I have set about beginning to gradually build Abigail a dolls house. I’m taking an iterative approach to it, I set about just creating a couple of floors and two walls, no windows or doors, to see how she likes it. I felt that she’d just want to play with it, regardless of whether I think it’s finished or not. So I did some building, then let her have it, and then next evening took it away and did some more building.
Got the green house back home today and also picked up two loads of paving slabs from within the village. We carried the green house home, out down the road through Cattistock and were luck enough not to meet a car. The Land Rover seemed well down on the springs. As you might be able to make out of the tape measure, it was about 3.5″ of difference between loaded and unloaded.
We got offered a green house the other, so today I set about removing the glass. It’s quite time consuming unclipping and removing pains of glass that are grown in with moss over many years. I might try just carrying the frame home in one complete piece.
Decided I’d shorten the weeds a little, the grass was starting to get a little long also. The edge was not what I like to see, so out came some files and eventually the grinder. This edge was done with a file and elbow grease, the other was done with the grinder far faster, straighter and easier. I didn’t get a picture of edge number two. I did mostly cut the grass having done that. Just need to go around the garden with the strimmer now.
I have a very minor oil leak from someone around the swivel, probably form the swivel seal. We’re talking over the course of a week perhaps a few drips. Annoying but not a disaster, I had put new oil into the axle and swivels a year or so ago, so I will drain out the oil and replace it with “One Shot” grease, this should to be thicker and hopefully not leak out. I left the oil draining over night so as to get most of it out. Drained the oil out, it looks a little emulsified. The seal and swivel look okay, perhaps the seal is just old and failing to press against the swivel well enough. Next job is do the refill with the One Shot stuff.
This is a pan break that I modelled and produced the drawings for so that a friend could make it. Someone else designed this here: http://users.beagle.com.au/lathefan/panbrake.pdf Here is the link to the original Onshape cad workings: https://cad.onshape.com/documents/4e084330c4bb2c72d9c473c3/w/7f1fe66a99922d5bb992e55a/e/e9faf74864547b1cbc168896?renderMode=0&uiState=625fe846beff82562db9b28d Here is a PDF export of the drawings:
The fire place and chimney breast is drying nicely. That’s Friday early morning and later on the afternoon or evening, Saturday morning and afternoon and then Monday afternoon.
I managed to get a Golder sign from the old Bourne End office before they tossed them all in the skip.
We have had Jason from Burnwood Chimneys in to do the rip out and creation of the opening for the stove. Me rremoving the wall paper before Jason arrives. Day one, the demolition was mostly completed. Day 2 rebuild in progress. Drying well.
Hannah found that she had accidentally brought a tortoiseshell butterfly into the house. We think it came in on a bag that wound up in the bathroom.
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