 No BB meet then Cath?
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 Morning all. That bread looks good, MoS. Might have to take a trip to Booths and investigate. Otherwise, it's more stripping.
seeing as its quiet on here as everyone boogered off to the beacons here's something to cheer you up
boingey-boingey, wafty-wafty, tea, cakes, peeky-boo wafty boingey yay ......! there.... 
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How about some poyems as well Dave?
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you mean loike... "ode to a small green lump of putty I found in my armpit one midsummer morning....."
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 No BB meet then Cath? No, going climbing tomorrow and thought I ought to do something useful to my house today - although I seem to be doing this instead. Hmmm. Wow, thanks ID - my weekend is complete now. You've obviously got my heart's desire well and truly sussed. 
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I always put domestic chores off till next week.
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I always put domestic chores off till next week. I'm fighting a losing battle against a crumbling house though. One of the most recent delights is the more or less constant stream of decades old grit, soot, dust and generall roof-space crap that is coming out of the gap where the wooden cladding (not put in by me) on my kitchen ceiling meets what passes for the walls. I've decided that I need to do something about it. Stripping wallpaper is kind of counterproductive though because it the paper is actually holding the walls and ceiling in place in many of the rooms! It's all good fun.
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I'm the worlds worst when it comes to 'house stuff'. For instance, the dimmer switch broke in my living-room about 5 years ago. I use spotlights anyway, so i can't be arsed putting in a new one. I'll do it if i ever sell the place! Sounds like you have more than a broken dimmer switch to worry about though. Get a plasterer to do your ceiling.
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Sounds like you have more than a broken dimmer switch to worry about though. Get a plasterer to do your ceiling.
I will. I was hoping I would get away without paying a plasterer with this room (unlike all the others) because the damage to the walls was fairly minor and I can do small repairs easily enough. But the sagging, precarious ceiling is well beyond me. I think it's just normal really for a house of this age - it's always been bodged in the past really (mostly not by me) and when you take any of the paper off the plaster tends to come with it (sometimes quite spectacularly). I've managed to avoid taking the ceiling paper off in the dining room and living room, which was very lucky but most of the ceiling paper is/was in much less good nick upstairs so has to come off. Glad to hear that your ailments are better than they were, btw.
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Cheers Cath. I'm getting there. What i need now is a good, hard winter to enjoy! It'll make up for my non-existant summer of hill time.
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 Hello folks. The family reunion is going great. Which will mean more to some of you than the rest. <enigmatic>
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 Excellent NPC!
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 Hi JJ, so glad your reunion is going well! Nicky told me what you had told her and it sounds like your as mad as each other you and your bro! At least this week we don't have to listen to AT getting excited over the tigers embaressing another premiership side!  Lovely day today in Alty but I've got a lot to do on my website so probably sit in all day to be honest on my lappy. Worked all day yesterday.
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 Afternoon all. Back from a FANTASTIC Brecon Beacons meet Great company, great walks, wonderful weather. Only downside was coming down the last descent, I could feel a toe banging against the front of the boot, and thought 'oh, it's the last descent, I won't bother to relace my boot'. Silly me. I'll remember next time!
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 Evening. Glad the Brecon Beacons meet went well. And family reunions. And house maintenance??? Not long back from a Lakes weekend, having dumped ed back at a station... a good trip with a mix of largely unforecast weather, but we stayed dry (apart from feet!), got a bit of sunshine, and a rare, still night when we could sit outside the tents for cooking and imbibing We did a round from Longsleddale over High Street and down to Measand Beck where we found a flat, shingly pitch for the tents. Today we came back via Haweswater and Gatesgarth Pass. Apart from the top of High Street and the bit on Haweswater near Riggindale it's remarkably quiet over that way - we saw two lots of deer, about a dozen in total, as well as some very blue sheep!
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Why did you dump Ed at the station and not the dump?
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Evening all, I am back from my weekend on and around Snowdon. The weather was shocking! how did you manage to get wonderful weather Kate?
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Hello, Tim, and welcome to Bennachie!! So that's where all the bad weather went! We did wonder if it had veered north cos it looked a bit stormy in mid Wales (you can see to Plumlumon from the Brecon Beacons). Sorry. Did you get up Snowdon anyway?
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We did, it took us 2hrs from PYP up the pyg track to the top, awesome! The weather really was horrendous though! Visibility was done to about 20 meters on the top. My brothers tent failed in a big way Friday night and everything he had got very wet! Me, i was dry and warm Luckily for him his father in law lives ten minutes from Llanberis so we ducked over there last night. Right then, first mountain done! Whats next.....i wanna come and play with all you lot on your next big meet! (I like sunshine so figured going with you lot would be a safe bet)
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lol, it's not always wall-to-wall sunshine on the meets, Tim. I recall bench-warming for an entire day in the Ice Factor in Kinlochleven only a couple of months ago!!
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