The Tucker Stories

In preparation for our triumphant return to the States (in 140 days!!), Kelly has started collecting the bits and bobs of European goodness to adorn our home.  This time, she’s found the chimney cap for the fireplace!!  True, we don’t have a fireplace, yet, nor do we have the flat screen TV that goes above the mantelpiece, either!  All in good time.

Kelly had seen this from the street several weeks ago and she wanted to know where the owners got the cap.  What she found is a cast iron hand covered in copper and holding an umbrella made completely of copper.  All of this goes above the chimney as a cap.  So Kelly took a co-worker, Marion, to the house after work yesterday, but there seemed to be no-one home.  Today, they went back and tried the door bell again.  This time, a man came to the door and just BLASTED them in Dutch.  Now, Kelly doesn’t speak it but Marion is Dutch and she got the what for!!  Seems this guy doesn’t appreciate the Jehovah’s Witnesses coming around and took Kelly and Marion for them!!  After a quick explanation that they weren’t Witnesses but were interested in his chimney cap, he explained that he made it and was very receptive to the Kelly’s idea to commission from him another umbrella chimney cap.  So she’s put down €100 of the €400 total and we can expect completion around 18 May.  The guy’s site is here in German with the translation here.  Really, this isn’t a bad bit of kit and I’m certain that there won’t be another like it in Hope Mills, let alone the state of North Carolina!!  Now, about getting that large screen TV…

Cheers!!

PS:  I really should’ve put more effort into the editing of this post rather than watching the new Ski-Cross Olympic event, which is just mayhem and chaos on snow!

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