Been treated to an evening of homemade sushi and beer. Awesome Korean style fried chicken, crispy chilli squid and roll your own makis with nori, sushi rice, salmon, avocado, mayo and sriracha. Andy
Looks great. You could use a clear seal but it will darken with age anyway but you probably know that.
Well today I picked up my daughter and her boyfriend and took them to see her grandfather. We bent the Covid rules and went to see him with cousins too. After a day with the family around him this evening he passed away in his own home with his daughters by his side (One my wife). He’d always said he wanted to die in his own home and it was great that we all saw him today and it was what he wanted. A perfect day. He survived being shot in the war and a severe shrapnel wound. A really good man, and a really good way to go. I will encourage everyone to celebrate a good life of 97 years. Thanks Al you gave me a great wife.
Don’t. Celebrate, he had a good life. He was a genuinely lovely man. A fabulous father and grandfather but he’d had enough. We were so lucky to have today. We could have so easily missed it by going tomorrow. We’ll celebrate his life with copious amounts of Vodka because he was Polish. He did well, I’ll miss him.
Full on at the moment. Zed rebuild is going well. had a day in the garage yesterday. Wheels are back from the powder coaters, Cerakoting collected, random parts have turned up. Nitron cartridges are now with a guy called James Packwood getting rebuilt (local mechanic who does a lot of spanner work for BSB teams) Nice bloke. And yes to anyone that spots two lever guards (re the last 44 teeth news video).....i always have 2 lever guards....the amount of times theyve saved my knuckles from wind mirrors straps hanging off lorries etc etc i wouldnt be without 2....urban bark busters....cheap chinese shit thats there to get destroyed...and save my hands.
Garden today. I hate watching fucking gardeners world.....celebreties ponce around potting plants when back in the real world ill be digging up concrete blocks, kango'ing patios up and digging big fucking back breaking holes (to the earlier posters im 52 now) so ill be on the pain killers tonight... Funnily i dont see Monty fucking Don carring endless amounts of concrete blocks around or cursing trying to dig a hole when the cunt that lived there before you buried chicken wire in the ground, or trying to break up a path with a sledgehammer thats seeming to be never ending...
Stripped out old lath & lime render shizell from a bedroom. Then removed a 3 flue wide chimney breast. Bagged it all up in to rubble sacks and out of window to flat roof then on to yard. Reckon about 2 tonne; including the crap soft bricks we saved as well.
That’s the worst of it! Looking good though, if you get bored let me know I’ve got a shit-tonne of stuff like that to do.
I was just wondering what is supporting the rest of the chimney breast and chimney ?Or have you taken it down ?
In the first pic you can see the wooden beam that’s supporting the flue in the floor above. Wall plates due to go on and a bit of builders foam. Amazing stuff that foam
