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09 Aug 2025 16:04 #1 by THE BLACKBIRD
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Started a new project in the week to test my heart, muscles and mind over mater
 
 
 
It started out as a soak away for a rainwater downpipe from the extension roof but iv decided to make it into water storage instead, so ill be putting a 1000 lt tank in there, just got to go a little deeper
This has been this mornings job concreting the parking area in front of the house 
You always get one
 
Still breathing 
 
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09 Aug 2025 19:49 #2 by Eric
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Can't tell - cat or dog? Mix up a little more rather wet, and coloured, then work it in to the footprints - make it look deliberate!

if you are calm and collected when all about you are going berserk - you've missed something important!
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10 Aug 2025 09:22 #3 by THE BLACKBIRD
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On the first picture you can see a cat looking at my window
It dont mater as im tarmacking the parking area and the drive next to it
Just pleased to have got that concreting job done at last, one of the hardest jobs left to do apart from barrowing all the soil im digging out of the hole in the back lawn to thee front of the house into a skip
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10 Aug 2025 10:10 #4 by Flytilbroke
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Extremely hardy, but kind of crazy. 

Have a nice Day, unless I don't like you.
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10 Aug 2025 10:30 #5 by Klipkopwildlife
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I'm a lazy person, it makes me tired just to look at the pictures and all the work therein.

Do it now, you may never get another chance
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14 Aug 2025 10:33 #6 by THE BLACKBIRD
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No work today as i have to go to the hospital to have a camera pushed into my willy and up to the bladder to have a look at a growth in there 
Sounds fun 
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14 Aug 2025 14:08 #7 by Klipkopwildlife
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Do it now, you may never get another chance

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14 Aug 2025 16:33 #8 by Eric
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if you are calm and collected when all about you are going berserk - you've missed something important!
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15 Aug 2025 01:09 #9 by THE BLACKBIRD
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Well i went and was put in a gown and waited, and waited and waited, eventually they came for me and two ladies got to work, then a guy came and told me he will be doing the camera work, must say it was not to bad, not as bad as the vasectomy i had in the late 60s it was horrendous
Anyway they Found NOTHING   the ultra sound scan they did on me a few weeks ago said there was a growth in the bladder and that was causing the discomfort i am having
Good job i dont worry about anything, if it had been my daughter in law or someone that did get worried and they had told her she had a growth she would have been unliveable with
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15 Aug 2025 07:11 #10 by Eric
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Perhaps it was camera-shy, and went and hid somewhere else?  

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20 Sep 2025 13:30 - 20 Sep 2025 13:32 #11 by THE BLACKBIRD
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The jobs all done now and the expensive hole is finished
These are the plastic frames that had to go in the hole, we used to use building rubble or stone
 
All wrapped up in the proper membrane to allow water to soak away, mind its in clay soil lol
 
All piped up from the building and covered over with the grass sod laid back in
 
Probably be spring time before anything else is done as its to cold for my body now
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07 Oct 2025 14:11 #12 by jon.in.swansea
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Seemed a good place to give a one photo reason as to my not being active in aeromodellers recently....

My day job....Planning, sketching, laying out kitchen units based on three different sources, getting bids from four builders
and then one says - 'can we start next week?'.  

And I say only if I can get stuck into the disassembly for a cut off the price.  I did an initial removal is cabinet doors, panels and
skirting boards before they arrived. And photo is after they have worked for four hours....

 
 
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07 Oct 2025 16:25 #13 by THE BLACKBIRD
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What a bloody mess, thats disgusting, i used to strip out and fit 3 kitchens a week including the plumbing and all the electrics on my own working 12 hours a day, two for a company in the week and one on a weekend for cash in the pocket and one of the most used tools was my sweeping brush and of course shovel
And they, so i suppose there is more than one and thats all they have done after 4 hours and you took the units out 
When i had my own showroom and company i had 4 kitchen fitting teams and 3 bathroom fitting teams and if i had ever found one of our jobs looking like that they would have been gone
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07 Oct 2025 17:14 #14 by Eric
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Looks like a cowboy or gyppo job!

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07 Oct 2025 17:46 #15 by Klipkopwildlife
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Well, it is Wales.

Do it now, you may never get another chance
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