After landscaping comes the big tidy up to get the renovation back into shape. Clearing the house in preperation for plastering, wiring, and flooring for the lounge. Outside I get ready for the new olive trees and other plants, trees and bushes that I have bought.
I love Sunday’s in Italy. I get so much done. When the weather is mild with blue skies, working from sunrise to sunset is really enjoyable….if topped off with a good glass of wine of course! 😂
Welcome to my channel about my big plans to renovate an old abandoned, rustic farmhouse that I bought in Italy. Not being able to live in Italy full time means that the Italian lifestyle and dream is one that I am slowing moving towards. My channel shows you why I chose to buy a house in Italy and why I chose the Marche region over places such as Tuscany, Umbria, Abruzzo and Puglia. A blend of renovation, exploration and reality with as much fun as an unfunny middle age man can muster.
Richard. 🍷
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CHAPTERS
00:00 A Sunday in Italy
02:24 Will this work on the roots?
03:17 Lunch with a view.
04:08 Mushrooms – edible or not ?!
05:05 An exhausting job…
06:33 The new steps idea
07:27 Power cables risk.
08:23 Colin has taken a hit.
08:44 I love working oustide.
11:43 A local wine.
12:23 Stars at night.
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30 Comments
I really do like your cute pet at 7:39 😀
Great video
Nice to see you back. Another great video. The best place for that myshroom/fungus log is on the fire. They are the devil's food.
Well done Richard. Amazing job.
Meraviglioso
I don't understand why you dismantled the washing machine. If you took it as it was to a municipal collection center, they wouldn't accept your washing machine?
Looks like good fun! Keep them coming!
Richard, there are plenty of tree cultivars, deciduous and evergreen, with a fastigiate growth habit ie columnar, that will block the pole with minimum loss of view.
Come winter the trunk and branch structure of deciduous ones will still hide it by breaking up its outline.
Flowering cherry cvs – pretty spring blossom
Birch species and cvs – light, dappled shade
Ginkgo biloba 'fastigiata' – stunning typical butter-yellow autumn foliage too.
Italian Alder (Alnus cordata) is fast growing and, like all alders, the roots develop nodules containing symbiotic nitrogen-fixing bacteria. Not the most columnar tho.
Evergreens and many more 🙂
You could get cheeky and plant a Hop at the base. Tasty asparagus-like spring shoots, it will climb well up the pole when established, but the vine can be cut away in the autumn. Useful aromatic flower cones too 😉
Was that his pet at 7:39? Big ass bird drying her wings stealing the show. I'd subscribe.
Oh, that was Colin.
I have nothing to say really, but I appreciate your content, and wish to help with the yt-algorithms.
The best tool for roots you can't get a saw to is a mattock.
I've been without wine for a week, including my birthday (thanks to Metronidazole & Amoxicillin).
Apparently the former makes you violently sick if you drink alcohol.
Tomorrow night, it's going to be a bottle of English Bacchus.
Omg there is a method to your madness after all😅.luving the plans,semblance of organisation,clearing away the junk❤😊😊
So busy Richard
You work very hard in your videos
Your place is looking so good
Exciting to see all you projects get done in the future
Take care and be careful not to over do
See you in your next video
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I would check on google to see if those are safe or take them to your neighbors and ask. They are pretty on that log. There is a girl I watch in Sweden that grows her mushrooms in logs. I’m use to doing mine in dirt in a dark area and keep the soil hydrated. Every mushroom has a different growing method based on the type. So for those that think they’re yucky, so be it, but you’re missing out on their health benefits.
1. Can decrease the risk of cancer.
2. Lowers sodium intake. For this with HB, that’s a win.
3. Promotes lower Cholesterol.
4. Protect brain health.
5. Provide a source of vitamin D.
6. Stimulate a healthier gut.
7. Support a healthier immune system.
Obviously Not the Devils food.
I would put in french doors from your living room. More Light and a better view outside. It would make the room feel bigger. Are your fire logs cut to size?
Great video Richard. Well done on all the hard graft, loved the cement bag settee with a view. Stars and wine – perfect, dolce vita 👍👍👏👏👏
You could check on Google lens to see if they are edible!
Got to love a bonfire, so satisfying.
I'm really enjoying you series! I have a property in Northern Ontario and I'm constantly moving "stuff" around. I use an old ATV and a Bush Burrow trailer. The ATV is a real workhorse! I would highly recommend getting one.
Great video. The house is looking like your home. Great contrast with the sky and nature. Bravo.
I have been living in Le Marche for 23 years now and apart from the stunning scenery the most important feature is that it is genuine and not geared to foreigners and turismo like Tuscany. It is possible to have only local friends,so I please ask you not to overplay the sale of properties to non locals. Enjoy as you are and please do not take away what is so special there….real life and relations
That’s how my mind works too wine goes off if you don’t finish the bottle 😂
Shame the plan wasn't to further shave those levels more into the hill, then the view from your new window would encompass even more of the valley.
Also they could have made the extra soil swerve more to meet up with the driveway rather than a steep ditch between the two areas.
Just a thought.
Lots of land, lots of jobs, lots of money.
Been there – so I know how it goes.
If I wasn't covered in dirt or concrete dust, than it was paint.
Looks amazing but I’m worried about the double banks surrounding the house and water ingress later? You must have thought about this and have a plan??
having a week off, so I can finally catch up with your adventure, Richard.
binged the last 5 videos 😋
you've come far. but it's good that you're not rushing it and taking it slow. though, yeah, sometimes it could be faster, but that's Italy 😅
how much was the costs at the end for the landscaping, if I may ask?
I wanted to check your setup (tech thing) as I noticed you upgraded, but when i click on it, on your Amazon page, it says "the link you clicked, may not be working", so maybe check on it
may I ask, where you will you be or already did, buy the olive trees?
saluti from the south of Italy 🍷
A quick question, if I may? What are you planning to do long term re: a car / transport when staying at your lovely Italian home? I'd love to do what you're doing and buy a place in Italy, but I'm in Scotland and it would probably take me 3-4 days of long days driving to take my car (each way!), so if owned a place in Italy (that I would spent 3-4 weeks at a time there), I figured the ideal scenario for me would probably be a cheap car I could store somewhere near an airport, and use it 5-6 months of the year (spread across these visits). However, I believe owning a car in Italy is for some strange reason tied to residency, so from what I'm reading I could not own a car. Is that something you've been thinking about, or do you think for longer stays you'd always just drive with your "UK car"? Or do you think you'd just go for monthly rentals?
Don't you need to plant something on that bare hill to keep it from washing away
i have to say your channel your videos are some of the most enjoyable to watch and even when i’m very busy i am happy to get caught up 😄