Nový Mlýn - green tech south bohemia

In all it’s glory:

On Friday our stuff from the UK finally arrived in John Davey’s van. Though we did the sensible thing… living in the Czech Republic for 3 months before we made a firm decision to move over here… it still feels a little strange - not now having a home to go back to in the UK. Suddenly I feel rather far from home.

John Davey did a grand job for us. Every single item arrived safe and sound - unlike our last move… of 2km - the casualty being my Ming Dynasty china (a grand name for what in fact was a soy sauce bowl!). I still have the bits & will one day find someone capable of fixing it for me.

So, as well as moving lots of boxes about we started some of the tasks we can handle ourselves, such as removing the alarming light fittings in some rooms:

M fitted a new main light in our bedroom & I cleaned up a pretty chrome light I found in the attic for the kitchen. We also noticed a big push button we’d not seen before in the dining room. We had no idea what it was for, so M pushed it and a red light came on, followed a couple of seconds later by a loud explosion. Read the rest of this entry »