I need to cut some of the glass from the green house that I picked up the other day (post here https://bhhh.co.uk/another-green-house/). So I got myself a glass cutter, scorer thing from Screwfix. Then I proceeded to break a small pain of glass until I learned to score it properly. This was some better results as I learned what I was doing. I found that if the score line is really nice with no breaks in it, and it makes that sound like a good weld bead going in, then it’ll break both easily and really nicely. If it’s hard to break then it’s going to break anywhere but on the line.
Dad gave me a whole load of Sallow trees (Back in April or May), a few as cuttings, a few with roots that we’d pulled out of the -paving and yet more that we’d pulled from a drainage channel. Most it did make the journey home as back then it was very hot. Some of it lasted a number of weeks in a put, but then we have had this hot dry weather and it perished. Two of the bits that we’d pulled from the gaps in the paving slabs appear to have made it though. Also in the pot are a variety of other successful plants. When I say successful you can read weeds if you’d prefer. We have a spider plant that I guess got in there from the plant that Dad gave me on the same occasion and also a tomato, though I am unsure quite how […]
We finally painted the chimney breast with it’s first mist coat and then 24 hours later with it’s first full coat of white paint. It needs another 2 coats, at a minimum, and there is a possibility that one of those coats will be a stain blocker coat. There are some patches on the sides that were not freshly plastered and had wall paper on prior to this which are showing marks through the paint.
I decided that new glass was too expensive and second hand glass wasn’t much cheaper. Whereas entire second hand green houses are quite cheap by comparison. So we picked up an 8ft x 8ft green house from a place near Weymouth. I was worried that the glass wasn’t going to be right and having not checked this could have been a rather sorry story. But 2 hours of taking down and another hour loading it all onto the land rover and then after a careful drive home, I was pleasently surprised to find the glass an exact match. Even though this other green house was a far higher quality item, the aluminium profiles are far superior. Much more ridged. I was able to complete our green house, bar one pane that requires cutting, and for that I will need a glass cutter /scorer thing. Dad said he’s never had any […]
We visited the Tank Museum in Bovington on Monday. It was great, though I had it in my mind that it was all about tanks, hulking great machines with tracks that are super capable off road and technologically advanced and so on. I was really looking forward to have a good look at some large bits of machinery. It had skipped my mind that they’re actually machines for killing people. So perhaps taking our 4 year old daughter wasn’t as great an idea as I had previously imagined. Of cause the museum is ordered from the first world war onwards through the various conflicts right to todays latest and greatest waste of human life. Gladly Abigail didn’t seem to realise the significance of the machines. I was impressed by the tank cut into two halves, it was cool to see.
I had made up dash ends way back (https://bhhh.co.uk/dash-eend-bit/) in March. Now I really liked the brushed aluminium that I made them from, but I found that there is a good reason why dash boards in cars are usually black, if they’re not you get reflections in the windscreen, which is super annoying. So I have painted those bits black now:
I did my second volunteering day at The Kingcombe Centre on Monday. I had great fun doing odd jobs about the place. Stop a door from jamming on the frame. Put up 10 “Please close the gate” signs. Weave more hazel branches into posts for the compost area. Dismantle a tree guard and recover the timber. Build a couple of shelves in the workshop. Add some lower bars to two gates to stop the sheep escaping. Mow around the garden area where I had previously mowed and also the paths. Trim some over grown plants off the path. Move chippings back up the access drive way to the overflow car park. They had a few sheep turning up to help turn an area into a meadow. This meant I had to jump to the sorting the gates promptly. This was unforeseen, but the fella who’s sheep they were said that […]
Tonight i changed the brake shoes on both rear drums. So that’s a good job done. My phone battery went flat so I didn’t get many photos. I cleaned a lot of muck out of the near side drum, that’s the amount in the dust pan. The other side was far cleaner. New shoes went in pretty easily, plenty of copper slip was applied to all mating surfaces. So it should all come apart again just fine. I shall have the fronts off in the next day or two just to see the condition.
WSP UK allows/encourages it’s employees to take two days a year to carry out volunteering activates for local charities. I chose to take my two days to work for Dorset Wildlife Trust at The Kingcombe Centre. I did some grass cutting and then a little light DIY work during my day there. I really enjoyed being outside and doing some real work. I should have taken some more after pictures, I got plenty of before photos.
On my way to do my volunteering day at the Kingcombe Center, I thought I would take a more direct route that might be fun. The lane was very scratchy from the beginning to over half way. I will not be doing this one very often, although the bottom most part of the lane was fun and pretty clear. I had to cut back a few branches to get through easily. I may return one evening and do some more significant clearing.
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