…he works from 9 to 5 and then…’ A classic in it’s day. 1980 – a fabulous year for both music and fashion. The point is not to dwell on ozone destruction from hairspray abuse or the temporary worldwide domination of stonewashed denim across the Western world (legwarmers optional) but the fact that my life [...]
Category Archives: building
A moment’s silence please…
August 1, 2007 – 6:51 pm
Today I lost an old and trusted friend. He fought his ailments valiantly for months – subtle club hammer surgery and regular tractor grease enemas but sadly to no avail… Ten years we’ve been together – a beautiful union of man and machine. Builder and mixer together as one, endlessly churning out muck for me [...]
Lunchtime snoozing…
July 19, 2007 – 10:13 pm
During lunch banter is usually fairly loud and predictable. AD rants on about how many women he wants to ‘do’ or waves he wants to ‘nail’ (I think that’s the right way round) and we listen and groan in the available spaces. Today the conversation drifted to interesting sleeping arrangements… The usual drunken ‘halfway home [...]
The day of rest…
July 15, 2007 – 6:39 pm
Several days ago I posted about the ridiculous heat that was somewhat hampering progress at the Grindstone. Perfect for the weekend however, lounging by the river supping an ice cold Magners (yes I still have one left!) and an ice cream or two – until I awoke this morning to a heavily looming sky. For [...]
Some like it hot…
July 13, 2007 – 4:39 pm
It’s tricky building a roof here. For months on end it seems like it’s time to brush up on ark design and start slinging pairs of woodland creatures into crates or it’s hot enough to do a round of easy over on rye on the bonnet of my car. My horrifically annoying alarm has been [...]
You know when you’re so tired…
July 3, 2007 – 9:19 pm
…that you don’t even want to take a shower after work? That’s when they feel the best. Night all… I didn’t surf today.
I love a challenge…
July 2, 2007 – 6:34 pm
My new house – I’ve posted a few more ‘before’ photos at flickr. I must be stone cold bonkers – I’ve just spent the best part of ten years working on (or working for the money) to rebuild a pile pf rocks. Then I go and buy an even bigger pile. It is right by [...]
Another day at the orifice…
June 27, 2007 – 6:44 pm
Dear Mr and Mrs Loverly Clients, today I took your old roof off, got sunburned, knackered and have dirt in places no dirt sould be. Tired now. Goodnight. Penfold (the builder) PS I’ve been trying to come up with some sort of bribery to weedle votes for Big Blogger from everybody but I shall just [...]