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~Not sure I deserve too much praise as the joinery was simple compared to what you guys get up to but credit goes to these sealing strips which I used all round and have kept wind and rain out for a decade and a half and since I live on top of a hill in an old windmill , although the brick tower we live In was built in 1812 there has been one on the site since the late 1200s, they knew it was windy here! https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sunwood-Screw-Down-Aluminium-Intermediate-Capping/dp/B01NCEM5JQ/ref=asc_df_B01NCEM5JQ?mcid=29392b532cb93a5dacd8b4ad848b049b&tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=697257633820&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=15526614851363187047&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9046643&hvtargid=pla-956020270734&hvocijid=15526614851363187047-B01NCEM5JQ-&hvexpln=0&gad_source=1&th=1

just remembered what a job it was measuring the double glazing triangles at the far end! The cost of not measuring correctly was very High ! I thought it would be a simple matter of dividing the 180 degrees into 12 angles. Soon discovered that I had not taken the angle of the roof into account and that narrowed the 180 to nearer 150 degrees (I know I know, you need time to think about it!, I spent days!)

Well as Clint said, "A man's Gotta know his limitations". so we bit the bullet and sent it away to a friend of a friend who has a small business doing this sort of thing. The whole thing has been a big learning curve, from the selection of the English Elm the width of the slab, the first time using the Lucas slabbing attachment, first time sticking the planks and finding an open fronted shed for them to season. Then first time use of the Lucas planer, which replaces the blade. (very impressed with it) the first time use of sanding attachments which again replace the blade. Next decision on type of oil to use and decided on Tung oil. Then there was agony over the choice of legs, wood or metal, different designs, we started with cross shape but need up with the three legs you see in the earlier photo. When it came back they suggested it would sit better on two legs which it does, also not interfering with the human legs of the folk sitting in the middle However managed to put too much Tung oil on with not enough rubbing down, not happy with the result, hence sent away. Then there was the lighting! Went to B&Q bought half a dozen led bulbs and a dimmer switch, however nowhere did it say that the dimmer was not compatible with the bulbs so had to go and buy some more bulbs Hung them from a Beech branch lying across the beams. Now have a result that we are pleased with! I might add that I built the whole conservatory using Ash from the farm cut with the Lucas back in 2010 and it has never leaked. The wood stove heats a dozen radiators and keeps us warm even in those minus 5 nights we have just endured Many thanks for all you opinions and help and a Happy New Year to you all! Aarrow boiler stove, excellent machine! 6EACB80C-9D09-48DD-9506-70B883D2E744.heic

I see this fella can improve metallurgical skills but you are not allowed YouTube when you go back in time!

I'm serious, it is one of the most basic survival skills, most of us have watched Castaway struggling, but has anyone here created fire with just two bits of wood as our stone age seemed to have done at will.?

I think that judging by his leaden speech and general madness Starmer has already been lead poisoned!

Have any of you hard men of the woods, or gals, ever made fire from two bits of wood?

you would need to find some pancetta, spaghetti and parmesan , not sure if they were around then!

Only other thing is using cowpox as a vaccine for small pox. The only problem is when they say you scrape the scabs off a cow pox victim, cut yourself and push the scabs in to show us it works!

Boil your water is all I can think of. I could not even prove to them that the world was a sphere!

Here we are, with all our education and access to the mighty internet. If I gave you the gift of fluent Latin, and transported you back to the year 0, what could you teach them to their benefit?

Warning, you may be cancelled or even spend two years in jail for posting photos of snow! It doesn't fit the political narrative of children never being able to see snow again after 2012, and the net zero agenda because of warming

I see this appropriately is post number 999! Minus 3.2 last night here in Lincolnshire. Still freezing. I thought we were meant to be warming, children would never see snow again ( snowed here yesterday) would never be able to ice skate again ( the puddles down the farm track take the weight of the car). I thought that the Arctic was meant to be ice free by 2012. The Science is proven! We have four fires burning in the house, sorry about the emissions

It just keeps on giving!

My parents always told me not to play with fireworks, but I just loved lighting the blue touch paper!!

I do not see the headlight activated traffic lights or camera Activated ones around any more

Now I have turned something on, but there was no red warning! G.O.M.S. While we are on about Road Closed signs what about sets of roadwork traffic lights and cones and barriers that are not protecting a hole in the road, that could easily be shifted to the side after work , holding traffic up all through the night needlessly. Or similar in the daytime when nobody is working except for one man reading the paper in his van with the engine running. Talk about pollution as it is happening all over the country

On and on then! Or should it be on and off. The problem is I do not know which way to turn it off! On the tap in our new hotel room there is a red blob and a blue blob The problem is that when you turn the lever in the direction of the blue blob, the blue blob disappears and you are left with a very prominent red blob facing you. They need a fixed line to show which blob is active. It is not rocket science!

Apologies for my Americanism. I did use the word tap to describe earlier tap warnings and I thought that faucet was the new word to describe these single devices that control flow, temperature and direction with one lever. Every day is a learning day. I will in future refer to them as embuggerment devices!

Ok, I know I know bbbbut Back on the farm and in the Woods I cannot move for fear of violating some ‘elf and safety rule. Most of which are fair but a lot are bleeding’ obvious. Caution on working on slippery surfaces, caution on ladders and working from heights, caution when using teleporters when reversing etc Now staying in London at the second hotel and there is again a faucet on both the sink and shower with no indication whatsoever of which direction to turn it for hot or cold. In the old days of separate taps you would have a red dot on the hot tap and a blue one in the cold. Years before that it would by experiment I discovered one changed the direction from shower to bath but not before I had received a blast of red hot water to my head from the shower. I have like all of you learned that turning the faucet to the left would mean hot and to the right cold. But this faucet was mounted vertically to confuse further and there was no indication of which faucet controlled the shower/bath and which the hot cold.. It seems that there is no standard as each hotel I stay in is different You would have thought that things would improve over time especially where very hot water is concerned. Rrrrrrrrrrrr

Anybody else there to witness a fantastic game? A friend asked me down as he has permanent seats there. I have been twice before and not enjoyed it as it was either freezing cold or raining or both but this time the weather was perfect and I think they seem to have altered the floodlighting as everything seemed so clear. The atmosphere was great and also better than previous occasions I have just watched the Welsh game and thought that they did well in spite of the score. They were not only up against a great side but also up against a side that had obviously been given a strong dressing down by the management! The quality of passing and kicking is a joy to watch and also my attention is with the Red Roses whose handling and passing is also superb. Being a sad old git I can watch Ellie again and again!

It is a rare condition when certain people working with wood all their lives have their brain matter replaced with sawdust!

That is Compulsory Sunset Posting Syndrome!

Sorry about this, but I seem to have developed C.S.P.S.