Gimme dirt, gimme dirt, gimme dirt - dirt -dirt!
Gimme dirt, gimme dirt, gimme dirt - dirt -dirt!
That's rather nice-looking dirt , yobbzzy.
Looks like you could grow some nice stuff in that .
Wasp
Two days after the delivery of dirt, the roofing was delivered. Please see the picture in my previous post. The colour was not chosen to match the dirt, but as every other house in the village has a bluish-turquoise roof we decided to be a bit different. In the future, when we have finally completed the build and settled in, first time visitors will be told to look for the house with the red roof. That is assuming that subsequent builds do not copy us .
I believe that despite the enormous odds which exist, unflinching, unswerving, fierce intellectual determination, as citizens, to define the real truth of our lives and our societies is a crucial obligation which devolves upon us all. It is in fact mandatory.
If such a determinations is not embodied in our political vision we have no hope of restoring what is so nearly lost to us - the dignity of man.
Harold Pinter - on accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature.
I'm sure they won't .
Wasp
We started with a picture and a plan, and a smallish sum of money that I had been granted by Her Majesty's Government for deferring my Retirement Pension claim. Engaging a company to build the house was not economically possible. Armed with the picture and plan, we asked some locals with building experience how much they would charge for building the house. We would buy the materials as necessary. This system worked without too many hiccups. As the cost of building materials seemed to be rising steadily we managed to buy (and store on-site and off-site) almost all the necessary materials within the first two months. This resulted in our using up most of the budget almost before the roof was on. The workers started at breakneck speed, and I was worried that at some point I might not have enough money in the kitty to pay their wages. After a few weeks they changed down a gear or two. It is also local custom for the whole gang to stop work whenever there is a death in the village - from the day of death up until the cremation ceremony. It was a cold winter, and this custom resulted in a further hiatus. Nevertheless, the roof was up some nineteen days after the roofing was delivered.
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The construction team (Bandung United) having got the roof on, my Project Manager (otherwise known as 'She Who Must Be Obeyed') set out to order windows, doors and flooring etc.
Once upon a time I had the (mis)fortune to stay at the Udorn Thani Centara Hotel. The breakfast was greedily edible; the Lobby Lounge had a certain louche, olde-worlde charm; the in-house TV provided news in well over a dozen languages; but the bathroom floor was of shiny, black marble. Had it been a hundred or so times larger it could have hosted the Winter Olympics. It was so slippery that I had all my showers at the pool-side. My bathroom will be so unslippery that neither Suarez nor Christiano Ronaldo will be able to fall arse-over-tip should they deign to visit me.
Note well the natty, twin washing-up basins. Under normal circumstances I am required to apply for a visa in order to be granted admission to the kitchen, so please don't think that the Project Manager and Yobbo will be bonding over the Fairy liquid and the dirty dishes
Mind the doors! Mind you, there's not much one can say about doors that hasn't been said a million times before. But I do think that the three musicians were a better group than their front man was a singer.
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Is this truly the end ??
Steve
"Well, I woke up this morning and I got myself a beer.
Well, I woke up this morning and I gor myself a beer."
So why the repetition? Does it emphasise the statement, or is it an indication of insecurity?
At least the next line of the song is unequivocal.
"The future's uncertain, and the end is always near."
There is no doubt about that, is there? And this line could easily apply to a housebuild or a housebuild thread. I have been thinking that the end is always near ever since the construction team finished the work that they had been contracted to carry out, and that was more than two months ago. But there is always something more that needs to be done.
I am in Bangkok (allergic to travel during Thai public holidays) and have just been informed by my partner and Project Manager that some more dirt has been delivered in front of and behind our house.
"Let it roll, baby, roll".
Wasp, what's so bad about them, other than the ones here in LOS seem much thinner than the ones in Merika? I haven't bought mine yet, so I'm all ears.Originally Posted by Wasp
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And they scratch pretty easily. Some are shiny and some are not. I assume the shiny ones, while they look nicer, show scratches more.
Put a Cast iron enameled sink in my last house in Canada. It scratched, stained, and discoloured. Probably the reason very few are sold now, well that and the price.
A few lines on the subject of kitchen sinks. Even when I cast my mind back to the groundbreaking films of the late fifties and early sixties that were referred to as 'kitchen-sink drama', I cannot recall a ceramic kitchen sink. I am, however, familiar with enamel kitchen sinks, having had one in my previous Bangkok residence. And a bit of a bugger it was too. Scratched and permanently stained, it then started to leak and had to be replaced. It would have been replaced again were the owner not such a skinflint, 'niggardly' one could say in the hope of not being censored. I am not in the habit of donning an apron ( I have been told that I look far better in chiffon) and helping with the washing up or anything like that, and left the choice of kitchenware to my beloved Project Manager.
The two previous photographs were taken on 5th December last year, and show a building that is beginning to look a little bit like a house.
Nice thread, nice progress...
Excuse me, some joker seems to have put a cross in the middle of your roof - are you planning to preach from this sanctuary of christ?
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