Because it's American .
Because it's American .
WELL !!!!!!
Just as we were shutting the doors at the Polling Station we had a stampede of voters knocking aside a strange man wearing a huge " I VOTED " badge !!
And ( opening a Gold envelope ) .... after an all-night count .
Because I demanded three recounts to be certain .....
The White/ Offwhite / Sandy / Ecru? Party ............. 4¾ votes .
The Cleverly Camouflaged By Smothering In Green Paint Party ..... 0 Votes .
So the result is .... white ( ish ) .
I forgot to vote .
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Wasp
Katie probably learned American English, in Oz it is Mum - quite common here.
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Last edited by Wasp; 18-02-2014 at 06:09 PM.
@ wasp & fatone - Yes, I did learn the American version of English. I grew up with Webster's dictionary, not Oxford. Grew up watching Sesame Street, GI Joe, X-men, etc. I didn't encounter UK English until James Bond (Pierce Brosnan) and Harry Potter. The Phils is a former American colony, so waddaya expect?
But I do know the difference between to-mae-toe and to-mah-to, ee-ther & ei-ther, elevator/lift, pants/trousers, etc. Later on, it was fun to learn the differences (and quirks) of the Am and UK English.
Re: the columns - yay, the white/off-white/ecru columns win!
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Sadly the Polling Station was closed ....the building demolished and the land was sold by the time Neverna turned up to vote .
I'll put it in as a Postal Vote .
Wasp
There's not a lot left to say about this actual building .... until later in the year when we develop the side and the back .
Don't even really need to do that . Think maybe it's the Nicolas Ceausescu influence .
But there are still pictures emerging.
And I hadn't seen this one though I find it interesting .
That's the upper part of this house as it was when I first saw it .
Infills of different wood and someone's clearly lost their stair-banister somewhere.
This was after I had replaced the roof cozz in this picture you can see it's got those lovely new asbestolux roof tile things.
That little bikini grew to become the present deluxe bikini .
And this is the closest comparison - but unfortunately it's not quite the same angle .
I had a thought-provoking chat at this time . There was a young guy who owned a whole chisel all to himself { but the hammer was borrowed ) .
His job was to climb up onto the roof , cling onto that fascia board under the tiles ( with his toes ) and , using his precious blunt chisel , hack out the curved shapes into which would drop those roof panel things .
When I asked him about using a jigsaw he said to me that a jigsaw would be handy but then he would have the job done in two hours and he would only be paid for two hours . The blunt chisel took him all day so he got a full day's pay !!
No incentive at all for him to invest in a jigsaw !
There is one more elaborate change downstairs that I forgot .
Originally I only had two pictures of the dingy downstairs and I said it was just one quite dirty room which had rice , animal nests , dog poo , a suspicious bundle in the corner that turned out to be the indolent brother , and a stairway up to the living area .
But I was wrong . I had forgotten . In that ^ photo there you can see on the left a tin door .
That was the door to a primitive toilet .
Don't have photos of that ...... but after doing the roof I did some tiling on the ground floor and I tiled into that toilet .
Including tiling the top of a washstand .
But that didn't last long . Because we did all that ground floor work and we bricked up that door .
The closed-up door-way now has that green chair in front of it .
..... and a Roman King of course .
Moving along that wall ...... There's a unit with a tv , then the second green chair and a new door .
As I was saying .... behind that first chair was the toilet but behind that second chair was simply a wall and the outside .
Missy bricked up the first door and installed that second door .
The indolent brother purloined the filthy squat toilet in hopes of having his own place one day .
A fitting selection of component I think .
Behind that wall she extended out enough to make a new room --- a bedroom for the father for when he's too drunk to stagger home to his shack .
Which is most nights .
Now though he uses it more as a store room .
Wasp
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Last edited by Wasp; 24-02-2014 at 03:33 AM.
The next job --- it seems always --- is to start building walls .
The land from Missy's home to next door was open except for some trees and bushes .
So ..... dig out the scuff stuff .............
That raised soil and the broken stumps show the line between the neighbour and Missy .
Put in some posts .
..... and more posts .
Make sure your cement mixing trough has a big hole in it .
Then build 4 courses of blocks .
Now time for a lengthy chat about how is this pesky gate going to work ?
But they got it in and painted it .
And to save some cash some wire was run as a temporary step .
Really it's just to keep the neighbours sweet and separate the chickens and dogs .
The neighbours are crucial .
They provide the only way to get a vehicle in from the road because the other access points are blocked .... by FAMILY !!!!!
Anyway this wall and gate made the neighbours very happy .
Admittedly this is partly because I so casually put my hand on the furthest post and leaned against it looking very cool .
This stupidity was so extreme that the neighbours could only look open-mouthed as the army of big red ants stomped up the post and all over my arm and neck .
" Ooh - cute red ants !! "
But Bloody Hell . Not cute at all . Very nasty biting little shits they are . But a highly amusing cabaret for the neighbours .
Wasp
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Last edited by Wasp; 24-02-2014 at 03:40 AM.
You don't have couple columns left over?... Flanking each side of that gate and painted the same blue they would look awesome!...
Very nice blue columns there, Wasp. I like the horses - classy. Are Wat Wasp and Wat BD equal partners, or is Wat Wasp a subsidiary of Wat BD? What's the pecking order here?
No pecking order at all it is a BrotherhoodOriginally Posted by Wasp
Originally Posted by WaspI'm confused!Originally Posted by bankao dreamer
^ Bill, I think we've just unearthed the secretive 'Brotherhood of Peckers'...
... what were you thinking?
Of course I meant the ones who like wood.
... actually on second thoughts that may still be a bit misleading.
I'm talking about woodpeckers, like the ones below (not so much the hairy one perhaps):
Look, they already have an Ivory Billed one. Perhaps Wasp and BD might make space for a BKKBilled one if you wanted to join
Yes, the hairy pecker is a bit concerning. Actually come to think of it, a green pecker is not that great either...
I suspect the Brotherhood will ultimately remain a fairly exclusive one.
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Ah well it's the thought that counts ......, or so I've been told,
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Damn, and I was so close.
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