Roof plating finally there!

Today we saw the long awaited roof isolation plates arriving on the webcam. These should have been here some time ago but now they finally arrived and just in time... The council has started to renew our street and ... yes, ofcourse, the starting point is in front of our house... We are to expect 3 weeks of "inconvenience". Tomorrow dad is staying at home to do some more work on the electrics.. Nils likes his new room very much now the angled ceiling is straight. Dad even took him up to the attick to show him the new space and he liked the idea that this could be his room in the future.

Davina's birthday

today we went to Vlaardingen to visit Lisette's brother Martin, Judith, Davina, Thijmen and Mathijs. It was Davina's birthday. Well actually not exactly, because she was born on the 29th of Februari so she was born on what we call a "schrikkeljaar". All of the grandparents were there and Nils and Thijmen almost immendiately went upstairs to play with the wooden traintracks. Mathijs changed laps every 10 minutes and had great fun fun with a big balloon.

The roof tiles arrived!

I (dad) didn't notice them at first but then Lisette saw loads of them in our front garden. The rash container is now gone and the bricks are almost all used. Today we also saw that they made lots of progress with the roof beams. Who knows, maybe next week we'll have a complete roof again. Let's hope so, we're getting enough of the mess and dust everywhere.

A hole in the roof, or a roof in the hole..

A picture of the carnaval parade in De Lier

The builders are putting up more and more wooden beams and at the same time more roofing is disapearing..

Rude seal

I found a funny movie of a rude seal in the zoo. They should teach them some manners, I thought they could teach them seals tricks well, this is a trick alright.

Fiddler on the roof

Yeh, fiddling on the roof, to put the wifi antenna on a different spot. Tomorrow (monday) the builders will start to open up the roof to connect the new building with the old and therefor I had to remove the antenna on which our neighbour Monique receives her internet connection. I had to replace it and drilled it onto the chimney. Precariously balancing on an ladder... luckily the builders had made a platform around the house up to the roof so I could only fall 1,5 meters or so. Yesterday we went to see granddad in De Lier for the kitchen and now we finally ordered the kitchen! Another milestone reached. What is left now are tiles for the bathroom and kitchen. We already saw a couple of examples and we have a pretty good idea what we should choose. White (no glos) tiles rectangular shaped for the wall covering and dark grey square tiles on the floor. The shower will have a mixture of white tiles and dark grey rectangular tiles. It will be grand!!

This morning (sunday) dad went with Nils and Wende to the swimming pool, Mom is still having this cold so she stayed at home. Nils and Wende were almost undressed until dad found out he forgot his swimming trousers... Back home again to pick them up and then we finally could go swimming. We had a lot fun and they kept dad busy looking after them because one went this way and the other went... the other way ofcourse.

On top of the world...Second floor that is..

Today the electricity company came to renew a piece of the electric cabel because we wanted 3 phases instead of 1 to power all the new appliances in out new to be kitchen. The old cable did not want to give up so easily, the cable was stuck and they had to pul it out with a rope and a small excavator. Even after the cable was gone, problems still surprised us as the new cable did not fit the hole... Dad went to get a huge drill (rented for 5 euro) of a meter long and drilled out the hole in the basement. After that it was a piece of cake, connect the wires, put back all the clay in the pit and connect a 380 3 phase female socket for the builders. So now they won't have to start up the huge generator anymore to operate the crain. The floor beams of the attick are now in place and it will be soon that they will start to open the roof... Let's hope the weather cooprates..