Druidic Dabblings and General Twaddle !!

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DaveDCB

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know exactly what I want .. have every last detail designed - all sat in my head, right down to connections, crane rail, second mezzy floor in one bay with machine shop below, and Druid's / boys toys office/model display area/cab.s above :giggle: ... will only have to come in to eat /sleep then :LOL:
Best get the planning app in then
 
TiltyShaun

TiltyShaun

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guy I know who used to build chicken sheds did that to get around planning .... as long as they were mobile and moved a foot a year he got around it. No Idea how he sealed them to the floor though. Currently doing life in Caerdiff nick for strangling his bit on the side :rolleyes:
Another guy put an old railway guards van in his garden and the wheels had to do one full revolution a year to avoid planning, so laid an extra 8ft of track that it sat on and shunts it from one end to the other ... planning actually comes out and checks he has regularly :LOL:
Had several discussions over the years regarding mobile homes when we used to supply and erect them. There is nowhere in the planning act that states they have to move. They just need t capable of being moved. Upset many a Planning Enforcement Officer when I was able to quote case law!!
 
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Smiffy

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Had several discussions over the years regarding mobile homes when we used to supply and erect them. There is nowhere in the planning act that states they have to move. They just need t capable of being moved. Upset many a Planning Enforcement Officer when I was able to quote case law!!

My dad put one of those log cabins in his garden for my brother to live in. Too big to transport on the road so he got a oscillating multi tool and made it look like it was cut in half and then attached lifting eyes. Planning left him alone as they couldn't disprove that it can be moved.
 
V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
well that was a busy day ... this must be approaching a record :oops: ...... 386 quid :( and still had to go back in for the bloody milk ... forgot to put it on the list, but didn't have space in either of the two trolleys for 6 x 4 pinters anyway .....
hopefully will not be doing that again for a month
must take a couple of pairs of Mole grips next time - clamp the trollies together .. a mind of their own side by side unattached :mad:
God only knows what it'd've been in Morrisons in Aber.?:rolleyes:o_O ...
's nigh on 6ft table ... the two girls supervising the 'shop an' rob' tills were impressed by its length :LOL: ..... just kept coming .. thought I was gonna have to coil it up like a rope :ROFLMAO:

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on another note ...
Vicki and Chris's new hutch completed at noon today - at last .....
picked up the keys late afternoon - Vicki on a course 'til three and Chris at Clara's harvest festival service, then pick up Harper from her Friday nursery.
Hope the out-goers left the place clean and tidy, as contracted, crap free and a rose / pendant light in all they've removed ..... or they'll be getting invoiced for any hassles :rolleyes: .. and my time will not be cheap :giggle:

weekend'll be spent relocating a houseful of stuff :)(y)
 
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6feetdown

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well that was a busy day ... this must be approaching a record :oops: ...... 386 quid :( and still had to go back in for the bloody milk ... forgot to put it on the list, but didn't have space in either of the two trolleys for 6 x 4 pinters anyway .....
hopefully will not be doing that again for a month
must take a couple of pairs of Mole grips next time - clamp the trollies together .. a mind of their own side by side unattached :mad:
God only knows what it'd've been in Morrisons in Aber.?:rolleyes:o_O ...
's nigh on 6ft table ... the two girls supervising the 'shop an' rob' tills were impressed by its length :LOL: ..... just kept coming .. thought I was gonna have to coil it up like a rope :ROFLMAO:

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on another note ...
Vicki and Chris's new hutch completed at noon today - at last .....
picked up the keys late afternoon - Vicki on a course 'til three and Chris at Clara's harvest festival service, then pick up Harper from her Friday nursery.
Hope the out-goers left the place clean and tidy, as contracted, crap free and a rose / pendant light in all they've removed ..... or they'll be getting invoiced for any hassles :rolleyes: .. and my time will not be cheap :giggle:

weekend'll be spent relocating a houseful of stuff :)(y)
I'll just leave this here, not bad for an old dog 😄

"two girls supervising the 'shop an' rob' tills were impressed by its length :LOL: ..... just kept coming .."
 
V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
on another note ...
Vicki and Chris's new hutch completed at noon today - at last .....
picked up the keys late afternoon - Vicki on a course 'til three and Chris at Clara's harvest festival service, then pick up Harper from her Friday nursery.
Hope the out-goers left the place clean and tidy, as contracted, crap free and a rose / pendant light in all they've removed ..... or they'll be getting invoiced for any hassles :rolleyes: .. and my time will not be cheap :giggle:

weekend'll be spent relocating a houseful of stuff :)(y)
Two excited grandchildren outside their new front door :giggle:
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V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
been here most of the day :rolleyes:..
snagging, replacing light fittings that 'got took' :mad:
removing crap curtain poles, sorting blinds and all manner of other tish ... reading meters and searching for the water one .. not where we were told it was :unsure::unsure: .. think I've found it on Guggle erff tonight (y)

the Kid's new abode :).....

moving starts in earnest tomorrow, having gotten the place a bloody sight cleaner than 'as found' :mad:
too wet to be shifting a great deal today ...
'sposed to be a lot better tomorrow :giggle:🤞🤞
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Furniss

Furniss

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been here most of the day :rolleyes:..
snagging, replacing light fittings that 'got took' :mad:
removing crap curtain poles, sorting blinds and all manner of other tish ... reading meters and searching for the water one .. not where we were told it was :unsure::unsure: .. think I've found it on Guggle erff tonight (y)

the Kid's new abode :).....

moving starts in earnest tomorrow, having gotten the place a bloody sight cleaner than 'as found' :mad:
too wet to be shifting a great deal today ...
'sposed to be a lot better tomorrow :giggle:🤞🤞
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Garage and parking 👌 bit of a rarity over there, nice one !
 
Stock

Stock

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Must remember this place for when I am In the Welsh neck of the woods........................................................................................................
been here most of the day :rolleyes:..
snagging, replacing light fittings that 'got took' :mad:
removing crap curtain poles, sorting blinds and all manner of other tish ... reading meters and searching for the water one .. not where we were told it was :unsure::unsure: .. think I've found it on Guggle erff tonight (y)

the Kid's new abode :).....

moving starts in earnest tomorrow, having gotten the place a bloody sight cleaner than 'as found' :mad:
too wet to be shifting a great deal today ...
'sposed to be a lot better tomorrow :giggle:🤞🤞
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V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
Garage and parking 👌 bit of a rarity over there, nice one !
park at least six, seven if I'm packing them in ;) .... worth a fortune in Aber. to have that amount of parking :giggle: ... 's a nice size plot TBF ... had to be bought - one way or another :)(y)and it's a nice quiet area ... I lived literally around the corner until I was eleven and know the guys who built the two semis together for their own homes ... the fella who built this one - his two sons, my brother and I spent a lot of our child hood / teenage years together ... 50 years since I was last in it probably.
plot in red .... 07.00 'til 22.00 big Londis round the corner :giggle:
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Must remember this place for when I am In the Welsh neck of the woods........................................................................................................
plenty of parking here too Stock ;):) ... Mog turns his unit around no prob.s and have had plenty of 8 wheelers in and turned :giggle:
Bet the garage will be the first conversion
will be a while Dyl ...
house is plenty big enough for a while and it's very handy storage for now ..
the lounge is next to the garage and a couple of feet wider ..
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's a very good sized hutch .. kids ain't gonna know themselves for a while :giggle: .......
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first night in it tonight, after moving washing m/c, tumble drier, fridge, big freezer, dishwasher, wardrobes, cupboards, stripped and reassembled three beds, all the white goods in and operational, I've had enough for one day ...
Chris has been running back and fore all day with all the other miscellany in a tranny
Pam and Vicki have cleaned it top to bottom yesterday and today .. she's banjaxed too :rolleyes:
 
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Quattromike

Quattromike

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park at least six, seven if I'm packing them in ;) .... worth a fortune in Aber. to have that amount of parking :giggle: ... 's a nice size plot TBF ... had to be bought - one way or another :)(y)and it's a nice quiet area ... I lived literally around the corner until I was eleven and know the guys who built the two semis together for their own homes ... the fella who built this one - his two sons, my brother and I spent a lot of our child hood / teenage years together ... 50 years since I was last in it probably.
plot in red .... 07.00 'til 22.00 big Londis round the corner :giggle:
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plenty of parking here too Stock ;):) ... Mog turns his unit around no prob.s and have had plenty of 8 wheelers in and turned :giggle:

will be a while Dyl ...
house is plenty big enough for a while and it's very handy storage for now ..
the lounge is next to the garage and a couple of feet wider ..
's a very good sized hutch .. kids ain't gonna know themselves for a while :giggle: .......
first night in it tonight, after moving washing m/c, tumble drier, fridge, big freezer, dishwasher, wardrobes, cupboards, stripped and reassembled three beds, all the white goods in and operational, I've had enough for one day ...
Chris has been running back and fore all day with all the other miscellany in a tranny
Pam and Vicki have cleaned it top to bottom yesterday and today .. she's banjaxed too :rolleyes:
Getting shot of the overgrown hedges round the garden would make a good odds to garden space, give the nippers more roaming/ adventure space
 
V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
Getting shot of the overgrown hedges round the garden would make a good odds to garden space, give the nippers more roaming/ adventure space
agreed .... all in good time Mike ;) ... some of it's 6ft thick, but does make for great privacy ... can't be overlooked in any direction currently ;) ... the direct neighbour, Ray, is the guy who built them with Terry, he's in his 80,s and from a conversation I had with him several weeks ago, does like his hedges :rolleyes: :) .... currently at war with the neighbour, t'other side who keeps chopping holes in his hedge ... she's been sectioned once and done for criminal damage to Ray's hedge, by plod :oops: ..... all in good time. Let's get settled in first :unsure:
 
V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
day dried up nicely 'bout eleven :giggle: so got the Caddy out :) (too damned windy for the MIG :() and dragged some bits out for assembly, that I'd gotten cleaned off Monday. (y)
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had just gotten these together and it started to spit, so shot 'em back in the dry, along with me gear and went and had some lunch, whilst the clouds did their thing ... :rolleyes:
got all the side and end rails socketed up after and then got the legs onto the long base members ... quietly running out of light and clouds heading back for another session ...:(
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all tucked in the dry for tonight, 'fore the heavens opened ..... (y)
Nice to be making summat again :)
could be Friday 'fore I get another chance :cry: ... 40+mm of rain forecast here over the next two days :unsure: :censored: ..... so can probably double that :(:mad:
certainly coming down out there ATM !!
 
V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
well we certainly got the rain and sooome sort of winds ☝️☝️ ...
dry this morning though, as forecast, after another very wet night ...
first job on the agenda was sort out the ol' DC01 ...
wondered why it refused to pick Squeaks fur up yesterday, so investigated and found an issue, so knew where I was looking this morning ...
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two spares in stock .. job sorted ..... God knows how the belts stick the tension they're under (or the motor bearings, for that matter) ..
quite a wrestling match, getting it back together under tension ...
probably been on there three years and lasted well considering .
couple of other odd jobs and clear the Morso out .......
fetch some more blocks for it - actually lit it last night - so cold and miserable out.

then it was 'bench time' :giggle: ...
so hauled the first bit out, got it set up and tacked to the bench
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didn't want it moving about whilst I set the rest of it up :rolleyes:;)
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cut list was perfect and everything went together like a glove ..... (y)
time for some tacking up :)
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followed by some consolidation
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and a flip over for t'other side .... did consider employing little Jake for the flip, but it seemed manageable :rolleyes: - just about ......
wouldn't wanna be any heavier though :rolleyes:
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laid it over onto the floor and then hauled it back into the same position inverted, for lifting back onto the bench
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firmed up on the underside face, up-righting it was a bit more of a handful, but managed to get it up ... on both edges
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may have been a bit over enthusiastic on this bit ...
gut muscles complaining a bit this evening, but got it done ...

running out of light, by the time I'd gotten both edges done ...
tidied up and thought I'd bang a coat of ali on at least one side -- forecast heavy rain again tonight, but another dry day tomorrow and the ali dries as fast as you can get it on there :giggle:
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hopefully it WILL be another dry day tomorrow and I can get this finished off.

after the winds we've had yesterday, was expecting to find a lot more leaves about...
enough though ....
was hoping that the wind direction'd carry them all off into the surrounding fields ...
this lot managed to defy them and end up here ...
loads more left on the oaks though :( ...
need some more westerlies to send them away from me patch :rolleyes:
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this is the collection
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from the last two weeks .... 's a lorra rain :oops::oops:
a hell of a lot more than we're told has dropped out the sky ... and that's not accounting for evaporation !!

 
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