I have a blue pipe its long but somewhat lacking in girthOriginally Posted by Wasp
I have a blue pipe its long but somewhat lacking in girthOriginally Posted by Wasp
The colour is distressing .
We don't like blue around here .
Wasp
Last edited by Wasp; 26-02-2014 at 02:57 PM.
It's 8 in the morning here .
I answer the Boss at Wat BD and I move over to Skype .
Message from Missy ........
" Chikkinzz eat man nexx door .
Man no happy . "
Deep sigh . And another Issaan day starts .
Wasp
Well ............. no need to panic .
The man ' nexx door ' has not met a bizarre chikkenny death .
Turns out Missy's enormous flock of about 5 chickens have gone a wandering and eating his veggybills .
He wants Missy to build another wall to separate chikkinzz and veggybills .
At 30 000 Baht .
I suggested instead Tom Yamm Chicken for a week . He supplies the veggybills and I'll pay for the Leo .
DONE !!!
Everybody happy ...............
................ except maybe the chikkinzz .
We won't tell them .
Wasp
Last edited by Wasp; 07-03-2014 at 05:32 AM.
Her mangling of the language really is special ...... mostly because she tries too hard .
Her daughter came on SKYPE feeling very pleased with herself because she has been stuck on Game 62 in Candy Crush for over a week.
But she has just managed to do the level and she's delighted she gets to move on .
Missy : " Conregulations !! "
The heart is right at least .
Wasp
Best non-house building thread so far, Wasp! Keep it coming please. Also, consider talking Missy into having columns by the gate.
Thank you Loombucket . Very nice to know someone reads this rubbish.
I must slip in some building work soon .
Here's one for you to consider .....
Missy a couple of days ago : " No sigh . Lock in bum . " !!!
Re: Columns by the gate ...... I hope you went back ^^^^^^ and saw them already at the entrance.
Lovely gate columns with Unicorns on top !
From the Albanian Builders Book of Ideas - 1952.
Wasp
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Last edited by Wasp; 07-03-2014 at 03:51 PM.
OK .
Just in case you ( or anyone ) was trying to figure out ......... " No sigh . Lock in bum . "
Missy was trying to say :............
" I cannot cycle today because I've left the bicycle lock in the boot of the car . "
Took me maybe 3 hours and a bit to figure out !
Wasp
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It's time to enter the last part of this whole story .
If it was an 8 furlong race we've done 7 and there's only the sala , Lady Pig and the Indolent Brother to do .
The SALA ...... is a complete accident .
In the sense that we didn't know it was a sala until you all started talking about salas.
Missy......... ordered enough concrete posts for her extensions but then discovered the wonders of the Roman Kings .
Thank God she cannot read Roobarb's Thread cozz I'm sure she would want one of those messyneen things even though she has no idea what it is .
So anyway - Roman Kings enveloped existing crummy columns and she ended up with exactly 4 spare new ones .
It is exactly literally true that she told her bunch of rice-planters to " put demm over derr " as she had urgent business at Kentucky Fried Chicken in the Mall .
She meant over derr to be on the ground . Not in the ground . That's the truth of this .
But they made more work for themselves because putting them ON the ground takes 58 seconds but putting them IN the ground is an extra 3 hours work .
It's not a big problem really ............ but there are precisely 4 of these going spare so of course they remembered their geometry lessons and had a choice of a square or a rectangle . They don't know about kites fortunately .
' Rectangle ' has 9 letters whereas ' square ' has 6 so that must be simpler to do .So they went into a square formation .
Missy came back looking gorgeous with the secret chicken coating recipe smothered greasily all over her tiny lips and in her hair. She must have been fighting the damn chicken.
And this intricate construction was waiting ...............
Her instinct was to call in the mobile monks as nobody had stuck any Bahts in the bottom of the hole or anything !!!
Surely disaster must follow and sure enough my horse in the 3:10 at Chepstow refused at the 6th fence !!!
" What can i dooo ? " was her plaintive cry .
Well there's not an awful lot of options with 4 posts arranged in a square and she was aware that all this additional work had cost her an extra £4 of my money .
SO ....... " come back ann make roofy peez " .
Damn ! Didn't scan that one .
Back soon .
Wasp
Last edited by Wasp; 12-03-2014 at 06:22 AM.
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I would just leave them the way they are in that photo Wasp. In a year or two they will take on the appearance of an ancient temple ruin, or something of that sort....maybe get National Geographic to come a take a few photo's. Along with the Greco-Roman theme, you might really put the place on the tourist circuit.....
You know K .... I wasn't there and she had these 4 surplus just because she was shipping in containers of Roman Kings .
Why she didn't wrap 4 more Roman Kings around these is just a lucky escape .
Could have thrown in a ' bocca de la verita ' .
If she knew what a verita was . Or a bocca .
I think to her ears it might have sounded like swearing .
Wasp
Last edited by Wasp; 12-03-2014 at 06:27 AM.
I don't seem to have what I thought I had .
Happens to me all the time .
But it's only an unplanned sala so here's a few piccies .
I must say I do think they do some quite clever bits of work really as they spend most of their lives attending cock fights and drinking whisky .............
I mean planting rice in the noble and traditional Siamese way.
It is of course very important that you walk around on the roof ...... or that you are SEEN to be walking around on the roof looking extremely serious .
Not actually doing anything though .
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Last edited by Wasp; 12-03-2014 at 06:29 AM.
Ahh ............ now I see .
He added that little bit at the front .
Took him 25 minutes mind !
Another 18 Baht down the plughole .
Now the next bit is absolutely crucial .
You see you MUST get some quite expensive tiles for the floor and put them down now so that you can put your ladder on them and scrape the buggery out of them .
This also ensures that when you drop your hammer , screwdriver , nails and pots of paint the nice new shiny tiles are there as a safety net !!!
Wasp
Last edited by Wasp; 12-03-2014 at 06:55 AM.
I quite like these ' woody ' pictures .
Anyone know what the wood is ? Pretty solid stuff .
Not far from being done . If you have a VERY good eye you can see where on the left the beams sloping down end in a nice sharp 30° angle .
Which promptly left me bloodied as they are 5 foot 4 and I am 8 foot 2 .
Father putting in a shift there making sure the hammock still works .
This shows how desperate I am for photos ... but the sala's pretty much done and at least there's no sign of any stocky tubbies dressed in white coming to
" bless " the thing and eat all afternoon .
DAMN !!!!!
Spoke too soon .
Wasp
Last edited by Wasp; 12-03-2014 at 06:57 AM.
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She was all over the place that one !
Blessing this and blessing that ..... and eating .
Here she is keeping an eye on the banana situation .
And now back outside where the main eating took place .
I mean ' blessing ' .
Looks like she had 9 pizzas there .
A bit much really .
Wasp
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Last edited by Wasp; 12-03-2014 at 06:58 AM.
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The only clearish photo I can find to end with and still it bugs me .
Someone has left a nail in that nearest column so of course it's a race to get a plastic bag of crap onto it !
And that's the rather short SALA episode done .
There will be a clear daylight photo somewhere - so maybe a bit later .
Wasp
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Last edited by Wasp; 12-03-2014 at 06:53 AM.
Nice looking sala you have there, Wasp.
Question: why do Thai roofs have this nose-like thing at the end/apex? I saw it also in Betty's extension roof. Is it some sort of design? Thanks...
Hey !! I bother !!
I may not post a reply every day, but I am reading and enjoying the everyone's threads.
Steve
I really enjoy the construction stories a lot. The banter is great.
But I have to say you do have a gift for telling a story Wasp.
You seem to be coming to the end of this story but I hope you won't disappear.
You're just a really fun read.
Hello Steve.
When I started I just wanted to beat the lowest score of views ... which was 218 .
Wasn't looking to be a prolific ' blog writer ' .
But I found I enjoyed trying to tell a story in a different way ( by the way Thank You Brunswick ) .
And when I do ask if anyone's reading I do get a few replies saying yes .... so I'm not moaning .
But I have to get into a daft mood to write this way and it helps enormously when you know someone's going to be reading .
On the other hand ..... I read your Thread and I don't think I've ever commented !
So I'm as bad really . But I DO read your Thread . That singer really was a cutey - as you say .
It's just a bit discouraging when you write stuff and you come back 3 days later and it's still your own name there .
Wasp
Never be discouraged by not getting feedback. Once a thread has run for a while, most readers will have said whatever they have to say and don't want to keep repeating themselves. I read every post you make and enjoy the thread immensely....as do many others.Originally Posted by Wasp
I'm not getting much response these days either, but lots of people seem to be reading the thread. I don't have much to post at the moment anyway....and then Betty went and started up a bloody "Well" tread just to distract everybody from the real building threads.....
Keep whacking away...it's all good stuff.....
Thank you koman.
You're of course spot-on .
The quietness makes me lethargic ...... but , as with Steve and Loombucket , I'm as guilty because I always read your stuff too but I rarely respond .
I think that's because I'm no good at the banter which you and the mob of villains indulge in . I just tell a story .
But amongst your villains Marmite seems to have lost interest, Roobarb's not building at the moment and Betty's coming to an end .
So Dillinger pops in occasionally but it's indeed quiet .
I'm still reading .
Wasp
Last edited by Wasp; 13-03-2014 at 03:19 PM.
Wasp
Don't despair there are plenty of us reading. You sound like you're down again after coming back from the depths. I am now back in Indonesia at wrok again after 3 weeks back home in Burinam. Didn't do much work at home played some golf down at Korat. Didn't even manage to have an argument with the missus which must be a first.
Anyway you keep writing and we'll keep reading. I like your sala and as you said they can do some interesting woodwork. Do a search if you're bored and find the thread I did on building our rice barn I was impressed with how they put that together basically without nails.
Cheers
i'm still looking... and chuckling!
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