cheers fellas
the dumb well is basically a rainwater storage facility that the victorians used
each well was around 12-15ft deep and fully brick lined and rendered internally
rainwater would enter via a4 inch clay pipe and could then be pumped back out via a hand pump to the poor servants for washing the masters clothes
similar to what some eco places do now with green or recycled water
anyway good day today 12 tonnes of grit sand and 56 OPC
screeders arrived and got stuck in
too them 3 hours to use nearly all the sand
rooflight nearly finished
and the steps waiting for some harvest sawn courtesy of the ever so helpful London stone
plasterers and chipies in tomorrow and YES it will be done before xmas
Been reading one of your books Tone, the god delusion, i like richard dawkins, he has a refreshing logical take on things, you read any more of his stuff?
I am not a fan of his Dan
read the book one xmas and it made me feel uneasy
reading "the dark net " at the minute that is good and "the road to little dribbling" by bill bryson
he always makes me laugh
LLL
I am not a religious person but respect others rights to believe in summat to help them through the day
dawkins basically says they are all stupid
it made me quite uneasy
LLL
lutonlagerlout wrote:I am not a religious person but respect others rights to believe in summat to help them through the day
dawkins basically says they are all stupid
it made me quite uneasy
LLL
Agreed. I'm an agnostic and do agree with much of what he says.
I wouldn't want to be stuck in an elevator with him for too long though. He's a miserable and arrogant sod.
DNgroundworks wrote:Bill Bryson is ace, have you read his history of everything (i think its called that)? What the dark net? author?
Why uneasy Tony?
It's a short history of nearly everything if I recall correctly. Great book. First time I'd experienced the history of the earth depicted in correlation to a 24 hr clock. Really makes you appreciate how insignificant we are as a species on the grand scale and how infinitesimally insignificant one human life span is.
He does say they are stupid i suppose, but his argument is well put.
The first few paragraphs of brystons book are fantastic forest aren't they? His comparison of the earth in our galaxy as one grain of sand in the sahara and the galaxy as one grain of sand and so on, really made me think. Before the big bang.......define nothing? No darkness/light/quiet/noise/hot/cold - difficult init?
michaelthegardener wrote:thanks I bloody hate concrete fence posts
You tried the lightweight ones? They are ok on your own.
how did you manage to get away without timber bolted on to the left hand post for the gate furniture?
Dan the Crusher Man
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michaelthegardener wrote:they were the light ones but I still hate them there is timber bolted to it but its mostly hidden by the slot in the post
10 ft concrete gravel boards are the worst IMO. They're about the same weight as a mortised concrete post i.e bloody heavy, but that extra 2 ft in length makes them just a bit more awkward.
I try to avoid lifting them on my own cos they cut into my skin.
there is timber bolted to it but its mostly hidden by the slot in the post