Burnham wood

On Sunday I made a brief foray into town to admire the spring funfair which is in town. However they were still setting up their stalls, and it was roped off from the public. The wildest thing that I could see was dodgems.
Disappointed, I made a circuit of the fair’s perimeter looking for a newsworthy photo. Nada.
Then I spotted a pile of timber on the road, between some parked cars. My brain being a bit slow, I thought that perhaps it was someone’s revenge. Instead of dumping a load of manure on the town hall steps, someone had dumped a load of wood instead.
As my brain struggled to cope, a young boy came out of the shop doorway nearest to the wood, picked up a bit of wood and began playing about with it.

Then I noted a pile of wood similar in size to the external one, inside the premises.
Still struggling, I raised my eyes to the shop sign. It was a pizza place specialising in pizzas made in a wood fuelled oven.
So now I know for certain that this place actually does use wood.

11 October 2008 Saturday - Pizza

There may well not be any builders today (they are coming back to finish up on Monday afternoon), but I still have to get up early. I missed out on buying fruit from the market yesterday and I am down to my last peach, 6 yellow plums and some grapes.
Once again the tenants downstairs woke my up at 5am.
It is a lovely warm day today from early on.
Intermarche first to buy some supplies, then followed by a trip across the car park to Bricomarche. I buy some clear varnish (a bit of a mistake as you cannot see where you have applied it on the velux wood, some lino glue and a nice “private property” sign to add to my car park “parking prive” signs. Unfortunately they only have the one sign in stock and I want two, so I will have to look next time. I also want two number 12 s to make it look more like my parking area belongs to a house number.
I give parts of the velux a first coat of varnish, and treat the worktop also. In three hours I can start applying a second coat.
The rest of the afternoon is spent bringing my blog up to date.

The old shower base

replaced by a sink unit






wall cupboards above the cooker and base /work top unit






Ah here is my pizza oven.






When it comes to evening meal time, it is time to break out the pizza that I bought earlier in the week as the first thing I cook in my new cooker. I take the wrapper off my 3 cheese pizza, then I look at the cooker dials and realise that I don’t know what the symbols mean. I read the pamphlet that came with the cooker. I have to have the oven on at 250 degrees for an hour before I use it for the first time, to get rid of any manufacturing residues. I also have to put on each hob ring for 5 minutes on full heat.
My pizza therefore takes an hour and 10 minutes to cook. The pizza is perfect.
I will leave the excitement of preparing my rings until tomorrow.
By the time I go to bed, I have given the worktop 3 coats of varnish and I have prepared part of the living room wall for wall papering tomorrow. If conditions are right.