Carpenters' work

Around the back of the house, things are looking better. The terrace is down and the shed is up.
The terrace steps will get sides to them and something will go aound the edges of the terrace to stop mice building a mice city underneath it.
The shed has got two doors - the locks are going to come this week - and a nice beaver-tail (Biberschwanz) roof. Sometime soon the wood's going to get treated and stained and what-not.The shed also has a light and a socket in it, and a path leading up to it so we don't have to get too muddy walking from the house to the shed. And it's already full of shed stuff.
Tomorrow we are going to buy some grass seed to repair the garden.

In the photo you can also see that the fence to next door has been removed. Our carpenters have been clearing out the yard for our neighbour and she has promised to put up a proper fence soon.

Carpenters at work

On Friday the Zimmermänner were still working hard. Here they are doing something or other with the beams at the front of the house. The balcony is lying in the garden once again...

Pink toliet

I had to fight for it but we now have a beautiful pink toilet.
"Pink!" all the men said. "It will look good", said I (stamping my feet like Rumplestiltskin). And it is. And they all agree too :-)

Place to eat

The new dining table has arrived. One day we'll buy some lovely new chairs too. In the meantime we'll have to make do with these not very strong but very useful 12 euro foldable things from Ikea. At least, until we bring the metal ones from the flat next week.

New home for the bookshelves

And here the bookshelves are in their new position.

Boxes

Back at the flat, we've started packing the books and bits.
Some see it as boxes of books; others see it as a cat adventure playground.
The book shelves have already gone (note the empty white wall behind the sofa where the wall to wall bookshelves once were). They had to go to the house with the carpenter who cut them to fit - taking a bit off the top as the ceiling is lower, and a bit off the bottom as the skirting board would have been in the way.

Fall (fell, fallen)

Autumn has struck and almost all of the remaining leaves have blown, fluttered, and fallen off the trees giving the garden a slightly bare appearance. We do have two lovely piles of leaves though for the hedgehogs to rustle about in.