The Shed

GD was good years ago when it felt a little more "genuine" - not so sure any more - I get the feeling the drama is for the benefit of the camera "three months into the build and nothing's gone wrong yet, I fear he may be heading for an unforseen disaster" (quick, producer chappie - go and change that order of seasoned oak beams from metres to yards while I distract him with this cup of builder's tea)

el dingo wrote: Syzygy wrote: We exchanged contracts this week, and as of the end of this month I will be stepping belatedly onto the bottom rung of the property ladder. It hasn't been an entirely stress free experience, but from what I've read over the last couple of pages I think we've been pretty lucky so far. Bishops Stortford here we come!   Hey - congrats! I used to work there many moons ago and it was a real cool place. Close enough to (yet far enough away from) London. I used to be a sub-ed on the Stortford Gazette and we used to go to the Whore's Bed (sorry, better make that Boar's Head) and the Bakers Dozen or sometimes The Star. All good pubs about 25 yrs ago. Times change of course, but hopefully they still are. I went out with a girl from Takeley for a while - she ended up with the Daily Mail and I... well never mind! Glad it went well for you.

Syzygy wrote: el dingo wrote: Syzygy wrote: We exchanged contracts this week, and as of the end of this month I will be stepping belatedly onto the bottom rung of the property ladder. It hasn't been an entirely stress free experience, but from what I've read over the last couple of pages I think we've been pretty lucky so far. Bishops Stortford here we come!   Hey - congrats! I used to work there many moons ago and it was a real cool place. Close enough to (yet far enough away from) London. I used to be a sub-ed on the Stortford Gazette and we used to go to the Whore's Bed (sorry, better make that Boar's Head) and the Bakers Dozen or sometimes The Star. All good pubs about 25 yrs ago. Times change of course, but hopefully they still are. I went out with a girl from Takeley for a while - she ended up with the Daily Mail and I... well never mind! Glad it went well for you.   I was in Hatfield Broad Oak for a while in the early 90s (house sitting) and came to like the general area a lot.

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Sounds excellent,Rob. My Sweet Peas have gone beserk. I had to re-stake them today. They must be about 6ft tall at the moment.

I've been trying to sort out my tiny fruit-patch that due to one thing and another I have let run wild of late - the gooseberries are looking good, the raspberries have gone berserk, black currents looking worse for wear, white currents only planted this year, so nothing to look forward to as yet, the grape vine's doing okay, the wild strabs have gone, erm, wild and the brambles are brambling. I lost an apple tree the other day and the damson's don't look too good - I think I've got an infestation of some kind, hopefully not honey-fungus. I did go hunting through the nettles for my rhubarb and managed to get stung in the mouth (don't ask)

Isn't that last part also a reference to Zappa?

Angelo wrote: limeyrob wrote: The only prog of this type that I used to watch is Grand Designs. At least the people weren't in it for the [the big] money. Not bad for a Shed dweller/old geezer. Mentioning two tracks from a mid-80's Rush album as part of a serious statement.

You're dead right there. We somehow seem to have lost that anticipation of the seasons. I was in town the other day and you could buy Uruguayan Satsumas. Satsumas (and sixpences) are for Christmas.

At the moment my band has 4 guitarists, and nothing else.

Can we get this to work out?

Excellent. For the moment we have 4 guitars, no vocalist, bass, keyboard though I am going to program some drums using Guitar Pro, (I dont have a set). 

One day we'll make a recording and I'll share it with y'all. I expect it to be interesting...


Edited by JJLehto - June 14 2009 at 18:38