LIAM COMES TO VISIT OUMA AND OUPA

WELL, THE VIDEO SAYS IT ALL

AND THEN OF COURSE - THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE

Billy in the garden after a long hard week-end

Now that was, as they say A Task & A Half, lifting all the 450 x 450 concrete slabs, lifting the base concrete, and wheel-barrowing it away. Then I cut the shape of the front path with an angle grinder with dust everywhere. Levelled off the ground and put in 30 x 25l bags of topsoil, planted the lawn seed and gave it water & fertilizer.

Tania arrived for a vist, she light the barbecue fire and cooked the meat. All washed up, we sat down to a good glass of wine, cracker of a braai with salads and finished of with home made waffles-syrup and cream. All in between watching the Monza F1 GP. Ria is glad the week-end has come and gone, as I was just full of mud and dust and kept on calling for coffee and coke to drink, she had no peace all day long.

It was an amazing week-end of fantastic weather-lots of sun shine and even caught a bit of a tan.

Just happened this way while I was in the garden, two planes flew bye in the sky ( now here else would they fly bye??). Here in the UK with the cold air at high altitude, all the planes leave a white tail trail and these two made a cross in the heavens and sentimental me had to take a photo and say

Now that cross is a symbol of the 8cowles family love for one another.

Ria takes a shower

England has a strange water supply system, but Leon spent some time with me to explain it. The street water mains do not have a lot of pressure in them, due to the fact that the infrastructure was installed hundreds of years ago, so each house has a water tank in the ceiling, and this fills up just like a cistern of your toilet, when you use water the ball valve opens and fills the tank again. So you have no real pressure only a gravity feed from your tank in the ceiling. There are modern ways of improving this system at a great cost, so we will leave this one to another date. But what I did was install an approved dual hot/cold water pressure pump after the tank. not allowed on the mains supply before the tank. The result is Fantastic pressure in the shower and water flows much better and faster at the taps aswell installation complete and the pump is in.
so now the pressure is 2 Bar throughout the house , up from a 1/2 bar.

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Pity Ria had the curtains closed when she was showering or you could have seen the water flow pressure.

Ria goes to a French Market in Woking

Last Saturday and Sunday we had a continental market in our Village Mall, during the year there are different themes and cultures, this week-end was FRENCH, we ate a Crepe with sugar on while we browsed through the picturesque stalls, very colourful and Oh so appetising.

WOW, so many varieties of Olives to choose from
Not to mention the SWEETIES, Ria said she has never seen so many sweets in one place and al so tempting, she had to buy some



Armed with her bag of nummies of we go home - broke

Liam kom kuir by OUMA

I am just checking if Mom and dad are not to far away

Ria with her pride and joy in her arms

Pictures of Liam August 2008 summary

Well here are some outstanding pictures of Liam, not to duplicate I have put a link to Leon & Elizma's blog so just click here and let Google do the rest of the magic.