The Brew Cabin

Posted: **Mon Oct 18, 2010 8:02 pm**

welcome back mate

Posted: **Mon Oct 18, 2010 8:04 pm**

Cheers bud

Posted: **Tue Oct 19, 2010 4:23 am**

hey stuarty

long time no see mate
what you been up to?
LLL

Posted: **Tue Oct 19, 2010 5:05 pm**

That my friend is a long story! To cut it short ( very short ), Start of the year, went out on my own! Went well for a while, got royally bumped out of a big payment. Ended up out of work, no motor, no tools, no house

got back on my feet ish, moved in the the bird, went tits up, homeless again! Sorted now though, working for a firm again, got a house (yay!) a wee van again, doing homers again and taking my mind off this shitty year by playing in the band. Been a 'testing' year this!

Posted: **Tue Oct 19, 2010 7:11 pm**

at least things are looking up, still in the leith area?.

Posted: **Tue Oct 19, 2010 9:09 pm**

Stuarty wrote:Im just outside of Edinburgh if its still of any use mate.

PM sent. :;):

Posted: **Tue Oct 19, 2010 9:21 pm**

Haha! Funny you should mention leith area rab, spent most the day working at leith, and 2 hours tonight not far from said area, although i was strumming the g-string, not removing one

heh :p

Posted: **Wed Oct 20, 2010 7:35 pm**

where were you playing?

Posted: **Wed Oct 20, 2010 7:51 pm**

rehearsing at verden studios at portobello, just behind kwik fit

Posted: **Sun Oct 24, 2010 1:42 pm**

First off, many thanks to Stuarty for popping over last night and taking a look at what we've done so far. Good to hear that we seem to be doing all the right things.

Any time you're passing, kettle's on.

Just stopped for lunch, and I thought I would give everyone a laugh with our latest discovery -

The Worst Soakaway, In The World.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_old_smiddy/5110467910/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_old_smiddy/5110466384/

Yes folks, you too can create a "Soak" "Away" using nothing more than a hole about 18" deep, some breezeblocks and a bit of plywood to cover the hole.

I think we might have found the cause of the damp in that corner.

I mean, who, really, would think that was a proper job?

Posted: **Sun Oct 24, 2010 6:16 pm**

Still, why let someone else's TOTALLY SHODDY work put you off?

Managed to dig out the gable end and fill the skip after lunch.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_old_smiddy/5110682595/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_old_smiddy/5111282494/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_old_smiddy/5110685817/

Posted: **Sun Oct 24, 2010 9:24 pm**

Good to see you got cracked on a bit more. It was no problem popping over

Posted: **Sun Oct 31, 2010 4:04 pm**

Not much to report this week.

Got a second skip and finished lowering the ground today. Found the remains of a clay-pipe land drain, two runs each a few feet long. Starting nowhere in particular, and ending a few feet away.

So, stage one completed. Yay!

The ground near the "soak" "away" is completely sodden, so the sooner I get that sorted the better.

The Brew Cabin

The big drainage sortout