD driven) Austrian/Portuguese renderer. The mixer has been turning endlessly, fed by Fernecas the swarthy Portuguese man-machine. Meanwhile I’ve been whittling balconies out of old pine trees and fashioning wiring circuits from coils of cable and small plastic boxes.
The result is a house shaped thing that looks like it needs a coat of paint rather than a pile of rocks that could do with a good bulldozing on the way to the pub…
I expect it’s nearly time to go surfing.
I didn’t surf today. Soon grasshopper, soon…
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One small step ……. actually it looks like several fairly meaty steps ……
Are you related to Basil Brush by any chance?
Ahhh, Spring! The sun is out here as well, and i’m re-energized and off to… oh, wait. clouds. back to the sofa…
Congrats on the progress! There’ll come a point where you’ll go 24/7 just to finish. Soon…
Bit snoozy myself. Budge over a bit – what’s on telly?
We’ve seen an awful lot of those steps – I suppose there IS more….
Are they the ones you throw your staff down?
I didn’t exactly throw him down. There was a struggle. He stumbled. There was nothing I could do…. honest.
um….didn’t read a bit of post
just wanted to say “hi”
well…except for the part about “not surfing today”
…I feel better. Me neither.
Hi
. I feel better that you feel better. Although it would be better to feel better because we’d both surfed rather than neither. x
That’s a fine flight of planks.
Nice of you to notice Somni old bean.
Is “the birds are tweeting” really code for “Papersurfer was tweeting”?
Nope. The bird really are tweeting. Although I was too but not at the moment but that doesn’t mean I won’t be later. Again. But I may not. I’ll get my coat…
those stairs look lethal…i mean someone could fall down them you know…especially if they were pushed…
they do look good tho
x
I’M INNOCENT! Am I protesting too much. Anyway it was AD. He’s not here so it must be his fault x
is being homeless also a motivating factor? maybe just for you – not the international crew who – i assume will not be homeless just because you are…
I didn’t want to mention that my own parents were selfishly throwing Me and Tango out on the streets. It’s just too upsetting to talk about.