29th January 2024 – I’m working in my workshop, but several boxes with books still need sorting out. I’ve started the job scanning them and adding them to the inventory of the Library.
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28th January 2024 – A day of working in the Library, sorting out books in the morning and scanning covers in the evening.
24th January 2024 – You don’t see that many updates anymore. I’m spending most of my time working on an app we have developed with the Museum. It is taking a lot of time to enter data and new modules. This evening or should I rather say night, we launched a new version.
It is all in Dutch, but it could be useful if you own a Belgian barge…
Belgische Binnenvaart Schepen – Nieuws (binnenvaarterfgoed.be)
14th January 2024 – I started by mounting the pieces of wood I cut last night at my workshop. Once that was finished I mounted two cabinets for the library. It was to cold to work so I gave up in the afternoon.
13rd January 2024 – I mounted the floor and the two cabinets on the wall. Then I helped my new neighbour.
12th January 2024 – The library reading room got its final coat of paint. I also found two old cupboards from a barge to be used as decoration.
7th January 2024 – The whole room got a first coat of paint. Two more to go. I started early in the morning by cleaning the room, removing tools and remaining pieces of wood. In the afternoon, my parents came to help me.
6th January 2024 – I was still surprised to see how much little details needed finishing. I also added insulation to the metal hatch. I hope it will help for the coming week. It will no longer be rain, but now it will be freezing.
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…
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.
26th December 2023 – We went to Douai to take some pictures of the spits barges moored in the area. I took over 400 pictures of at least 300 barges!
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….