Renovation and Mail

It's been rather quiet here the last few days, but today was a special day.

They finished the renovation of our house!!

Looks good on the outside. I wonder how the inside looks.

They put a new wall in our livingroom which makes it about 12 centimeters smaller. Not too happy with that, but they say it will be warmer and there will be less noise from the neighbours.

Random picture of the lovely sky outside.

Hey! What's this?
I know for sure that wasn't on the wall when we left!

Ehm... Eww!
I do not even want to know what that is.

And this doesn't look good either.

And I'm not entirely sure, but I do not think a window is supposed to look like this.

Ah, this is more like it.

All in all they did a nice job though, apart from the writing and weird spots and stuff. But we'll have a lot of work to do to get it all liveable again. Luckily we have a month to repaint and recarpet the house.

Just as we were about to leave to go back to our temporary house there was mail! The first mail after the renovation and it was for me!

So I took it with me and once we were at our temporary house I got out my letter opener.

It was a lovely Halloween card from Marlowe and his Mom!

Thanks Marlowe! It came at just the right moment!

We're slowly getting there.

A fun postcard I found when packing.

And the livingroom of our temporary house is slowly starting to look like a livingroom.

Temporary House and a Trip

We got the keys of the temporary house we have to move to, so we went over there today to take a look.

Empty houses have something weird I think.

The kitchen.

One of the bedrooms. They had left a moving box there, I think we can use it for our move.

The central heating had a weird display thingy called a 'ClimaRad' which had lots of extra functions. My owner tells me they will build a 'ClimaRad' in our house too.

Well, it may not be home, but it's good enough to live for a couple of months.

After looking at the temporary house my owner and me went to the mother of my owner to borrow her car so we can use it to move boxes. We took the train to get there.

The station where we got on the train is build over a road and there are windows in the station so you can look down on the road from the station: very strange!

We had a fun afternoon at the house of my owner's mother and I had a look outside at the dyke.

And I lounged among the flowers.

We went out for dinner in Kampen at a Chinese wok-restaurant and I had cassava crackers.

And ice cream with strawberries and mellon. Yum!

After dinner we took the car to Groningen, but not before I spotted this banner with this fish, who is very famous in Kampen.
You can read more about this famous fish in another post I made about Kampen last year here