Archive for the 'House' Category

Attack Of The Buzzy Bees

Sunday, July 23rd, 2006

Today we had to strip part of the roof in preparation for the new dormer windows. This is a picture of me waving at passers by.
In part of the roof we have a large bees nest. Some bees are even getting into one of the bedrooms, and because they can’t find their way out again, [...]

Flawed Wall 2

Thursday, July 20th, 2006

Today we started to take out the wall between the living room and the back room.
We have tried to keep as much of the cornice as possible, as well as keeping the picture rail - which is now suspended on a few pieces of wire and will be fixed to the new wall when we [...]

Flawed Wall

Monday, July 17th, 2006

One the major jobs to be done in the farm house is rebuilding the wall between the living room and the back room (where the apprentice used to live).
The rebuild is necessary due to the large crack that runs for quite a way along the wall. Not only is the wall cracked, but the concrete [...]

Stair Master

Thursday, July 13th, 2006

Over the last few days Reuben and I have been smashing the heck out of the utility area at the rear of the farm house.
As the Lakin is an old house we are finding some interesting things, like this newspaper from 1936 under the lino on the stairs.
The main objective of all the heavy [...]

Newton’s Third Law of Motion

Friday, June 23rd, 2006

Newton’s third law states “For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction”. Very logical I’m sure you will agree. Do something and then something happens. Simple.
Well, a few things over the last couple of days have made me realise why nothing much gets done in the public sector e.g. the NHS.
Yesterday whilst working [...]