Hoorah the gates are hung; and the posts have been filled
with 6½ mixes of concrete; which Brett had to mix by hand, in a wheelbarrow with
an enchada (the wonder tool), he said it was much easier than mixing it with a
shovel. We spent ages with bits of string dangling down the centre of the posts
trying to position and attach bits of metal to the hinges (to set in the
concrete thus increasing the strength of the posts and hinges).
Our entrance looks very grand now; unfortunately I don’t
think I’ll be able to paint the gates before we leave as more rain is forecast
for much of next week.
Tonight we watched a harrowing film ‘Emotional Arithmetic’
about the meeting up, after about forty years, of three of the survivors from a
holding camp, near Paris, from which Jews were shipped off to concentration
camps during WW11; it wasn’t a very cheerful film, but it was very well acted
(Susan Sarandon, Christopher Plummer, Gabriel Burn).
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