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*nods*. fiddly jobs=tedium :P Like to have the smoothest, silkiest hummus, they say you have to take the skins off all the chickpeas. I don't have time for that. :P

Our balcony, which is recessed into the building, faces south south-east, so it isn't bad; and frankly, given the hot summer temps and two solid storeys of windows on that side, I am glad we don't have the full sun pounding in on it. :P

If you read into it that the garden and flowerbeds and hedges (and chickens, mostly, but we always harvested them together) was my domain while he did the 9-5 (which, with his schedule was actually 12 hrs shifts plus 2 hrs of driving) "paid" job, then yes. :P However, he was my willing helping hand for digging ponds, mowing, brush-hogging... He did lots of moving and cleanup while I did the buying, planting, nurturing, harvesting, processing. ;) His main job was firewood: Harvesting the trees, cutting them down to size, stacking... :D

It is a very different life, this apartment living in another country!