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ere was a time when it was the last property in the row further that now means that there is little more than a sheet of cardboard separating me from the one neighbour whose home whilst it might well be a castle in terms of common folklore is falling to pieces and in danger of dragging my property with it all that said jim the neighbour has a heart of gold and has done us a favour in scaring off any potential property developers who might have gazumped our meager offer gazumping is a real word and refers to making a higher offer on a property after someone else has already made an offer it is apparently quite common practice here w hilst waiting for lennie to join me i had the opportunity to start renovating at least part of the property to be honest i hadn t even unpacked before i started ripping down wall paper and plaster the first goal was to have at least one room comfortably habitable prior to lennie s arrival part of the renovation of the main bedroom eventually resulted in ripping down the ceiling i removed some of the lathe and plaster walls re plastered and boarded up the failing structures and added at least some additional insulation in the form of thick insulating wall paper foam slabs where the old windows where and adding new electrics the original idea was that this might become the office but currently at least it is the master bedroom it has become an oasis of peace in an ocean of building mayhem which was pretty much the point the renovated bedroom at least provides us both with an oasis of calm in a sea of uncertainty and building mess o nly part way through the project did i realise that the ceiling had to come down or it might well do the same of it s own accord the old hand cut joists were sagging dramatically and i made the decision to rip it all out and start again r ipping out a lathe and plaster ceiling produces a similar effect to having a nuclear missile land directly on one s home and there has been much cleaning and struggle to sort things out i am still in something of a quandary as to what to do with the piles of waste generated h owever i did at least manage to put in new joists plasterboard and finally plaster the ceiling as well as one of the walls and just before the arrival of my spouse i had a serviceable bedroom nicely turned out and ready for occupation one notable and unexpected complication was that it is impossible to carry a reasonable size piece of plaster board up the stairs and as such i was forced to manufacture the new ceiling out of lots of little tiny pieces but the end result was still pleasing it equally was my first ever attempt at plastering a ceiling and i think that for a complete novice the results were well beyond expectations new joists in the ceiling will at least provide a flat base for plastering and additional support in the floor for what is to become renovated loft space in time i hate to admit it but it has been more than a wonderful adventure i love having a project and right now i have a fairly serious one to deal with but it has all been for the good l ennie arrived at manchester airport less than three weeks ago and i hired a van to go and collect her and the animals we have been apart for over six months and it was a reunion i was greatly looking forward to t he trials were not insubstantial the hire company with whom i had booked a van let me down at the last minute apparently they are renowned for this but i was able to make arrangements at the eleventh hour found my way to manchester airport and was able to locate lennie within this massive complex by simply looking for the largest pile of pep bags in the coffee shop lennie s much anticipated arrival the luggage is all here now to go and find the dogs i love my wife dearly but she can t pack her mantra is don t take one when three will do and i spotted the pile of luggage well before locating her she was huddled behind piles of pep bags in a fair approximation of tribal highlanders ducking down behind hadrian s wall but for the fact that hadrian s wall might appear insubstantial compared to the pile of plastic wrapped bags how it was all going to fit into the diminutive cottage was and still is something of a mysterious challenge we are in the process of practicing welsh cottage tetris and all of that amidst what is better seen as a building site than a home a further detour to collect the dogs the most expensive and pampered canis africanus in history was finally reunited with his family both buddy and harry seemed to have coped with the journey very well and arrived both good health and spirits a long drive back to wales and finally a chance to settle down in our new home as a couple or if you include the pampered pets a family p rior to this i had worked weeks on renovations taking rarely a day s break but for the arrival of my very best of friends peter who encouraged me to take a day or two to go fishing and rest from my labours the fishing has been wonderful and now all the various struggles seem more than worthwhile lennie and i are together again in the most gorgeous of locations fishing and dog walking on the door step and every interaction with others seems just remarkably easy and friendly w ales is such a special place we have a tiny cottage in need of some considerable loving renovation a view which doesn t include a single building but rather green fields sheep and cows the post office and corner shop is a short walk up the road and there is a pub in crawling distance not that we have visited or crawled home quite yet give it time t he office bedroom boasts a brand new ikea bed and mattress we are awoken by bird song every morning if we leave the double glazed windows open occasionally a car traverses the road on the front of the house but i am having to be careful on exiting things are so quiet that i frequently forget to look out for cars it is likely that my demise is imminent should a silent and electric tesla venture down the road in unison with my egress i have fishing just down the road and a lot more options a little further afield i have caught trout graying chubb and shad during my rest periods they are not rest days i haven t taken an entire day away from things so far cracking fishing just down the road i am surrounded by opportunity w hat i will say is that we are both absolutely loving it the people are friendly the scenery is amazing the fishing beyond expectations and the dog walking for lennie out of this world i even discovered that newbridge on wye has its own fishing club and fishing waters only available to residents of the town which means i am in competition for water with 15 other members i have yet to see one y es it is summer i am happily busy with renovations i am sure that there will be challenges but for the present we couldn t be happier with our decision to move the next project is to make better use of an entirely neglected roof space f riday we made our third hour long commute to aberystwyth to try to collect lennie s brp one is supposed to collect this within ten days but we had to move the location to aber on account of no longer being resident in the south one visit to make the arrangements and two further ones only to find that it wasn t there in a country were much if not most things function like clockwork it is an annoyance rapidly becoming a worry hopefully we will find resolution soon the wasted time and fuel costs are becoming onerous s aturday we hiked a short circular route through the village and around glorious countryside which is part of the wye valley walk sadly and we have had similar problems on similar walks even as an experienced hiker the way markers are woeful but the countryside and the views sort of make up for that and we will in time find our way around l ife is good and we are enjoying a relaxed weekend i will be back in the roof space on monday with further renovation and hopefully will shortly receive some response from the building control officer who visited briefly but has since then disappeared i have now been in the uk some nine months and feel happy that i have managed to achieve a good deal in that time although there is much more to do but it is simply lovely here this morning on an early walk i came across a local who was picking up litter not that there is much of that he has apparently taken it upon himself to do this on a regular basis for years it is the sort of community spirit which warms one s heart posted on july 2 2023 categories life in the uk uncategorized tags escape from sa escape to the country fly fishing wye valley renovating a welsh cottage south africans emigrating to the uk tim rolston 2 comments on welcome to wales visas and atrial fibrillation w hat a glorious spring day today the sun is shining the sky is clear blue and there is no breeze to speak of the forecast on awakening was 3 c which might sound horrific but it is generally a harbinger of clear conditions little or no cloud cover and a rapidly warming day t he clocks went forward on saturday evening here in the uk if you are not familiar with the process at midnight you simply tell your clocks that is one in the morning and get an hour s less sleep than usual officially the change happens at one but there is no need to stay awake most electronic devices properly set to the time zone will do this automatically anyway what that equally means is that you end up with more daylight during your working or relaxing time awake make use of the early morning sun and enjoy it lingering longer in the sky when you finish work the seasons are not universally lovely but the floral reminders that spring is on the doorstep brighten the mood and lift the heart t he reverse will happen in autumn and as a child i was taught spring forward and fall back as a simple means or keeping to mind the direction of the movement of the clock it is somewhat counterintuitive because you put the clocks forward and lose and hour but effectively then gain an hour of extra daylight from there on in we are just past the spring equinox where the day and night time hours are equivalent and all indicators from the clocks to the myriad spring flowers are that we are well and truly into spring and heading to summer in essence the changing of the clocks makes the most of daylight providing light mornings and gloriously late evenings in summer a fter ice on the road and on the windscreens the change seems near miraculous and today the celebration was in full swing a long walk through the country lanes from bude to marhamchurch cann orchard stratton and home in warm spring sunshine watching buzzards soar in the blue sky and herons stalk along the edges of the various waterways as i hiked in shorts and t shirt h owever before i was able to head out i had one commitment i have been experiencing increasingly frequent bouts of atrial fibrillation a not uncommon but equally not entirely pleasant fluttering of one s heart the first major episode was in sa when i was about to have eye surgery and as a result the process was delayed although thankfully fulfilled with great results not long after since then and after arriving in the uk it seems to have become far more frequent and i sought medical advice i t is really rather unpleasant and feels like one has a wet fish fluttering in one s chest the risks are not that high but there is increased likelihood of stroke due to stasis of one s blood washing about one s atria the smaller chambers of the heart a nyway after a telephonic consultation i went in for an ecg and today was due to be fitted with a monitor to provide a 24 record of my heart s behaviour wayward or otherwise and so it was that i went to neetside surgery to be fitted with the device it is pretty much the size of a sony walkman sorry for the millennials you will have to look that up it took a matter of minutes and on returning home i was determined to hike and make the most of the day l ife has been revolving around a lot of waiting waiting for the confirmation of house sale waiting for an appointment at the doctors waiting to move to wales and waiting for lennie s visa to come through added to that i am now waiting for my car to be fixed as it has a completely fractured main coil spring in the suspension so it is waiting waiting waiting stress stress stress a pparently af atrial fibrillation can be triggered by smoking alcohol use coffee and stress amongst other things and it would be dishonest of me to suggest that i have avoided or deny that i more likely actively embraced most of the above stress levels have been high as one might imagine despite all the idyllic hikes in rural cornwall s o now wired up i made a sandwich for lunch a flask of coffee and set off along the canal tow path the idea to replicate pretty much my normal days of late and equally to my mind to stress the system a tad to insure that whatever readings were to be interpreted later would be a fair reflection of a normal day i couldn t have been more wrong at least in terms of the normal day it turned out to be entirely if not abnormal at least spectacularly special not ten minutes into my hike i got a message on the phone confirmation that lennie s visa application to join me in the uk had been successfully confirmed and in that moment my heart skipped a beat perhaps a few p retty much the final hurdle of our move has been overcome i have a car albeit currently broken a house days away from completion of contract and my gorgeous and much missed spouse from whom i have been separated since november now has a visa that lovely lady in the red dress now has a visa my heart skips a beat when i see her but more so now that almost the final hurdle has been overcome i find it amusing that after download in a day or two s time somewhere in my nhs medical files will be an indelible electronic record of my upset p wave and disturbed qrs complex not as a result of imminent cardiac arrest but rather because my spouse has confirmation of her visa application to be honest had the message stated that the application had been declined most likely the heart monitor would have been located on my deceased body somewhere in a cow pat covered country lane and on analysis nobody would have been able to understand the sudden fatal change in heart rate this is fiction but my heart will skip at least another beat when lennie gets of that plane s o all is well that ends well lennie has her visa and i hope will be able to join me very shortly if we are fortunate shortly enough for us to celebrate at least on of our birthdays together a ll going well i shall be in my new cottage in mid wales in a little over a week my heart will keep beating i hope and i shall be looking forward to a reunion with my much missed spouse in the very near future s pring is here and life is good posted on march 27 2023 categories life in the uk uncategorized tags atrial fibrillation bude cann orchard 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