timber frame house

[matelot]

21 hours ago, canoehead said:

None of the fires were accidental, everyone knows the companies that plant eucalyptus forest are responsible, but no way of either proving it, or preventing it from happening again. 

 

 

 

I'm gutted for you  it was an amazing looking house and the woodwork looked first class.

 

Why are the eucalyptus companies starting the fires?

[peatff]

If they are making money from the eucalyptus by pulping it why would they set fire to it ? It's bad that the fires happen and the eucalyptus contributes to the rapid spread of the fires and anyone who deliberately sets the fires should be at least charged with attempted murder. I'm sorry for the  loss of your property and it must be devastating to lose what you put so much of your life and soul into.

[Daniël Bos]

Eucs have evolved to not just have the ability to survive fire, they need it to make their seeds germinate. Presumably they're trying to knock out any competition and at the same time get the ability to expand their business?

OP, my commiserations.
It's the stuff of nightmares to have your life so rocked.

[Ciaran Taylor]

An amazing piece of work.

"Great men are forged in fire, it is the privilidge of lesser men to light the flame."

[gobbypunk]

oh my god what a massive blow your house was so cool , I have an old De Walt cordless drill 2 batteries , if its any help in re building your tool collection you are most welcome to I would be so sad to loose all my tools prob got some wood chisels as well , give me an address and I will post them , your attitude is amazing I wish you all the luck for the future

Cheers Mark

[spudulike]

What a bastard of the biggest order, puts most of our life niggles in to insignificance, hope you dust yourself off and get your lives back on track though how I am not sure as it must have been an awful loss but you still have each other and your inner strength and wish you all the luck in the world!

[hplp]

I was deeply shocked to hear of your news. I often think that as people we are guilty of becoming hardened to bad news, but in this case it effected me as its so obvious the here today and gone tomorrow that the whole incident had. You have lost so much.

 

Im much earlier than you were, on a similar journey towards a simplier life, but I do hope that you manage to get sorted and manage to find the strength to start again.

 

All the best,

Hugh.

 

 

[AHPP]

IF you can keep your head when all about you 
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

 

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools: 

 

If you can make one heap of all your winnings 
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

 

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
' Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,
if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!

 

 

That was a fucking handsome house. Hard luck and good luck.

Edited December 11, 2017 by AHPP

[Mark Bolam]

No words mate.

[Arctostaphylos uva-ursi]

What a stunning house. I am sure the next one will be miles better.

Wishing you and your family all the best for the future.