http://www.skinidin.com Experiences of incomers to the Isle of Skye Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:18:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The work on the Glendale cottage has really started. All plasterboards are ripped out and tomorrow the partition studs will be removed. Upstairs and downstairs will be just one big space and we can start planning for a new layout.I made a start with chiseling off the mortar from the ... http://www.skinidin.com/junk-dust.htm Every now and then you stumble upon a really great site. I found delicious.com, a site where you can store, tag and share your internet bookmarks. Great stuff. Not only are your bookmarks safe from possible disk crashes, but you can organize them and you can download them in case ... http://www.skinidin.com/bookmarks.htm The roof of the shed is tiled. And just in time, I might say. Today the slaters defied some 60 mpu gales and finished almost all of the slating. The heavy winds were already trying to rip off the carefully fitted roof felt. Tomorrow the ridge tiles will go on ... http://www.skinidin.com/tiled.htm "Bos spreekt sussende woorden over crisis" aldus Trouw. Juist! Ben u gesust? Gerustgesteld? Meneer Bos, onze rots in de woelige financiele branding staat pal en geeft de ploeterende Nederlandse onderdanen weer een knus gevoel. Vertrouwen in de toekomst, dat is belangrijk! Oh, en er komt een plan! Hoe het plan ... http://www.skinidin.com/gesust.htm "Gordon Brown promised last night that the Government would 'roll up its sleeves' and sort out the banking system." "Gordon Brown was personally fighting to save the proposed £12 billion rescue of Britain’s biggest savings bank last night amid growing doubts over the deal." A fair collection of hollow cries. The scary ... http://www.skinidin.com/crunch-time.htm We've had the first colder days: northerly winds and a rapid drop of temperature. Over the past days we've been using our lounge stove as a primary heating source and it works pretty well. So well that we decided to buy a seconds stove for the kitchen which will be ... http://www.skinidin.com/new-stove.htm We definitely had some days of highs and lows. To start off with a high: An old schoolfriend - whom I had not seen for 28(!) years - and his wife visited us and stayed across the road in our cottage. We had a great time sharing memories of days ... http://www.skinidin.com/highs-and-lows.htm I removed the protective plastic yesterday and today I took down the scaffolding. Check out the photo with the front gable rough casted, ready for painting. The other walls only have their scratch coat, but already the whole thing had a complete transformation. I setup the scaffolding along the wall with ... http://www.skinidin.com/rough-casting-revisited.htm In the ongoing battle to keep the cost for heating down, we decided to fit the kitchen with a wood burning stove. The kitchen is quite big, with a vaulted ceiling and we spend quite some time in it as it also has a family/dining area. Anyway, next week a ... http://www.skinidin.com/rough-casting.htm Most unfortunate! I got stung by a wasp this week. In my middle finger of my right hand to be precise. It burned for a night and now it's itching. But it's a deep itch, if you know what I mean. An itch you can't really scratch. Very annoying... :-( http://www.skinidin.com/the-king-of-stings.htm