5th January 2024 – Finally the t&g is almost ready and now it are just a few bits and pieces that need doing. Quite exhausting, climbing up and down the ladder continuously…
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2nd January 2024 – I rarely buy new furniture, and even less in a shop like Ikea, but for the library there is no other cheap solution. For years I’ve been buying Kallax cabinets and they are easy to mount, always the same model and colour, so whenever I need to extend the storage I can add some more. I bought three of the biggest they have. I hope to be safe again for a year or two…
1st January 2024 – The conversion has taken to much time. I’m working on several projects and I notice the extension of the library, the reading room, is a bit left behind. I made a deadline: 1st February it should be ready. So I continued working today happy with the result!
29th December 2023 – While working the in the reading room an old friend and neighbour came to pay me a visit. We went to have a drink and I stopped working for they day…
27th December 2023 – I finished the ceiling of the reading room.
9th December 2023 – I found some time to work in the library. Half of the ceiling is now insulated and finished with t&g!
I don’t want to start thinking about painting this small room….
8th December 2023 – We were in the Netherlands today and got some nice additions for the museum!
4th December 2023 – I made some good progress on the BBS tool, mainly developing and adding old postcards to the database. It finally all comes together, the postcards, the ships, the skippers… Once the project has all the data being inputted it should become a nice work for the next generations!
I’m not updating every day I do something on BBS, since it would become a boring weblog. But keep in mind, I’m working nearly every evening on it!
2nd December 2023 – I continued working in the library, building the last frame, this time for the starboard side. Now it is only t&g…
2nd December 2023 – With temperatures below 0°C during the night and day we have to be careful. So I go checking the boats on a regular base (early morning, lunch and late evening). I need to refill the pellet heather three times a day.
29th November 2023 – Finaly fot some time to continue working on our database project!
28th November 2023 – The idea was to decorate Tordino again with Christmas decoration. I managed to mount a few pieces when I received a call of an oil spil in Bruges. No lunch break no decoration!
25th November 2023 – I got some time to work in the library, building the entrance and starting with the ceiling.
I also finished the front light. Somewhere in June I mounted an empty shell of a light. Now I put a LED bulb in the shell as anchor light.
24th November 2023 – There was a b**** Friday deal in the local DIY shop so I got some more wood. I hope to have some time in the weekend to work. As usual you spend a fortune but you can barely see what you bought.
9th November 2023 – There have been few updates lately. I’m mainly working on our project to make an inventory of the Belgian inland vessels. Nearly every evening I’m working between 2 and 4 hours on this project: developing the app and adding the data. Thankfully it is becoming winter, so I can’t do much on Tordino or the Stern.
