Gutter glitter

Back to things more prosaic -  in this case, guttering. The gutters on this old house were long past their replace-date and when they were removed last week I'm told they were so thin in parts that "it was like cutting paper".

I calculated it would take two days for the guttering to be replaced on house and garage, however four men arrived at 7:30am, worked like clockwork and by 12 noon they were finished.

old gutters

New gutters: what a difference

The unrenovated Maribor

In among the  interesting cafes of Maribor you can still find signs of the old Yugoslavia. Near the large renovated square with its fresh new cobblestones is this old house with its peeling plaster and an old wooden door that looks as if it has not been varnished for a century.

Unrenovated house in Maribor

 If you walk into the door and along the courtyard inside you come to a narrow little yard with washing hanging on pulleys. It is old but swept clean and geraniums hang from the small balcony above. Past the washing is a forlorn but romantic garden lane with a little path through scattered leaves and a set of stairs that leads to the houses up the hill behind.

Old but tidy

Back garden of unrenovatd house

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