Match Day Thread A Blank Weekend
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Wow. That is very interesting. The house in which I used to live on Malmesbury Road narrowly avoided a bomb, and even where I am now up off Winchester Road there was bombing not too far away. That's a hell of a lot of bombs in one day!
Indeed - that was just two nights, as well.
One of my customers lives a very nice semi on Malmesbury Road where there is a big gap in the terraces caused by one of those red dots. Another customer has different bricks on the front corner of the house where one of those dots took out the corner of the house.
Hard to believe it all happened in my Dad's lifetime. Then again, he was in an RAF bomber going the other way to dish out the same thing. No way to resolve problems, is it?
Vin
This house used to be half of a semi detached until Herman Goering remodelled it: http://tinyurl.com/jdpq8qx
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The timber came up lovely for your desk, and your office sounds like it'll be splendid Vin. Are those standard 38 x 225 x 4000 boards you'll be using to face it with? I'm going to use mine as part of the structure once they're tongue and grooved, so that the overall thickness of the walls is kept to a minimum and still allows me to put a decent amount of insulation on the inside, rather than using them to clad the structure which will only be 3m x 4m.
I'm also using scaffold boards to make the 4m curved roof beams which is going to be a challenge keeping them light and strong at the same time.
I'm not putting windows in at all, and instead am going to drill a load of 25mm holes in concentric circles where the windows should be, and plug each hole with a piece of acrylic bar cut to length - it'll allow enough light through to be able to see well inside, but I figure the front will be open most of the time that I'm likely to be in there so the "windows" are largely just there for aesthetics. It also means that when the front is lowered, you will be able to walk all over it as there won't be windows that need to be covered in order to use the front wall as decking.
The shed part is going to have a door that is split half way, so that the top half swings upwards, and the bottom half swings down and becomes a ramp so that the current mrs Rorschach can get her lawnmower in and out easily, cos I'm caring like that
I want to put in a little cast iron wood burner in one corner though, so that I can use it as my man cave in the winter months and I'll have electric lighting and sockets for when I do use it at night or when I don't want the front lowered.
Just need to buy half a forest worth of timber and I'm good to go.
They really do come up beautifully. Planed, sanded, stained and varnished, no-one would ever believe they were used by builders for a few years. The use gives them a gorgeous patina. I buy 3.9m boards from the Southampton Wood Recycling Project off High Street, though when I buy enough for the office it'll be elsewhere (probably ebay). I've threatened a coffee table but I'm awaiting design ideas from Mrs Vin.
Curved roof beams sound like a step too far for me. Mine's going to be a joist framed cuboid with the boards hung on the outside, 150mm insulation and plastered inside. The plan is to run the business from it so I'll have an employee working in there with me eventually - I want it very well insulated and it needs to look like a workplace. Windows and french doors reclaimed double glazing units painted grey, 5 deg pitched roof, lots of different stains on the wood. I'm tonguing and grooving the boards with my router; still debating whether to run them through the thicknesser beforehand.
I'm planning on putting down a concrete base in a fortnight at which time I'll be rather committed to the project.
Vin
Don't worry Ides. You did say "when the weather gets better." I was just saying that it's still fun even in the most appalling weather(as long as it's safe).
We need some of the rain that has been falling on the UK for much of the winter! It has rained twice since the beginning of November, neither amounted to much.
Just returned from a cream tea....given to me as a Christmas present. Sandwiches, scones and cakes at the Essex (lovely old restaurant in Godshill). The building's history dates back a 1000 years and was named after the Earl of Essex who visited whilst planning against the Spanish. Queen Victoria used to take her tea there....good enough for her, good enough for me.
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We had a cream tea in Godshill a few years ago but think it may have been in The Old Smithy. Love cream teas
Old Smithy does good teas...massive cakes. I have another cream tea to have at the Ventnor gardens. People know the way to my heart......so does cholesterol.We had a cream tea in Godshill a few years ago but think it may have been in The Old Smithy. Love cream teas
Not seen this production, but I do like the Nuffield as a theatre. The intimacy and cosiness that it has makes a production very immediate and vital. A Midsummer Night's Dream would be perfect for it, though I've always tended to see Shakespeare in the open air for some reason. Just gone that way. Among those I can recall off-hand there was a delightful AMsND at Netley Abbey, under the trees, during midsummer of course. An actual tearful Romeo & Juliet at Montisfont Abbey, and a hilarious Twelfth Night at The Minack Theatre in Cornwall [though the whisky helped]. Yes, I've seen several productions indoors, but Shakespeare really works well outside with a great backdrop.
The last show I saw at the Nuffield was a one-man play on Sherlock Holmes which lasted for 2 hours and felt like 20 minutes, it was that good. Might give your production a go, St.G.
I saw As You Like It in the pouring rain outside in Ireland 3/4 years back. Excellent apart from trying to stop the rain getting into my wine.
Nothing, what's sup with you?
