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every evening at seven o'clock muneca till shuts up shop then she and her husband have their green house paradise to themselves glass houses like these
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normally house flowers fruit or tropical plants this one has plenty of plant life too but Monica and Tomas still have also set up their home here a stone building
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and case in glass mama you sensed it there's a protective shell over you and that's nice especially when there's rain hammering down but you can still go out and enjoy the greenery
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come on puts Timo's is cleaner the tills always get up early breakfast is at 6 a.m. in a setting more like a botanical garden sometimes they do get interrupted by
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customers coming outside of opening hours we don't open till 9:00 so there's no staff here yet Alton Isaiah but Thomas wouldn't dream of leaving a customer standing outside
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so he waits on her anyway couldn't the customers know we're always here one positive thing is we don't have to travel to work so it saves money as a custom finished the tills private home
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covers 120 square meters of space doesn't but in Queens so this is the green part of our living room we have various things growing here the vine is further along and it would be if it were
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outside here we have black wood bamboo it's suffered a bit during the winter but it'll recover what Cesaro in then we have a four tinium in Evergreen that many will know from Italy or other
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Mediterranean countries and over here is a variety of a fan palm which grows in the wild in Italy Italian bites Monica till has long since got used to living and working in the same building
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oh what's that son - what's our private living space is protected somehow it is an open house that's true but it's still divided up we don't have staff back here all the time in our private home I like
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it's from it happens you can even find a customer in your living room but not often in summer temperatures in the Glass House can rise to over 40 degrees Celsius so the blinds have to be drawn
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your license Amala buys it and somewhat unbuttoned when it's sunny we normally leave them a shut or partly shut all day we have to weigh it up but like now we're it's a bit cloudy you can leave it open a bit and then it's quite bearable
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Oh flossing done head went to overalls good job but what about the work climate what's it like for staff working right next to
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their boss's home mine this is Anitha it's not always easy we have a very personal and family like relationship with each other and with the bosses which is nice but if the bosses have a
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role when we feel it so it's all very authentic this head booklet and SCSI life's our attenders aah in 1993 the tills plucked up the courage to fulfill
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their dream they both knew what they wanted and completely agreed on the plan they invested several hundred thousand euros hard work and willingness to take a risk and it's paid off garden centers
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in Germany have a hard time these days competing with home improvement centers and discount stores that also sell plants Monica till works in distribution and rarely has to go out to do her shopping
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as she is practically everything growing on her doorstep my guns am hidden I can't quite avoid buying stuff outside now and then but we try to use what we
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already have here this is much better quality than anything you get in a supermarket a supermarket a diva here fiddles some of the neighbors complained during the building phase and found the whole
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business idea a little strange that hasn't changed but the tills don't care they're living their dream and aren't quite happy from us come have lunch yeah
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and everyday they draw inspiration from the beauty that surrounds them
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