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homers_double
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You may recall a shining knight...
I am now the not so proud owner of this...
It has three bedrooms, dining room, lounge, kitchen, bathroom, conservatory, garage garden etc etc...
It also has this bloody monstrocity adorning the lounge and dining room walls.
Well it did have until I turned with a lump hammer...
Current plans are to build a stud wall in that opening and fit a singled half glazed door to seperate the dining and front rooms.
Replaster the front room and dining room walls and ceiling and fit a new fire.
There is a very shoddy arch seperating the dining room and kitchen...
This will be reduced massivly but still left in place to give seperation between the kitchen and dining area - Leaving it in because it sort of forms the end to the kitchen units but it'll be squared off.
Decorate the whole house.
???
Profit.
I am now the not so proud owner of this...
It has three bedrooms, dining room, lounge, kitchen, bathroom, conservatory, garage garden etc etc...
It also has this bloody monstrocity adorning the lounge and dining room walls.
Well it did have until I turned with a lump hammer...
Current plans are to build a stud wall in that opening and fit a singled half glazed door to seperate the dining and front rooms.
Replaster the front room and dining room walls and ceiling and fit a new fire.
There is a very shoddy arch seperating the dining room and kitchen...
This will be reduced massivly but still left in place to give seperation between the kitchen and dining area - Leaving it in because it sort of forms the end to the kitchen units but it'll be squared off.
Decorate the whole house.
???
Profit.
Advocate of disc brakes.
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Vast improvement already
I'm just trying to imagine what was used as a template to form that arch :shock:my isetta is a 300cc bike0 -
I liked it, go on.. put it back...0
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Next years hot trend - Internal stonework.The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
On the basis that the whole world has been sold the "open plan living" dream by Kirsty, Phil, Kevin and the rest of the "property gurus" why bother putting a stud wall up and separating the whole thing up again? Just finish the return, carpet right through and sell it to the wannabees! (Assuming you're in an area that has people that watch the "aspirational" property programmes
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It was a thought however I feel the type of people looking to buy such a property aren't particulary fussed about that. If it were a three bed apartment in the city then I agree, however a bungalow out of town is going to attract, shall we say a certain age of clientel.Advocate of disc brakes.0
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Piña!!!It was a thought however I feel the type of people looking to buy such a property aren't particulary fussed about that. If it were a three bed apartment in the city then I agree, however a bungalow out of town is going to attract, shall we say a certain age of clientel.0 -
It was a thought however I feel the type of people looking to buy such a property aren't particulary fussed about that. If it were a three bed apartment in the city then I agree, however a bungalow out of town is going to attract, shall we say a certain age of clientel.
Better make them wide doorways then Trail fun - Transition Bandit
Road - Wilier Izoard Centaur/Cube Agree C62 Disc
Allround - Cotic Solaris0 -
I would knock all the internal walls down, fit a workbench, put bikes, a full size snooker table, a fridge, a TV and stereo system, a pole and make into the ultimate man cave.
BTW, I thoroughly resent that comment VN. It is quite possible that I will be visiting the big smoke soon and I know where you work.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
I think the word "work" is over doing it a bit.Advocate of disc brakes.0
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I think the word "work" is over doing it a bit.
Fair point. The absence of a lot of moaning and whingeing about the lack of minions to make him tea or shortage of Ginger nuts suggests that he didn't even make it out of bed. A four letter noun is all he could muster up today.
There's plenty of Ginger nuts up here, he can have 'em.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
We don't allow that kind of language around here. :shock:
I was avoiding the daily thread to let Fluffer think he'd killed another thread. I thought everyone else was doing the same it was so quiet.0 -
Vast improvement already
I'm just trying to imagine what was used as a template to form that arch :shock:
You're assuming they used one.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
I was avoiding the daily thread to let Fluffer think he'd killed another thread. I thought everyone else was doing the same it was so quiet.
You're far too clever for us.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
In the land of the blind the one eyed man is king.I was avoiding the daily thread to let Fluffer think he'd killed another thread. I thought everyone else was doing the same it was so quiet.
You're far too clever for us.0 -
:shock:BTW, I thoroughly resent that comment VN. It is quite possible that I will be visiting the big smoke soon and I know where you work.
Given the advance warning, by time you arrive London will look a bit like those intro scenes in '28 Days Later' once news gets around."I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
:shock:BTW, I thoroughly resent that comment VN. It is quite possible that I will be visiting the big smoke soon and I know where you work.
Given the advance warning, by time you arrive London will look a bit like those intro scenes in '28 Days Later' once news gets around.
Worth taking my bike and having a peaceful pedal around London then.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
Is it just me or did it look like the inside of a cave at the beginning?
Talking of which - the burd doing the slasher job to the carpet - any nork pics? Not her mum though, thank you very much.
Piña: if you head darn sarf, are you sure you won't explode in a puff of flames and Gallovidian? I once knew a girl from Cwmbran - the minute she went further than Cardiff she used to go into violent trembles and start weeping.....Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am
De Sisti wrote:
This is one of the silliest threads I've come across.
Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honoursmithy21 wrote:
He's right you know.0 -
OK. Just watch out for angry looking people with red eyes who are frothing at the mouth. They might as you to join the Labour party.
:shock:BTW, I thoroughly resent that comment VN. It is quite possible that I will be visiting the big smoke soon and I know where you work.
Given the advance warning, by time you arrive London will look a bit like those intro scenes in '28 Days Later' once news gets around.
Worth taking my bike and having a peaceful pedal around London then."I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
The "burd" in question is the Lady HD, nork pics are available however payment would be required in the form of a disc equiped S-Works (and not stevo's Lego version) before release.
And the other lady is my mum, not hers.
I hope not anyway as 6 years in the dirt after being subjected to an 800 degree blast have been suprisingly kind on her.Advocate of disc brakes.0 -
The "burd" in question is the Lady HD, nork pics are available however payment would be required in the form of a disc equiped S-Works (and not stevo's Lego version) before release.
And the other lady is my mum, not hers.
I hope not anyway as 6 years in the dirt after being subjected to an 800 degree blast have been suprisingly kind on her.
In order to avoid complicated HMRC type import/export taxes on the bicycle, would an IOU suffice?Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am
De Sisti wrote:
This is one of the silliest threads I've come across.
Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honoursmithy21 wrote:
He's right you know.0 -
Piña: if you head darn sarf, are you sure you won't explode in a puff of flames and Gallovidian? I once knew a girl from Cwmbran - the minute she went further than Cardiff she used to go into violent trembles and start weeping.....
A long time ago in a Galaxy far, far away. I fitted desks at weekends at Laing and Cruickshank, Barclays and a few other venues in the City and at the Goldman Sachs building when it was being built, for a company called SBF furnishings. Sometimes the jobs spilled over on a Monday and we got to meet all the lovely stock brokers. :roll:
My sister and brother lived there for a while. I'm familiarish with:
Ilford, Seven Kings, Wandstead, Clapham Northside, Wandsworth, Hampton Hill and Kentish Town. Spent quite some time convalescing and wandering around. Of course some people would mention a few of those places by 'Middlesex' or 'Essex' but I can't see where one part ends and the other starts.
Even lived at the Hammersmith Hospital for 8 months. East Acton is luvvly innit to look at out of the window. My ex lived in a flat above the Swan pub in Hammersmith, she worked at the Dove on the Thames. I used to visit her there when they let me out. She stayed in Woodford Green for a few months too with a rich and very paranoid family of the Tottenham persuasion: the house had triple locks on everything and was alarmed to the hilt. Nice enough people but permanently suffering from anxiety and nervous disorders.
Years later, as a stop gap, I used to deliver stuff to the smoke for a bathroom company from Wembley to Croydon. so I know it well enough; unpleasant, unfriendly, hostile, drab, chock-a-block with cars, expensive.
Norf road circular, lovely. Heafrow, lovely. Cherstsey, lovely, M4 junction/flyover at Hammersmith, lovely, Hanger Lane Junction, Lovely...
"London, you know - Cup of tea, fish and chips, Mary f*cking Poppins".seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
If you're driving round The Smoke then its not fun, but if you're tired of London you're tired of life - as the saying goes
Maybe people were only hostile towards you "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Pinno and Stevo = Boswell and Johnson. :shock:0
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If you're driving round The Smoke then its not fun, but if you're tired of London you're tired of life - as the saying goes Maybe people were only hostile towards you
You can stuff your bloody London. I know plenty of good souls down there but 'stressed' is the word that comes to mind.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
If you're driving round The Smoke then its not fun, but if you're tired of London you're tired of life - as the saying goes Maybe people were only hostile towards you
You can stuff your bloody London. I know plenty of good souls down there but 'stressed' is the word that comes to mind.
Not to mention eye wateringly expensive.0 -
If yif you're tired of London you're tired of life :
Samuel Johnson IRC before people start giving the accountant credit for creativity0 -
Do I detect a hint of sarcasm?
Or am I being sarcastic in asking? :?0 -
If yif you're tired of London you're tired of life :
Samuel Johnson IRC before people start giving the accountant credit for creativity
Well spotted that (educated) man.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
If yif you're tired of London you're tired of life :
Samuel Johnson IRC before people start giving the accountant credit for creativity
"Why, Sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford."
— Samuel Johnson
Boswell and Johnson were discussing whether or not Boswell's affection for London would wear thin should he choose to live there, as opposed to the zest he felt on his occasional visits. (Boswell lived in Scotland, and visited only periodically.
Hence my comparison to Pinno and Stevo.0
