Having a vision (or more than one)

Sometimes, when things break, one can't wait forever to get them repair. 

If we think about my attempt to destroy the (probable) original floor with vinager (which I mentioned here), I did apply oil on the tiles and it looks definitely better. I think some more treatments (and probably, a general one to the whole floor) will make it proper.

That was an easy fix, which didn't require an external intervention.

When we think instead about the kitchen stairs, the topic is more complicated. That is possibly something we can't fix by ourselves. Well, we could, but it would sum up on the list of tons of things we keep fighting with every day and I am not sure when we will actually get them done. At least, a temporary patch that would allow us to walk over it, that is.

 

The stairs have been patched

The company that will fix us new stairs during the autumn came also for handling the patch. 

When looking at it, it was nothing that absurd that we couldn't have been thinking about it ourselves, but yes. That was a couple of hours of their expertise vs our attempts.

The main structure of the fix

I am looking forward to have this fixed properly (and this is what I am thinking here when using the word "vision") but I am glad to be able to walk on the stairs without doing some acrobatics.

Talking of vision, I have a quite long term plan to crash myself over the area behind the pool. I have tried to fight ground elder for years and I keep doing that.

This year I have so far expanded the area that I have tidied up a little bit more. Of course, the ambition is to try to cover as much as possible of it, but between other emergency actions and the fact that I should really focus on windows and door restauration, I will probably not meet my target neither this year.

The area cleaned up of weeds (see the difference with the ground elder ocean on the left)

I am trying some new plants this time

I must say that the work around this is very satisfactory. Although it is always a bit irritating to see leaves of ground elder pop up there and then even if I have tried to be thorough in the removal.