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Come Inside... => Saloon Bar => Topic started by: Nick on September 15, 2007, 08:39:31 AM
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Oh dear. The builders arrive on Monday. All they are doing is fixing one wall in one room. The room has the normal number of walls (4). I suiggested we should move everything from one side of the room to the other to give the builders a clear space to work in.
Oh no. We have to pack EVERYTHING in the room away. This includes: 1 piano, the 13 boxes with the new dining thingy in them, 1000 books (boxes to be had from Tesco), about half a ton of Mrs Nick's tat, another dining table, a telly we haven't switched on for 10 years (dump) and other miscellaneous tat. I have no idea where all this stuff is supposed to go. Do I really have to put the piano in the kitchen?
The builders will be here for 3 days, at the end of which everything will have to be returned to its original location evil: pending the arrival of carpet layers (October) when IT WILL ALL HAVE TO BE MOVED AGAIN (twice) cussing:
Why can't we just cover stuff in dust sheets? noooo:
Oh and I forgot. Whole stereo system with wall mounted speakers and associated wiring Banghead
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Oh how well I know this scenario ....... You may recall we were in a similar state on your recent visit. Still not straight.
One piece of advice though ~~~ WATCH OUT FOR FALLING WARDROBE DOORS!
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I see trouble ahead...
Take my advice:
Banghead
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I have just got a TV, old computer and ancient video machine in the car (along wtih other tat that Mrs Nick does not know I am disposing of like her collection of empty shoe boxes.) None of this helped by the scaffolding tower outside the back door. evil:
She materialised and said. "NOt the video!"
I am now going to have to prove to her that a) it doesn't work and b) is no use to us even if it does.
Banghead Banghead Banghead
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Empty shoe boxes!?!?!? But they are so useful! And some of them are special boxes I am sure! eeek:
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Empty shoe boxes!?!?!? But they are so useful! And some of them are special boxes I am sure! eeek:
You know ~ Mrs Snoopy said exactly the same thing. She added that in her opinion Nick would be so deep in the sh*t when Mrs Nick finds her empty shoe boxes gone it'll take him a month to dig his way out.
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What good are they? See also: 3 dozen empty cassette cases. Why?
They have gone too!
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I?m demolishing a chimney on Monday ? I may produce a picture diary so you can see what goes wrong? evil:
Mrs. Barman insists that the whole room is cleared and covered in double-triple dust sheets and the curtains are taken down and stuff? ::)
Of course dear, of course? whistle:
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Our problems in the dining room started with a chimney that had not been used for over thirty years. Have you any idea how much soot can fall out of that when the first two bricks are removed?
Let me put it this way ~ we will not be spring cleaning the house for the next two years after the blitz we have been through because of it.
Clear the room and wear a mask is my advice ~ or get a man in and blame him.
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Our problems in the dining room started with a chimney that had not been used for over thirty years. Have you any idea how much soot can fall out of that when the first two bricks are removed?
Let me put it this way ~ we will not be spring cleaning the house for the next two years after the blitz we have been through because of it.
Clear the room and wear a mask is my advice ~ or get a man in and blame him.
The 'man' quoted between CY?200 and CY?550 to do the job? I figure that?s money in my pocket for a fisheye lens or jet engine? whistle:
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I had a man in to do it .... both he and I ended up looking like
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Mrs S looked more like
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She was not amused
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It?s a new house ? what could possibly go wrong? rubschin:
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There's a tall guy, lives not too far from me.
I intend to ensure that is engraved on his tomb stone. You may know him.
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There's a tall guy, lives not too far from me.
I intend to ensure that is engraved on his tomb stone. You may know him.
Well, I just set up the camera to take the 'before' picture and the battery is flat... not a good sign. noooo:
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I got tricked into taking the curtains to the dry cleaners after I took them down.
?90!! eeek: eeek: Banghead
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I?m demolishing a chimney on Monday
er, why?
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I?m demolishing a chimney on Monday
er, why?
New property, chimney has never been used ..... makes perfect sense whistle:
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My mind was going in that direction too. Seems like asking for trouble to me!
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Shoe boxes are useful for all sorts of things. Like holding shoes, organising tat, as picnic boxes, school projects. The tape boxes could go but shoe boxes you will be in trouble for.
Landlady is coming here isn't she? She's allowing home improvements to occur in her abscence! eeek:
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Shoe boxes are useful for all sorts of things. Like holding shoes, organising tat, as picnic boxes, school projects. The tape boxes could go but shoe boxes you will be in trouble for.
Landlady is coming here isn't she? She's allowing home improvements to occur in her abscence! eeek:
In the trade it's known as making sure your fingerprints aren't at the scene of the crime. whistle:
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I?m demolishing a chimney on Monday
er, why?
So we can build another one... whistle:
It doesn?t seem such a good idea when you write it down? rubschin:
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Shoe boxes are useful for all sorts of things. Like holding shoes, organising tat, as picnic boxes, school projects. The tape boxes could go but shoe boxes you will be in trouble for.
Landlady is coming here isn't she? She's allowing home improvements to occur in her abscence! eeek:
I don?t think she can bear to watch? noooo:
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And you plan to have this all done before she gets home?
My man said to me "In my twenty years in the building trade I have never known a single job to complete on time ~ that only happens on Changing Rooms"
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I?m demolishing a chimney on Monday
er, why?
So we can build another one... whistle:
It doesn?t seem such a good idea when you write it down? rubschin:
eeek:
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I’m demolishing a chimney on Monday
er, why?
So we can build another one... whistle:
It doesn’t seem such a good idea when you write it down… rubschin:
eeek:
Errr Bouncer ~ do you think we should start bailing now?
Hang on ~ I know what he's up to .... remember he wanted a bigger aerial .... well you can see how his mind is working.
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And you plan to have this all done before she gets home?
My man said to me "In my twenty years in the building trade I have never known a single job to complete on time ~ that only happens on Changing Rooms"
Demolish a chimney, build a new one and install a gas fire in two weeks? what could possibly go wrong? rubschin:
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Shoe boxes are useful for all sorts of things. Like holding shoes, organising tat, as picnic boxes, school projects. The tape boxes could go but shoe boxes you will be in trouble for.
Landlady is coming here isn't she? She's allowing home improvements to occur in her abscence! eeek:
Typical woman. We talk about chimneys and she is on about boxes! ::)
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I would be thinking about ways of causing Landlady to 'accidentally' overstay.
Just in case.....
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I could show her around Libertys eyes:
Oct 17th only though whistle:
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Demolish a chimney, build a new one and install a gas fire in two weeks . .
rubschin:
Bricked-up fireplaces are second only to new patios in the Miss Marple manual.
Everything OK with Barlady. . . . ?
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Demolish a chimney, build a new one
QUe?
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Queue?
He needs a bigger satellite dish and the chimney wasn't big enough to nail it to.
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Demolish a chimney, build a new one and install a gas fire in two weeks . .
rubschin:
Bricked-up fireplaces are second only to new patios in the Miss Marple manual.
Everything OK with Barlady. . . . ?
whistle:
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I could show her around Libertys eyes:
Oct 17th only though whistle:
Ohhhhh Libertys. I'm not allowed in there for quite some time. Mr Wench got rather cross the last time I went there. redface:
How did Mrs Nick take the loss of her shoe boxes?
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I could show her around Libertys eyes:
Oct 17th only though whistle:
Ohhhhh Libertys. I'm not allowed in there for quite some time. Mr Wench got rather cross the last time I went there. redface:
How did Mrs Nick take the loss of her shoe boxes?
She is probably now occupying them all and neatly stacked in the bricked up fireplace.
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I could show her around Libertys eyes:
Oct 17th only though whistle:
Ohhhhh Libertys. I'm not allowed in there for quite some time. Mr Wench got rather cross the last time I went there. redface:
How did Mrs Nick take the loss of her shoe boxes?
She hasn't noticed yet. Tons of other stuff has either vanished or emerged from obscurity during the upheavals. SHe is purring over some old newspapers she found in a carrier bag. noooo:
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I could show her around Libertys eyes:
Oct 17th only though whistle:
Ohhhhh Libertys. I'm not allowed in there for quite some time. Mr Wench got rather cross the last time I went there. redface:
How did Mrs Nick take the loss of her shoe boxes?
She hasn't noticed yet. Tons of other stuff has either vanished or emerged from obscurity during the upheavals. SHe is purring over some old newspapers she found in a carrier bag. noooo:
See that is something I don't get. But Mr Wench collects them. ::)
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Why?
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Why?
I've never been able to get a sensible answer out of him. He just retaliates by pointing at tat mountain and I shut up. redface:
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Wherever we go Mrs Nick buys up local newspapers in English, French and Spanish. She then keeps them for years. SHe uncovered her Montreal collection yesterday. She has not and will never read them. scared2:
PS: Granada visit in October. That job!!
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Ohh is that rearing it's head again?
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Ohh is that rearing it's head again?
Oh yes, she asked last night ( I was multi-tasking at the time) whether we ought to move there, given her meeting at the University in the third week of October. We are flying to Malaga and doing Murcia, Granda, Seville and the Malaga again.
Pity in a way I fancied the Salamanca/Santiago circuit this time.
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I was vaguely aware that something has been missing from my life recently.
Exploding badgers!
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I shall send one to you in the post
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I shall send one to you in the post
Can't you fax it? Wouldn't want it to go off....