Coombe Barton

Has built the basis of the first baseboard today.Now for the surface and see if the plan will work.

Just back from ExpoEM

Off to Coldharbour Mill tomorrow (05:30 start) for OH's Archeology Annual General Meeting. I just want to visit the mill!

Evening task was to do some tiling in the kitchen - now I can really say I've had a night on the tiles.

We have a kitchen back and working. The age of miracles is not dead. Neither is the age of "Where the hell does this IKEA bit go?"

has just cooked in a partially rebuilt kitchen. Interesting!

Definition of sawdust - wood in kit form. However too much sawdust at the moment - not enough wood in finished state.

Is getting mega brownie points for sacrificing layout framing for kitchen mods.

is about to destroy one side of the kitchen and rebuild it. By Thursday night.

Family for lunch today - full dining table - Lamb on to slow roast - now just have to wait. Modelling taking a back seat.

The dogs have hijacked my computer - http://wp.me/pexI6-bt

kitchen rebuild come to a halt when new (deeper) sink needs to have water flowing uphill to get to waste pipe - so have to remove dishwasher + cooker + cupboard to reroute. All because water won't flow uphill.

needs to re-learn that the pointy bit on a Stanl;ey knife is there for a reason.

Lots learnt at the SWAG day yesterday - now back and wants to put some of it into practice.

Mr Nevard knows how to get attention with his latest blog post title

Secret of getting a day pass - show her a piccie of one of Mr Nevard's layouts and she says "Hey, that's good" and I can go!

Tip to the trip - or something like that

Long time since I;ve been able to spend time modelling, so: Mojo - check; Time - check; no other deadlines - check; Workbench - check. Now what the devil was I working on?

has spent the last three hours looking for the roll of aluminium oxide grit paper I know I have. Haven't found it but rediscovered a whole treasure trove of tools I'd forgotten about.

Starting three weeks hols - have to use up what I carried over from previous years.

54 yeears since the Richard Dimbleby April Fools Hoax - http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/1/newsid_2819000/2819261.stm - and yes, I saw it first time round!

is back froma canalside walk with the dogs, and a view of 5542 in GWR livery on the Battlefield line.

Back online - good support from Virgin Media - the tekkie guy knew what he was doing.

currenl.tly has no internet at home - may be a quiet weekend

Student question: "How do I get a first class degree?" "Work for Cunard" "The shipping company?" "That's not what I said"