Who's getting bored or it. Now?

[Mick Dempsey]

Thanks, he’s a cabinet maker by trade, we sort of made it up as we went along.

 

 He's not a man of many words but he’s quite proud of it.

[spudulike]

Always busy, got a few jobs done, read a few books, veggies are doing well, walked miles, around 5lb in weight loss, built a guitar that actually works, learnt a few riffs, still working on and off and enjoying a bit of free time after 38 years of constant work! I am concerned about the future economy and health but could keep this up for a long while yet.

[John Shutler]

41 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

We (the hired man and me, well mostly him tbh) built this during lockdown 

A carport for me and the wife’s cars, been talking about it for years, no excuses now.

Total cost of materials around 5k

Rather pleased with it.

very nice

what the planning situation for that sort of thing in france?

[Mick Dempsey]

We’ll do it retrospectively, I can’t see it being an issue, rural France is being depopulated for demographic reasons, even in the 15 years we’ve been here, I’ve noticed the desertification of the hamlets and small villages. Old people dying and no one wanting their houses, so they fall into disrepair and collapse.

[scraggs]

I'm bored of it, it's been non stop since we went back after the 3 weeks off.
I keep saying it has to slow down but it's just getting busier every week.
I have taken the decision to do of much of it as I can because I think once people start realising quite a few ain't going to have a job to go back to things will slump, but tbh i'm not sure how much more I can do at this rate.

[ABtrees]

I think the lockdown has been a bit more serious in France so a bit like Mick - took the chance to do something that I've been meaning to do for a while - got an old logged planked up by a friend of mine, then built my missus a bench for her birthday.  Tried to follow the lines of the tree where poss.  Made a few schoolboy errors, but never done anything like this before, so don't be too harsh eh!

[Mesterh]

7 minutes ago, ABtrees said:

I think the lockdown has been a bit more serious in France so a bit like Mick - took the chance to do something that I've been meaning to do for a while - got an old logged planked up by a friend of mine, then built my missus a bench for her birthday.  Tried to follow the lines of the tree where poss.  Made a few schoolboy errors, but never done anything like this before, so don't be too harsh eh!

That looks really nice.

 

I've been working most of the time, trying to help the mrs out when I can as she is working from home and expected to put a full days graft in while looking after two kids and home schooling them. She is well and truly sick of it and it is obviously affecting her health. If we were both furloughed we would be far better off.

 

Half way through it at the best. 

 

 

 

[The avantgardener]

I am loving the time at home, especially with the weather being so good for so long. I have done most jobs around the outside of the house, things I have put off for ten years, including a new workshop milled from Larch I felled last year.I have had a couple of jobs that I couldn’t avoid and the sound of the alarm clock pissed me off, I will be back nose to the grindstone soon enough so I am no rush to get back, not so much fun if your up to your neck in debt I suppose.

[Mark J]

I'm in no hurry to rush back to how things were.
When talking about the detrimental and very real effect of lockdown on peoples mental health, I think it's important to bare in mind that the previous setup was less than utopian.

 

[Paul Cleaver]

Im bored now but my 2 day a week will be upped to 5 or 6 shortly.

Have a random pic of a Celtic coin I found just before lockdown