[Ruined Abbey. (Don'td be afraid).]

So impressive, it makes me want to cry over my own inadequacies.

A friend of mine, who used to live in Northumbria, and I were on a business trip to Canada, and we latched on to a tour of a forest (or something that I can't remember). As the tour guide pointed out that the trees were almost a thousand years old, Mike turned to me a grinned "oh, so almost as old as Whitby Abbey then!"

[Basic base board construction with easy alignment.]

This is really helpful, thank you. I had considered plywood, but am concerned about splintering. Do you finish off your baseboard in such a way as to avoid this?