Thread: Roobarb's patch

Good stuff, The front or err back err ........ as BD said it does look blooming lovely.

Good call on putting your gas bottle behind the kitchen under cover

As for that bridge/passageway by living in the house for awhile the right answer will come.

If there is no fence the snails will never be safe it’s the way in Thailand

^ Thanks Bill.

I reckon you're right on the bridge. I'll leave it for a while and, er, cross it later as it were.

One way or another things are not looking good for the snails...

Your place looks really fantastic, love the views too. Looks too far from anyone to have too many locals travelling through! I assume some sort of fence is in the plans?

great stuff, really like the way this has come together.
you will need an army of dusters in that mezzanine area.
maids outfit. pics required. French preferably. sassas must be worn.

Well it looks like you have created your own piece of heaven. Great thread and great story. Looks wonderful from the outside, great views and homely from the inside.

Originally Posted by FatOne

Your place looks really fantastic, love the views too. Looks too far from anyone to have too many locals travelling through! I assume some sort of fence is in the plans?

Thanks FatOne. It's on the edge of a village, so there are quite a few people living within about five minutes shuffle. The thing is that the house is at the end of a road and on a little point of land that sticks out into the lake. Other than going for a swim in the lake (and there are plenty of better places to do that from than our land), the only reason that someone would enter our land is because they want something from it.

I'd guess that before long we'll wall ourselves off from the 'mainland', but I think we'll start with a small fence and gate and keep increasing the size until eventually they get the idea. The thing is for years and years snail collectors and the like have been wandering through the land so I guess it will take time for them to break their habits.

If I'm honest about it, it does seem a bit selfish to stop them when we are hardly ever there. For now, so long as they don't bother us I'm not going to bother them, and besides that they all know my in-laws and in Issan village style one favour is generally traded for another so it's not a bad thing to have several of the village folks vaguely keep an eye on the place for us too.

If we were there permanently then it would be different.

Originally Posted by splitlid

great stuff, really like the way this has come together.

Thanks Splitlid

Originally Posted by splitlid

you will need an army of dusters in that mezzanine area.

Ummm?

Originally Posted by splitlid

maids outfit. pics required. French preferably. sassas must be worn.

Ah, got it. I like your thinking

Originally Posted by Sailing into trouble

Well it looks like you have created your own piece of heaven. Great thread and great story. Looks wonderful from the outside, great views and homely from the inside.

Thanks SIT - With decent views, the offer of an escape from day-to-day city life to a place where I can be master of all I survey and the likely need for regular maintenance, the house is about as close as I could get to having a boat without having to pay to moor the thing somewhere.

... it's a poor substitute though.

Safe travels.

Looks smashing, and you've got the correct colour pump. Good job all round, I reckon.

Originally Posted by Roobarb

If I'm honest about it, it does seem a bit selfish to stop them when we are hardly ever there. For now, so long as they don't bother us I'm not going to bother them, and besides that they all know my in-laws and in Issan village style one favour is generally traded for another so it's not a bad thing to have several of the village folks vaguely keep an eye on the place for us too.

Good thinking!
It will avoid them putting you in the "they think they are better than us - they are isolating themselves from us" box.

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Looks smashing, and you've got the correct colour pump. Good job all round, I reckon.

Bugger! You don't have the correct colour pump!

The sky is falling in, the sky is falling in!

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Looks smashing, and you've got the correct colour pump. Good job all round, I reckon.

Bugger! You don't have the correct colour pump!

The sky is falling in, the sky is falling in!

No, no, no, you've got it all wrong. Betty's nicked a picture of BD's pump. They both have yellow Mitsubishis. The bastard's just trying to drag me down to his level.

Mine's a Hitachi, as white as the driven snow...

Originally Posted by Roobarb

Mine's a Hitachi

Oh dear...

Betty leave my pump alone Im compensating.

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Come on Roobs . You could have moved that bottle !

^
I thought it was a Andy Warhol pic ,

Originally Posted by Roobarb

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Looks smashing, and you've got the correct colour pump. Good job all round, I reckon.

Bugger! You don't have the correct colour pump!

The sky is falling in, the sky is falling in!

No, no, no, you've got it all wrong. Betty's nicked a picture of BD's pump. They both have yellow Mitsubishis. The bastard's just trying to drag me down to his level.

Mine's a Hitachi, as white as the driven snow...

I shall dispatch an immediate red to the swine.

Originally Posted by Wasp

This is the only thing that I dislike in this terrific build .

That staircase .

Because it dominates that floor area .

So what would I do ? Well Roobs ..... I'd try to attach hinges at the top and raise it out of the way when it's not needed .

But it's a lovely lovely house . The view I've come to love most is that view from the ground floor terrace . It's a little bit staggering.
It looks like A Carnival Cruise ship is going to hove into view at some time soon.

Just all lovely Roobs .


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I agree. I would have the stars (not those ones though) over to the left hand side, so they don't take up all that space.

Why does that ladder or Roobarb's remind me of the Navy days of my youth ?







However, I have seen the following pic, and other variations, before and it would be an interesting alternative, although it would blow the mind of a Thai carpenter. Be careful, you're not drunk and start off on the wrong foot...



The house is looking grand, Roobarb !! Congrats !!

Steve

Originally Posted by bankao dreamer

Betty leave my pump alone Im compensating.

Mine is very small, so you're doing better than me... Presumably, your pump has to also manage the manpool, so it makes sense to go with the extra size, and it is a beautiful colour!

The whole thing looks bloody amazing Roobarb! I am well impressed with those upper windows. Jealous even.

Roobarb ........ I don't quite understand your words .

When you say .... : It transpires that my India days are now a little less numbered than I'd thought.

That can mean your days are not so numbered now so you are staying there longer .
Or it can mean the number is lower ... so you are staying less .

Are you staying longer or less ?

And when you talk about comparing builds .... funnily enough I bracket yours with splitlid's .
100% different builds in style but both of them I think are very " man " builds .

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