… with the emphasis on “odd”.
At first glance these two photos may appear to be what they look like: a pair of closed balcony doors and an electric fan. But in fact they are examples of “if you don’t look too closely it’ll pass muster”. As some of you know there are six fabulous balconies here at casa az, which let in lots of light and really make the apartment feel bright and spacious. But none of the balcony doors have ever closed properly due to the landlord not doing regular maintenance – they are all warped and rotting because of this neglect. But suddenly, after years of neglect, this week Pepe the landlord took the too-little-too-late decision to hire an old carpenter to come and “fix” the doors. On all the apartments. The poor old geezer – he had no idea what he was in for. By the time he got to my apartment (the last) he was so fed up that every door caused him to exclaim that he hated doing work that was futile and that all these door should be ripped out and replaced … and of course I agreed. But I was very impressed that he actually managed to get all my doors to close again with the latches. There are still gaps but at least now they don’t blow open with every gust of wind. And so when it came to fixing my bedroom electric fan today I decided to take a lesson from lovely ol’ Juan (we were quite friendly by the end, a bit like comrades in arms) and try to make do with what I could find at hand…
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