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Monday, 8th February 2010
Weather observations
Time - 08:30hrs
Wind speed - 23.8mph
Temperature - 0C
precipitation - Light snow
Conditions underfoot - wet
Sky - Cloud cover 100%
Sun - What sun?.
Mark is digging away with the digger despite the foul weather. We are hoping to get the Geotex down by the end of the day. We have a professional digger driver coming tomorrow to do the final grading to get the thing thoroughly flat, and ready for the shingle to go on top to complete the job.
I am expecting Alex some time this morning.
I have to admit (and it is not easy after a 1/2 lifetime working, proudly, outside in the weather) that it is too cold for me out there today. I am still in some pain as a result of yesterday's efforts. No problem, but not something I want to compound. Mark, being so much younger,I suppose, is hard at it and going great guns.
I am glad Alex is coming today, because it will probably mean that I shall havethe opportunity to make use of some brain instead of brawn. That seems more cvilised, somehow! Truth be known, it is surely the case that both sides are needed to achieve a balanced and comfortable world. We have to have both brain and brawn to live the way we would like. What worries me a little is that in England, these days, we are only employing the brains and not doing that in a very civilised or honest way. I'm on about bankers again! Stop me!
I am looking forward to listening to what Nick clegg has to say on Radio4 this morning.
Whilst I am waiting, I wonder if Mr. Clegg will talk about the incredible financial change, which is clearly on, here in England, us now. I have predicted this change for years. It came on us all of a sudden, when the bankers went bust. Our Labour Government went and bailed-out the idiots, using the taxpayers money. That's my money and yours! In doing so they have endebted your children for the rest of their lives, never mind you and I. How they dare do that, and by what moral standard they believe that to be acceptable, escapes me.
The programme has started and he is being cross-examined about child allowances for parents. Erggh!
Alex just phoned to postpone his visit till this evening.
At least Nick Clegg did seem to recognise that there has been an extremely dramtic change in world finances. WHat I wish he had said, but did not seem to, was that the change, which he has now made clear that he recognises, is extremely likely to lead to this country becoming as poor as a church mouse. I fear that people will simply not be able to afford to live in the wonderful new techno-homes which are now being built. Neither will they be able to afford not to! As for food, if we don't grow our own, we are just as likely to go without, in my view. I think we are snookered! The thing about a snooker is that, if great skill is exercised, one can bounce the cue-ball off the cushion and pot - to win. This would be a good time to practice our cue-skills ready to get ourselves out of the apple-cart. Do it people! Do it for your kids! Learn to live on a combination of brain and brawn - SKILLS is what we need!
We absolutely must learn that if we cannot afford to buy machinery (and if we have to borrow to buy it, we cannot afford it), we have to learn to do things want to be done, by hand or using much cheaper and older machines.
We've been wanting a conveyor drying machine for the t-shirts, for a long time. We bought one today. t's in need of work as it is quite broken, but Mark is pretty darned good at fixing things. We hope it can be collected next weekend.
Mark is working with Steve to get this hardcore down for the drive. They are doing very well indeed! It's 2:50pm and all is very well!
Sunday, 7th February 2010
Weather observations
Time - 09:30hrs
Wind speed - 0mph
Temperature - 3C
precipitation - mistty
Conditions underfoot - wet
Sky - Cloud cover 100%
Sun - What sun?.
Mark is digging in the digger. He has done about a quarter so far. He does work so hard!
I am supposed to be driving the dumper truck, moving the spoil. \sadly, the dumper is not actually moving apart from upping and downing the tipping thing.
Wee're going for a nice little border all round the garage and raising the oundary banks a little, where they are low.
Saturday, 6th February 2010
Weather observations
Time - 09:07hrs
Wind speed - 0mph
Temperature - 5C
precipitation - None - mist rising gently in the hollow
Conditions underfoot - Frosty
Sky - Clear and sharp
Sun - Delighted.
We have a minidigger for Mark to play with today. We are removing a little top soil, laying some crushed hardcore and then laying Geotex on that. On the Geotex will go 2" of shingle, for driving the cars to their garage and walking on. The point is that it is all flexible and permiable. Any attempt at brick-weave, tarmac or the like would fail on this soft ground. Niether would anything impermiable be any good for the land and natural drainage.
My Printed Wills are live from today. Click away at that link at the top. You can choose from either the tradtional large tri-folded kind or the modern A4 bound type; either way they are printed on the very top quality mould-made paper. Both do the same job of securing the future for your family oe friends and giving you peace of mind. Remember! You can perfectly well do it yourself. This way is just tried and tested and looks more professional. I will not give you any sort of guidance about what to leave and to whom. These wills are just here to present your wishes succinctly and clearly; in a secure format. Once done, you can put the matter aside until, if ever, you change your mind. At least there'll be no mad scrum after the funeral.
The difference between a "free" Will from your bank (even if you already have one) and this one is that, whilst one of mine will cost you a few quid now, it will cost nothing instead of a stupid proportion of your estate when you die. You know what I think of bankers! They are a very expensive profession. I just paid out as much as I ever want to pay them as a tax-payer. Why would anybody want them to have another few percent of all you ahve ever saved? Revoke your old will if the bank made it, have a new one and save thousands!
Added to the above, have Mum and Dad done theirs? Do you know? Have they ever told you where their Wills are? Do you have any responsibiltities as executor and so on. It may be worth checking if they haven't told you yet. It horrible how many people die intestate! Please don't get caught out by that problem. That's why I am doing this.
All you need to do for most simple wills is to complete the on line form and I will post you your Will, ready to sign. Then check it to make dead sure it's the way you want it. If not, I will re-write it and print it for you again, with your corrections. As soon as it's right, get it signed and the signature witnessed by two people and you're secure in the knoledge that you have done wht needs to be done.
Later
Mark has got a lot done with the digger. Unfortunately the dumper truck is not working, so I cannot move the material away to the boundaries; as was my plan. I managed 2 runs before the thing just would no longer go forward or astern; althoug it was making reversing bleeps in reverse. We have had three 7ton lorry loads of crushed hard-core delivered. We have had a bonfire burning all day, which has got rid of a load of old wood from the buildings we replaced when we erected our garage. There isw still a dead tree to burn. That is being a little more reluctant to catch fire!
Friday, 5th February 2010
Weather observations
Time - 08:1hrs
Wind speed - 8.7mph
Temperature - 5C
precipitation - Tipping it down
Conditions underfoot - Squelchy
Sky - Overcast
Sun - Back in hibernation.
Wednesday, 3rd February 2010
Weather observations
Time - 06:57hrs
Wind speed - 0mph
Temperature - 4C
precipitation - None
Conditions underfoot - Crisp
Sky - Overcast
Sun - Still a bit dozy at this time.
Dental stuff this morning for a 1/2hr or so!
Then I want to be focusing on my Will software. I am keen to help people to get their affairs in order before it is too late. I hope to go live next week. The point of this software, which has cost a small fortune and has huge on-going costs, is that it has been written by legal specialists, so that my job in the affair is just the printing. All the client has to do is to decide what they want to leave, to whom and under what conditions. I then input those intentions in a standard form and out comes the correctly worded will. Most of the cost of the will is a contribution towards the cost of the legal software, a small part is the cost of the printing and the remainder (which only applies when clients need an interview) is just to cover the time of the person taking the order.
This system can save the client a fortune and is designed to be readily accessible, so that the decision can be made and the job done before it is too late. There can be nothing worse than putting this off, for anybody of any age or any state of health! It's like betting on your own life in some ways. We were so fortunate that Irene had actually got round to writing her will and getting it signed. Without it we would still be scratching by from day to day and wondering where to live.
I would encourage clients to complete the online forms, when I publish them, and keep the cost of a single Will down to only £37.50. If you need a personal interview (in person or by telephone), I am trying to organise that, which is the cause of the delay. I am hoping that it can be kept as low as another £37.50 or even lower for telephone callers. That rather depends on the cost of trained personnel to perform the task. I have a plan! We'll see if I can get things organised on this over the next few days. What I am looking for is a trained specialist to return calls on at least one or two days a week. I have someone in mind.
Tueday, 2nd February 2010
Weather observations
Time - 09:03hrs
Wind speed - 1.1mph
Temperature - 0C
precipitation - None
Conditions underfoot - Crisp
Sky - 100% clear
Sun - Golden yellow.
I phoned TV licensing at 8am and told them to go away and not to darken my door again. They agreed so to do. I had no joy in presuading them to stop it with the threatening letters. Now let's see what we can do about DVLA's SORNs. The principle behind those is equally offensive and, sadly, is now enshrined in law!
Tueday, 2nd February 2010
Weather observations
Time - 09:37hrs
Wind speed - 5.7mph
Temperature - 4C
precipitation - Big rain drops
Conditions underfoot - Muddy puddles
Sky - 100% cloud cover
Sun - Away in Australasia.
We set another couple of columns for The Happisburgh Heckler yesterday. Mark did a 1/2 column all on his own! Brilliant stuff! That just leeves about 1 1/3rd colums still do to.
WHY ENGLAND'S ECONOMY IS STRUGGLING?
John Smith started the day early having set his alarm clock (MADE IN JAPAN) for 6 am.
While his teapot (MADE IN CHINA)
was brewing, he shaved with his electric razor (MADE IN HONG KONG)
He put on a shirt (MADE IN SRI LANKA),
designer jeans (MADE IN SINGAPORE)
and tennis shoes (MADE IN KOREA)
After cooking his breakfast in his new electric skillet (MADE IN INDIA)
he sat down with his calculator (MADE IN MEXICO)
to see how much he could spend today. After setting his watch (MADE IN TAIWAN)
to the radio (MADE IN PHILIPPINES)
he got in his car (MADE IN GERMANY)
filled it with petrol (FROM SAUDI ARABIA)
and continued his search for a well-paid job.
At the end of yet another discouraging and fruitless day, checking his Computer (made in MALAYSIA),
John decided to relax for a while. He put on his sandals (MADE IN BRAZIL),
poured himself a glass of wine (MADE IN FRANCE)
and turned on his TV (MADE IN INDONESIA),
and then wondered why he can't find a well-paid job in England
Now he's hoping his MP can ask the Prime Minister (MADE IN SCOTLAND) if he can help.
Then again, with taxes at between 50 and 90%, what chance have we got of competing with any of the above nations?
But if we don't pay tax at these rates, we will have to do without army the navey, the air force, weapons and vehicles for them and cut quangos, dob-your-neighbour-freephone-lines and other useful things.
The choice is ultimately up to the electorate! That's YOU!
Oh! I forgot! There in't a political party offerring that as an option, is there? That'll be because no-one has written to their MP asking for it. What did Benny Hill say? Oh yes! "We got our fingers out, but that didn't do the trick! So follow your true leaders, with all your might and mane, like Jenkins, Heath and Wilson and stuck 'em back again!"
It has now become clear to everybody of basic intelligence or over, that if a person turns out not to see this stuff, they are blind; if they don't understand it they are idiots; if they seek to enforce the existing path on the populous )with or without first tricking them into believing in the efficacey of the path), they are morally and financially bankrupt.
Now I ask, who will stand?
Not I, you would shoot me within the year!
Now let me be absolutely clear! I will not tollerate presumption of guilt in England. I most certainly will not tollerate threat of persecution if I do not prove my innocence! I will take any such diabolical shite like that to the highest authority - God! I am livid again and it is the TV Licencing Authority which has brought me to this level of sheer frustrated livid anger, yet again.
Hear me one last time, you useless portion of socitey! You are wrong, you have overstepped the mark and you have tested my patience one time too many! You are now the focus (with DVLA and their evil SORN) of my bitter and violent evil even if it causes me a heart attack. I defend myself against you as if it is with and for my life!
You say I have failed to respond to your previous enquiries as to why I do not currently hold a TV licence. I DO NOT NEED TO! If I did not need a pint of milk, would I phone TESCO to explain? I think not. Would I need to pop along to my local Post Office to explain why I do not need a stamp? IF COURSE NOT! Well get knotted! I will not bother to take my precious time to tell you if or why I do not need to buy a blinking TV licence!
If my local PO, General stores or even the mighty TESCOs threatened to persecute me if I did not explain my reluctance to pay for milk or stamps, how do you think I would react? I would be furious. BUT you, TV licensing, threaten to send an inspector, which you say is the 1st step towards lagal action - and you expect me to accept your threats? You know not what you expect! You can expect me to defend my property against your threats aggressively. How DARE you? I most certainly shall not explain the reason I do not need or want a TV licence to you under duress! I do not trust you with such a confidenceS
I will not willingly permit your intrusion into my property. If you try to force entry, I will defend my domain as though your representative is a thief! Are you CLEAR???? GO AWAY and do not darken my door again. AS A RESULT OF THE WORDING OF YOUR LETTER, I WILL NEVER OWN A TV, CONNECTED TO THE AIR AGAIN! You just lost another customer FOR LIFE! I do not predict the future easily, as I am no prophet, but - this is serious!
Monday, 1st February 2010
Weather observations
Time - 08:31hrs
Wind speed - 15.7mph
Temperature - 0C
precipitation - None
Conditions underfoot - Plain white, very thin snow
Sky - bright and sunny with a little cloud
Sun - Chearful, if a bit wrapped up against the cold.
The beginning of Fenruary eh? 28 days!
I'm not launching it yet, but for regular readers, you can gave a preview of what I have been doing. Please don't buy yet! www.catseyepress.co.uk/wills Having just been through the whole "executor" thing with Irene's estate, I am more certain than ever of the importance of wills. They are the easiest thing in the world to do, and very important if you want to keep your hard-earned property and cash out of the hands of those you wouldn't trust with a barge pole. An estate is a simple enough thing to manage, but the impression one get is that they can only be handled by a professional, charging a large proportion of your fortune. NOT so! I have just handled Irene's andd it has to be said that Probate was a doddle and Inheritance tax have behaved like true English gentlefolk; bless them. I have acquired all the necessary, tried and tested wording, by proper and legimimate means (ny that I mean I have paid a lot of money to professionals for it) and so it is just a matter of making a decent job of printing and security binding, from my perspective; as the wording is just a matter of putting your bequests in the right order on the form. Mark and I have always written our own wills and changed them as our cercumstances have changed. In fact I had all the necessary systems already in place. If I can help, I surely will - pardon the pun please!
Sunday, 31st January 2010
Weather observations
Time - 08:09hrs
Wind speed - 5.8mph (I really coundn't handle those foriegn units. Sorry!
Temperature - -2C
precipitation - None
Conditions underfoot - Stiff
Sky - Clear, bright and sunny
Sun - Relaxed, warm and chearful.
No doubt you will all be wondering what I have been doing for the past few days. Well! It's still a secret! I hope to let you know in a few day's time, when the project is ready to be published. Suffice to say that I have been working my little cotton socks off.
The platen and the bed of the Albion have gone off to be surface ground. The first company to whom we sent it could not do it as it is too big. They have passed it to another company local to them. I await the results of that enquiry. It will be good when the thing is dead flat and sqaure. That is the sort of thing that makes so very much difference to both quality and ease.
The old hand-rotary guillotine isnow set up and working. It is a delightful thing, nowhere near as accurate as the new one, but will work with the power down, if needs be and is full of around a hundred years of history. What's more it can deal with imperial paper sizes, which the new one cannot.
I now have 4 type racks, and some empty cases into which to diss some Gill fonts, that I have waiting for somewhere to put them. These things take a lot of time, but are well owrth-while. No! That has not been the project upon which I have been working for the past 3 or 4 days. That's still a secret.
Message to anybofy wanting to write a new web shop! You have to have some kind of account into which to pour your ill-gotten gains. Paypal is very good; being virtually the industry standard these days. It takes a few days to get verified, so for goodness sakes; get it up and running early in your project.
Saturday, 30th January 2010
Weather observations
Time - 01:59hrs
Wind speed - 3m/s
Temperature - 0C
precipitation - All over
Conditions underfoot - White
Sky - 10% overcast - 90%bright and sunny
Sun - Vwet happy and rested, after his holidays, thank you!
Friday, 29th January 2010
Weather observations
Time - 09:13hrs
Wind speed - 9.6m/s
Temperature - 3C
precipitation - rain
Conditions underfoot - Very soggy
Sky - 100% overcast
Sun - In another country
I have not made any plans other than seing Alex for today, although I have not heard wheter he is coming. I sincerely hope he turns up.
Alex did turn up and a good time was had by all. We discussed web site preparation.
It's snowing - a lot - now. 7:30pm
Thursday, 28th January 2010
Weather observations
Time - 11:13hrs
Wind speed - 7.6m/s
Temperature - 4C (but darned cold in the wind
precipitation - Very cold shards of rain
Conditions underfoot - Sqidgy
Sky - Bright but rather overcast
Sun - Popping in and out
I've got to do some tax forms today.
I have had a stream of phone calls this morning. All of those have been interesting.
I still lack sales of these delightful Ferguson tractor related t-shirts, sweatshirts and hoodies. I would love to see some of those out there in the world.
Wednesday, 27th January 2010
Weather observations
Time - 08:00hrs
Wind speed - 3.1m/s
Temperature - 0C
precipitation - Damp air
Conditions underfoot - Frozen mud. It's been -4 overnight.
Sky - Overcast
Sun - Missing
The press engineer was here most of yesterday, working on the big digital press, so I did notget my books printed. The 1st page of every book was voming our dirty. I am off to do them now.
09:00hrs
All orders printed, packaged, stamped and ready for the postman!
18:00hrs
Wind speed - 15.8m/s (over 40mph)
Temperature - 4C
precipitation - I'm not going out in the rain to find out!
Conditions underfoot - Yuk!
Sky - Black
Sun - Asleep
Tueday, 26th January 2010
Weather observations
Time - 08:11hrs
Wind speed - 1.4m/s
Temperature - 0C
precipitation - None
Conditions underfoot - Stiff mud
Sky - Bright, pale blue with a little high cloud
Sun - Rising a red/gold disc
I have some books to print today. I tried yesterday, but failed. I need to do some work on those particular publications, most of which are ones that were designed to do with expoted tractors, and I have yet to prepare them for the new press; which takes a coule of hours each, sometimes. I have a software compatability issue with one of them, which was driving me a bit scatty, yesterday.
I had a number of calls on the telephone, whih I enjoyed. I have one person who is emailing, which taks longer than phone calls. I'd rather he phoned; but then again, he aught to be talking to the registration person at FoDH on the particular subjct he is raising.
Another call I helped with was advice for somwone who is developing a board game, who needs a few to be printed. This is about balancing cost with ink wear as chips or counters are moved over the surface.
12:00 noon
Weather observations
Time - 12:00hrs
Wind speed - 2.4m/s
Temperature - 2C
precipitation - None
Conditions underfoot - Stiff mud
Sky - Bright, blue
Sun - Gorgeous
Monday, 25th January 2010
Weather observations
Time - 13:47hrs
Wind speed - 2..2m/s
Temperature - 4C
precipitation - None
Conditions underfoot - Stiff mud
Sky - Overcast
Sun - Missing
Sorry I am a bit late today. I had to go to Norwich to thwe optitians. They say my eyes are still imorving, which means they are still changing, which means we cannot do the final fine corrections yet. The waiting game.
Sunday, 24th January 2010
Weather observations
Time - 06:00hrs
Wind speed - 0m/s
Temperature - 0C
precipitation - None
Conditions underfoot - Stiff mud
Sky - Overcast
Sun - Not yet risen
Mark has pottered off to Wiltshire to collect some type. He had gone when I woke at 5am.
I was about ready to go back to sleep by 7am. I am not really ready to start the day yet and it's still dark. I am, however rather bored; but I wanted a pot of tea. Sadly, Radio 4 is not really holding my attention this morning.
11:00 a.m.
I did start the day, despite not wanting to. I have just completed the typesetting of the first of the four columns. It has left me with little 14pt Times left. Fortunately, Mark is just about to buy some more in Wilthire. He should be back by about 6 this evening. I could use 12pt, but I am not too keen on that, as I want it to be eay to read by everybody; even if their eyesight is not too hot.
One odd thing is that I've had to buy a set of @ symbols, in different sizes. They just didn't exist in a standard font. No-one ever really needed them in those days; what with there being no such thing as an email address.
Mark has just phoned and he has bought the type and is now loading. Happy days! Mark does seem to like a drive out!
Saturday, 23rd January 2010
Weather observations
Time - 09:14hrs
Wind speed - 4.3m/s N.W.
Temperature - 1C
precipitation - So misty that it feels like fine rain
Conditions underfoot - muddy
Sky - Bright but completely overcast
Sun - In hiding
This morning we are planning to attend the memorial service to Bronson Fargo. Bronson was a colonial (from the Americas) who came to the village with his family, his great pride and joy, a long time ago and who took real trouble with people. He was a real joy to see. He was genuinely interested in his friends and neighbours. Bronson invested a lot of time and effort into the lifeboat and other village affairs. The whole village loved him. He died very suddenly last weekend, in London. We pulled his leg about his colonian roots, but Bronson had earned the love and respect of the entire village, as one fo our own.
Friday, 22nd January 2010
Weather observations
Time - 09:14hrs
Wind speed - 5.1m/s S.E.
Temperature - 1C
precipitation - only slightly misty
Conditions underfoot - A little bit muddy
Sky - Bright but completely overcast
Sun - in hiding
It's an Alex day today! I enjoy sharing what I have learned of life and graphics with him; although I fear the weekly sessions are not long for this life. I really should learn from my own advise to Irene when she had students studying under her. My plan for today is to try to print the headers for The Happisburgh Heckler. Newsprint and rollers are due to arrive today at some time. I shall try to have the type set ready for that/those time/s.
I know I want to have a line drawing of an Albion as a backround device; pehaps in purple, suggesting a lack of political allegance to either red or blue, but being inclusive of both. As to them lib-dems! I dunno if they deserve any recognition, because my Liberal Democrate MP voted in favour of the smoking ban, despite admiting that I had made good points and had won the discussion on the subject. Bad Man! Maybe mix a little orange into the purple. Maybe I am too cross with the idiot MP, to do so. I accuse him of voting with party policy, in order to further his own carrer! I have no proof, but I have my suspicions! His name is Norman Lamb and he's been given responsibility for Health. With that portfolio, in the offing, it's no wonder he describes himself as an ex-smoker and votes like a fool against his long established claim that he is a defender of personal liberty!!
I finished the Potter book yestrday; thank goodness! Now I can have my time back. It is a very good book, indeed. Mark keeps telling me that we have the 1st 4 years in book format in the house, but I really don't want to loose that much time. Books have turned out to be worse than television in that respect! I suppose I might concede that I lack self-control when it comes to a good story; but I might remain in Cleopatra - in de Nile.
2:06pm
Alex just emailed to say he's not coming today. I suppose I can now begin to plan to do something for myself now!
I think I'll get on with the Happisburgh Heckler, as I was going to do it with Alex. There's a good play on the radio. I can stand and set more type, listening to that.
My old OKI just turned up following a good servicing. Thanks DTP!
Paper for the Heckler and inking rollers for the Miehle have arrived. I am not strong enough to hang the rollers. I shall have to wait for Mark to do it.
19:30hrs
The first copy of the header of the Happisburgh Heckler is printed. What fun! Maybe I'll set type for the 1st front page tomorrow.
Limbs ache
Lungs pant
Dry air
Quaff a pint!
Thursday, 21st January 2010
Weather observationa
Time - 09:17hrs
Wind speed - 2.4m/s
Temperature - 4C
precipitation - misty
Conditions underfoot - Muddy without puddles
Sky - Bright but completely overcast
Sun - in hiding
The trouble with a good book is that it takes all one's time. In that respect they are worse than TV.
Tuesday, 19th January 2010
Weather
Time - 08:12hrs
Wind speed - 0m/s
Temperature - 2C
precipitation - mistier than yesterday
Conditions underfoot - Muddy without puddles
Sky - Bright but completely overcast
Sun - in hiding
The webcam seems a failure to date. I can see myself in all 4 of our PC's. Steve cant see us and and niether can Rene. I have no idea why, so it seems to have been a waste of £18.00. If anyody can tell me that they can see a picture, I may persevere.
Later
Webcam a waste of time and money! deleted!
We've been off-line for most othe day again, today. We're on now, but 135Kbps! Redicoulas!
Monday, 18th January 2010
Weather
Time - 08:42hrs
Wind speed - 2.1m/s
Temperature - 2C
precipitation - a little misty
Conditions underfoot - Muddy without puddles
Sky - Bright but completely overcast
Sun - in hiding
Our phone line is down this morning, but BT is forwarding incoming calls to our mobile free of charge.
The phone line is up and down, for now, as far as I can tell.
You will notice that we now have a webam up. For a little while, I will leave it on for all surfers, but in due course (a day or so), I will return the rotating pictures, so that you get the webcan on 1 in 11 occassions (controlled randomly). There is, of course, a small bandwidth issue if I leave on on every page and lots of people use it.
I'm sorting type again today. You can watch the paint dry on me if you like.
Sunday, 17th January 2010
Weather
Time - 16:22hrs
Wind speed - 2.8m/s
Temperature - 4C
precipitation - none
Conditions underfoot - Muddy without puddles
Sky - Bright
Sun - Round and yellow
What I have been doing today is re-laying more type cases, ready for use. It takes hours, but wll save days of wasted effort.
Mark has been bringing stuff from Home to Roost nearly all day. Each day he does that is a day nearer to it being ready to offer to let. The only other thing he has done is to print and laminate some posters for The Hill House Inn. They have some events coming up.
Saturday, 16th January 2010
Weather
Time - 18:00hrs
Wind speed - 4.5m/s
Temperature - 4C
precipitation - Heavy rain
Conditions underfoot - Muddy with puddles
Sky - Rain cloud
Sun - No
I am thinking about the possibility of entering weather conditions on this page. Let's see how it goes. This is a good start.
The last of my letterpress printing equipment arrived today. Woopie! Thanks Mark! My next step is to sort the type, because it is quite out of sorts, and to clean it of all old ink, as well as discard any battered items. My new inking rollers for the Miehle are due next week, all being well. I have my eyes open for a number of type cases for the several new fonts I have.
I also find that I have a very good supply of Times typeface, in roman, italic, bold etc. in a full range of sizes, but no sans serif set in the same abundance of variety of sizes. It has never occurred to me before, but is something that I may perhaps need to rectify. I do have a vast selection of display sizes and faces.
Mark has printed, and is laminating, some posters for The Hill House Inn
I am still thinking about The Happisburgh Heckler. I have invited a couple of people to submit articles. nothing yet!
I have some plate material, of quite a hard type, and am considering some of a softer type and make, which I used as an apprentice. Because this material comes in huge minimum quanities, I am waiting till I find out how much I am actually going to use the Miehle. I also have to get half-tone negs down pat. So far I am not doing well in that department. My line-negs are great, but I simply seem unable to make half-tone plates yet. The professionals tell me I need an "imagesetter". That sounds like a lot on money for something I may not be using very often. The cheapest I can see, second hand is on ebay at £200 for now and the next one up is more like £1500. I'm not paying that much, for sure, as I will not be using it very often!
Thursday, 14th January 2010
I've been trying to buy some newsprint. There is a huge paper mill in Kings Lynn called, something like, Palm Paper. They wanted to know how muny tonnes I wanted. Hmmm! Then it truned out they only make it up to 45gsm. That's the weight of toilet paper and no use, really, for anything other than packaging stuffing or fire-lighting. I gave that up as a bad job. I had already tried my own paper merchant. They had it at B1 size in 45gsm and another company I use now and again had the same problem. B1 won't go under my guillotine. I finally tracted down some 80gsm Crown size at a company who make giftware. I have no idea what kind of a gift uses newsprint, but so be it! They usually sell it at Crown (20" X 30", which only our hand powered guillotine will handle, but who cares, it still works after a fashion, after 100 odd years!) in packs of 25. I said I would like a ream and they said they will get back to me with a price. It seems they may have forgotten, as they did not call back.
What would I want newsprint? I fancy printing a village broadsheet. Just now and again. Villagers can write their own aticles, so there can be no mistakes. I just fancy printing a village broadsheet. Something very old-fashioned looking! I'm a printer! I just like printing things.
I have put some little golf-ball boxes up on ebay. I think lake-balls would look better in a nice professional box. So I made some.
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You can also buy them from my web based shop or call in if you really want them that badly and don't mind waiting whilst I make them 4 you. You can watch if you like!
I've printed a Ring Bound Manuakk or Ferguson tractors, and that is ready to go to Holland, when the customer pays. Not that the money matters.
I made a book about TVO for a visitor who wanted to know all about it. \\\\\\\\\\he turned out to be a retired printer, like me and was much impressed (pardon the pun) by the Miehle. He told me of all the type the company for which he used to work, had scrapped. I don't like those stories. Non-the-less it was good to yarn with another letterpress printer.
Our local brewer came into the pub last night, on the offchance of selling a barrel of his beer, I think. He hasn't made any bitter, but he has made some that tastes like chocolate, or some-such. I do wish these brewers would just make beer that tastes like beer! I'd had enough to tell him so more than once.
Alex is coming tomorrow. I am not exactly sure what we will do. I want to wind up last week's work. Then we may talk about writing HTML without a WYSIWYG programme.
Saturday, 9th January 2010
How's your weather? Mines normal winter weather thanks. That's that dealt with then! Mark drilled and fitted my sucker bar on the Miehle today. Mark's driling and Darren's alluminium welding are both spot on! Brilliant work men!
Parcel Force didn't collect my roller stocks on Friday and no-body has contacted me, despite them having email address, phone number, and real address. That will, of course mean that I will have to wait 3 days for them before I can ask them. I'm cross about that, to tell the truth.
I'm increasingly perplexed. I have just learned that DVLA are declining to SORN our camper and declining to accept payment of road tax for it. Does that mean, bearing in mind that it is fully insured, but not on the road, that we are law-breaking? I honestly don't know. That's the trouble with SORN as a law. It presumes guilt of something and that something could be any number of things! Grrr!
NNDC keep writing to ask when we are going to knock our bungalow down or move into it. That's odd really! They have sent VOA round to see if it is habitable; and they seemed ambivolent. They said they planned to declare it OK. I have no idea why NNDC would want to ask such a wierd question. If we planned to, how could we say with any certainty when we planned to do it. That would be prophecy. I have never been a prophet or a sooth-sayer. To predict such a thing would, in my view be nothing more than a wild guess. Anyway! We have NO plans to knock it down. We have only just bought it! Odd woman! Oh! I swhould mention that FULL Coucil Tax is paid-up for both The Bungalow and Home to Roost for the whole year; so it's not that we are fiddling anyhing like that. Oh! We checked it has full residential status, with NNDC, before we bought it.
All that aside, I am not best pleased with my new £18,000 Toshiba digital printing press. It's doing it's normal work OK, but you know I am not that normal in my printing interests. I want to print a particularr job and it won't do a very good job of it. It WAS doing a good job of this particular product, now it's not. The engineer has been twice and admited that he is unable to fix it. He agrees that it is not working right, but can't do anything about it. That's odd too! Sorry! That's not any good to me. It's within a spit and a fart of being returned as "not fit for purpose"!
In fact, I am more tempted by the day to return to proper letterpress printing as the best option. I am rather tempted to try making a 4 colour see if I can still do 4 colour work. That would be a turn-up for the books; if letterpress was still better than digital, after all these years! A can' see it!
Wind turbines in the North Sea
I read in the paper today taht Crown Estates has agreed to allow the construction of some 6000 wind turbines off the east coast of the UK. Brilliant! Now let's see it happen! All we have to hope then is that the designers have done their jobs right. Already I have heard 3 people asking me how ships are supposed to navigate. My answer is that they caqn drive between them, as far as I care, if they can or they can drive round them. I really don't mind to much. I sincerely hope no-one is going to try to hold things up over such things. That's a matter for the planners. Not the public! e.g., whay would a shopkeeper in Stalham even ask the question as his first volley on the subject. Has he vaid opinion about the principle, without thinking up possible problems to shipping.
Compare a few sqaure miles of sea, given over to wind turbines to 5 nukes or having insufficient electricity for our needs and desires! No contest! It's the same as always! Choices! Make-em and pay the price with a smile on your face.
5 nukes
6000 wind turbines 5 miles off-shore
Not enough trickery to go round
I hope they don't forget tidal and wave enegy, here on the east coast. Those methods would be stunning too - and they would provide for a little diversity of supply!
Thursday, 7th January 2010
We had an interesting evening in the pub, last night, with friends. I related the fact that I had heard on the radion, a comment which said "and then we have these unregulated cowboys selling firewood". Do what? Whoever would want to regulate the sale of firewood, for heavens sake? That's something they gave up in medeval (how the heck do you spell that? and don't say T H A T ) times. But it's true!
A throw-away remark on BBC radio on Thursday, becomes the subject of a Government QUANGO on Monday, a Volutary Scheme the following month and entwined in legislation within the year. Their plan is to nibble away at small minority groups and occupations, one at a time, in such a way that one by one we all fall under their control. What's worse is that the electorate actually SUPPORT this process!
Our local pub had a phone call recently (or was it a vist? I cannot remember) from a police person who invited them to join a "volutary scheme" in which anybody who is banned from 1 pub, has their identity sent to all other pubs and, when they go and ask to be served, their identity is checked against a list and if they have been banned at one pub, they cannot get served anywhere! Hang on and think about that for just one moment please! On the surface, it sounds like a perfectly reasonable scheme to make life safer and more pleasant. After all, who wants to be drinking quietly in their local, when, in comes a stranger, who disrupts the entire place and messes the whole evening up for everybody?
But! You walk into a pub, the barman sees you, checks your appearance against a pile of photos of baddies, to check you are not on the list and then, if you pass that test asks you if he or she can help you. That would never work! No barman has the time or the interest in checking through a pile of mug-shots every time a stranger walks in So what happens? Does the entire scheme fold? Not on your Nelly! Before you know it, we all have to carry ID cards, so that your card can be pushed into a card-reader to check that you are worthy of being served before you can buy a drink. 'That's OK by me', says you. 'I haven't done anything wrong wrong! I'll clear the check.' Oh will you? Are you sure? What if a ruck broke out and you got your ID taken just because you were there? Remember, your ID has been scanned as you walk in. The descision is being taken by the barman, not a judge! He might just hit the "everyone in the bar" button. You may have gone home. Did you "log out"? Come on! This is hideous!
It's no different to me, as a printer, being asked, as I was not so long ago, to join the new met police voluntary scheme in which it would be my duty to run an ID check AND a credit check on ALL my customers, to prevent fraud! That's STUPID! and I WILL NOT do it! Now I will become a "cowboy" printer in a month or a year or some time soon. Look! If Joe Blogs comes to me and asks me to print identity cards for Peter Browne, what do you think I am going to do? Yep! I'll use my common sense! I pay policemen to deal with
Let's examine this word cowboy! Erp! It don't mean hearder of cattle, now, does it mister? If means bad person who will do anything to turn a dishonest buck and probably do the job very badly and at huge expense and probably con. every customer he can. Does that sound like me? Does that sound like you? What trade or profession are you in? If you don't join their next voluntary scheme this week, you will be a cowboy in a year or so's time. You'll be next! These people are no better than the 3rd riech or whatever thay called themselves. Be warned!
Someone has to stop these schemes! Once more there were 4 of us standing in the snow last night when we wanted a fag. Won't anybody relieve me of these petulant priests? No! I don't mean who will kill them! I mean who will tell them very clearly and consisely that what they are doing is NOT what we want and that we want them to STOP IT NOW!
I actually had a sensible person say to me, last night that she diodn't think it was OK for me to erect a wind turbine in my garden if it was just for myself, but it might be OK ifit were for the whole street! It doesn't work like that! The wind doesn't blow all the time in any one spot. The power we generate has to be piped into the grid. That way if it's winding in Wales, but not in Norfolk we get power in Norfolk too and if it's winding in Norfolk, but not in Wales, they can have power in Wales. then she told me they are ugly. OK! here's the choices. Slim bladed turbines, big, Norfolk-style fans, Nuclear, coal or gas-fired stations all within your eyesight. they said on BBC R4 yesterday that we have enough gas in stock to keep us warm for a week (eight days, sorry!) How secure is that?
Wind power
Wave power
Tidal power
Sun power - it's all the same
They can keep their nukes, as far as I'm concerned. Above all I have got used to having electricity on tap. I like it! I am prepared to and would be delighted to see turbines as well as trees on the horizon. Ugly! What a load of nonsense! What makes something ugly and something else attractive to look at? What I do know is what makes me cold and what makes me die! Choices! It's all about choices! I choose warmth and light thanks! And I quite like it when my printing presses go round and round on their own. I'm not that keen on pulling levers and peddling treadles. Does that make me selfish?.
I finally got a price for printing machine ink rollers last night. They say they will take a fortnight. Actually they take about an hour, but they just make me wait a fortnight on their pleasure. It's just their little joke to wind me up! It's taken nearly a month to find a company who will do it. Nobody has been able to get to work, what with the jollydays and the snow. OK, I give in! They got me! My only other alternative hasn't got a clue what I am on about when I say I want rollers for a letterpress printing press. "Is that litho? What type of plates are you running? What font solution are you using?" Idiots!
OK
The pain in my mouth has subsided now. I took pills! Thank goodness for pills!
Evening
I just listened to a BBC R4 programme about The Royal Society. No wonder scientists have trouble being believed or being respected. Some of those on this programme are being to patronising and talking such contradictory rubbish, that any intelligent, educated non-scientitifc person would just thing they are having to micky taken. Pull yourselves together, scientists! Drop the universtity rubbish and eletism and talk to people as though there is half a chance they might believe you WANT to communicate.
Mark's been trying to persuade me to drive a little faster in the snow. I thought I'd try it under controlled conditions, on my own. He was wrong! These new radial tyres are no better than my old cross-plies were, in snow. They don't nagically grip. If you go too fast, you turn the car round in a skid. Nothing new there then. Simple! Drive slowly and carefully folks!
I made-ready for a cutting and creasing job today with new-fangled creasing matirx. Brilliant new invention! I was still using card and applying it by hand. I must learn to keep up to date! Modern can, sometinmes be good!
I found an old friend in Hemel Hempstead today, who recovers printing machine rollers. This old business has quoted 1/2 the price and can send them back in a couple of days, unlike the other lot I found. Brilliant! I expect them to be collected by a carrier tomorrow; weather permiting. What's more, they actually knew what a Miehle, vertical is and what kind of rollers it needs.
Gas has gone up in price Surprise! Perhaps them ships will pull into port now, then. Tomorrow I will be discussing costing and estimating with Alex. Let's hope that I can share more with him in one day than college could impart in some years. There is a direct connection between what I shall be showing him, the cost of gas and proper costing. All this modern "What can I get for it" b******s is what is causing the bankrupcy of so many businesses. No-one has a clue what it is costing in the 1st place. They ASSUME they will profit if they sell as much service or product as they can and charge as much for it as they can get. They're lazy, greedy and presumptuous, intellectual self-flagulating perverts! There's a lot of it about! The more that go down, the less competition there is. I have to admit that I'd rather they were paid dole, than were left ripping people off with their self-centred and self-opinionated stupidity; taking their redundant employees and unpaid suppliers with them. Woopie!
My advice is to carefully calculate cost and think what you need to profit. Then charge the right price! Remember! There are million of competitors out there who will work for a bowl of rice a day. You have to have a genuine edge to win. Get clever, get trained, and work hard, making, mending or growing something. You will not get something for nothing for much longer! If I hear you complaining about your income tax, I will know that you are ripping someone off!
You are more than welcome to complain about indirect taxation, Government waste and about paying to fight foreign wars. Then look and see what you elected your Government to do. See what they promised, or threatened, in their manifesto. Is it your fault? Probably!
Sunday, 3rd January 2010
Nothing much happened today, or yesterday, come to that. I hope not to have to report that very often this year.
I think I have found the part I need for the Miehle. I wait expectantly. Just in case, Mark has found a local tradesman who can repair the old one. It's a silly little thing. Because there is a 1/4" of movement in a simple, plain bearing, the paper tends to fall in the wrong place by 1/4" and so it doens't get picked up in the cylinder grippers and I end up feeding a double. That results in an over-impressed sheet, now and again. As this wear has increased, the operatior has improved his accuracy in other setting, step-by-step, to overcome it. Thus the problem has not been noticed. It is a bit like wear in a car, wehereby the driver just does each little thing a bit better until the MOT comes along and a complete stranger ays "that's not right" and the car fails. That's the only eally good thing about MOT's and we don't have them on American printing presses - why should we. When I got the machine, there were a couple of old elastic bands that I felt were a bit odd. Now I understand why they were there and will buy a box, in the moring, to replace them, to cover me till the new part arrives. Now I know printing machine operators are the same the world-over! It lifts my heart! I'm saying I would have done the same thing as the old printer, who had this machine before I bought it. The difference is that I hope, but doubt, that I might have replaced or repaired the part before it got this bad.
I've finishede reading Potter nad the Pheonix. That was one very good book! Now I understand things about the story, which I had not picked up in the filmand had cross-examined Mark about, thus getting right up his nose when we were watching it together. I don't know if he had read the book, but he wasn't keen on me not understanding several subtleties that i was asking about. I must remember to read books before I watch films!
A friend has given us set containing Age of Five book 1 to I haven't counted) by Trudy Canavan. I suppose I aught to read that next. However, I do think we have a copy of the last Potter somewhere, so I will nag Mrk to find me that, because I am desperate to get to the bottom of the Potter stories before I move on. btw, nagging Mark is a bad thing. I aught to avoid it. Hmmm!
Friday, 1st January 2010
Alex and I spent the day printing and cutting golf ball boxes. I found a little fault on the Miehle, which Mark will have to fix now. It's just plain wear in a little piece of alluminium. Grmph! Thank goodness for Mark!
The trouble with getting up early the day before yesterday is that I can't seem to sleep now after 5am. Here I sits at 5:36 typing news and listenting to The Archers on the BBC web site.
I can't wait till things get back to normal. These holiday periods can drag everything out so much. Can't seem to even order a bottle of gas to run the heating. Fortuntately, we had a spare kicking around -just a small one.
Oh! That punch I waited for such a long time, that arrived in the last post I have seen, is not made of very stern stuff. It has gone to slots. the steel is nowhere near as hard as the metal i an punching. Thirty quid and ruined in 1 job. Bloiw that for a game. it will have to go back, I'm a fraid! I don't like doing that, but this is worthless to me. Not made of the righ materials for the job!
I have had 2 very kind emails this morning. Thank peoples!
Hello Graham, I was very pleased with the vinyl stickers you made for me just before Xmas, they were made very well and just as I asked, thank you.
and
Graham, Just to let you know books have arrived all ok today, very pleased with quality and content. No excuse now !!.
I love it when I get mail like that. I really do appreciate people taking the trouble to drop me a note!
Thursday, 31st December 2009
My first pleasure is to wish you all a happy new year.
A quick report on the operation today.
The staff are fantastic (They work so hard and with such care and kindness)!
The NHS is fantasic (I still wonder at the fact that it is free at the point of need)!
The new aneasthetics are fantasic (techical developements since I had the last I had are beyond belief)!
It's 16:30hrs, I'm home, had the operation and feeling great
Thank you to the N&N Hospital, the staff and the NHS itself.
Our health service is something of which to be rightly proud! Don't forget it and go easy on the critisism in my hearing. I'll defend it to my last breath.
Now for some work - actually I think I'll have the rest of the day off and pop up the pub later, for a celebratory pint with the locals. If you want to phone, in the mean time, you are more than welcome.
Don't forget! I want to see these t-shirts, sweatshirts and hoodies flyying out of the door in the New Year please. They are Great!
The print colours are bright and clear
The shirts are very high quality, with a wide variet y of colour and size from which to choose.
The designs are an inspired set, edited from Ferguson's own original photo's by Norfolk artist and photographer, Alex Grainger under my (licenced) instruction. Maybe we can see now where Henry Ford got his "any colour you like as long as it's black" line. Actually, I don't think he ever said that. Ford cars were certainly available in many colours except black. But Ferguson certainly never saw a need for coloured tractors. He said "It's what the implement will do that sells the tractor" and insisted that there be "no unecessary embelishment".
If you get your orders in, for boxes, tyvek wristbands, books or shirts, over the remaining holiday period, I will try to get them in the 1st post of the new year. I'll only get bored otherewise. Even I don't like me when I'm bored.
I'm reading Harry Potter and The Order of the Phenix in my spare time. The book really is FAR better than the film. I'm going to try to get the latest one soon, so that I can read it before the films come out.
By the Way
Credit to NCC (Norfolk County Council). I reported a couple of large potholes in our road yesterday (from their web site) and they had them filled in today. Wow!
Wednesday, 30th December 2009
It has been quite a busy day today. Alex has been over for a while, setting up to take some photos for me. Whilst he was here I had a number of telephone calls about Ferguson tractors. I have taken orders for 2 Workshop manuals and 2 Parts Manuals, which I am printing now and hope to be ready to post in the morning, on the way to hospital. All other orders have been despatched first class. If your order was prior to today and has not arrived, please give me a ring.
We also had Tony, our boiler engineer, go to Home to Roost to check over the heating system for us, in preparation for letting the place to new tennants. We are still looking for suitable tennants, so if you are that person, give me a ring.
I have prepared another design for Golf Ball Boxes, I shan't be showing that for a day or so and I am in the hospital tomorrow as I don't suppose I will be feeling up to much till late Friday, by which time I may have had second thoughts.
Tuesday, 29th December 2009
We had a little trip into Norwich today and set me up for an operation on my teeth on Thursday. I guess I won't be too talkative that day.
My chisel just turned up. Woopie! I must now go to use it.
Mark is off at work at the pub.
Evrybody else I have tried to contact is still on holiday. I don't suppose they will be back now, till well into next year.
This afternoon I have performed my magic and prepared 150 Golf Ball Boxes (3 packs) for sale. I have printed 50 in colour, 50 in monochrome and 50 plain. All that remains is to guild them if the buyer wants them printed in gold, silver, bronze or any other foil.
I am going to be interested to see which sell first. Once I know that, I will think about preparing some more. I have to say that I am really chuffed with them!
The point of these boxes is that people can play using Lake balls, whilst giving the apprearance of playing with new balls, because they come in professionally made boxes, like new balls. This is a good way, not only to save money, but also to recycle. Even the boxes are reccyclable, as they can either be used again, if treated with are, or at very least, popped into the recycle bin to make new paper or card. The board is Registered under the British and international quality standard BS EN ISO 9001-2000 and the environmental standard BS EN ISO 14001.
Monday, 28th December 2009
The so and so's are still on holliday! Urgh!
I have printed a Workshop Manual and two instruction Books this morning. All I really want is for the postman to come so that I can get on with work on the Miehle. Tomorrow i have a trip to Norwich to the hospital for a check-up before going to surgery for tooth extractions. That won't be nice! never mind. It should stop the toothache.
Alex is due this afternnon, some time early, to set up to take some photos for my web site. I look forward to the improvements.
I have the foiling press hot and ready to roll. I am trying the Golf Ball Boxes in bronze foil and then maybe I shall have a look at them in Green foil.
Sunday, 27th December 2009
Today Mark has brought me my imposing stone from home to Roost. Thanks Mark!
I have completed the make ready for the Gold Ball Boxes and run a few on the Miehle.
I have made a foiling plate for the Golf Ball Boxes and am just about to heat up the foiling press and foil a few with a logo Mark has designed.
Mark is doing soome domestic cleaning in the motorhome. He enjoys that! I have interrupted that process, and asked him to mend a fuse in the foiling press. It turns out to be a little more fiddly than that. Sorry Mark! It is my hope that I will get a couple of proofs out to make up and take a photo, all being well.
Anybody who did not get T-shirts with Ferguson tractor images for Christmas had better order a set for themselves. I warned you! There were very few bought in the run-up to Christmas, so there will be a lot of dissapointed tractor owners. You'll want to be dessed properly at the first shows in a few weeks time and no doubt there will be some social events before that, for which you will need to present well.
Here they are then!
Golf Ball Boxes
Saturday, 26th December 2009 (Boxing Day)
Mark only worked this morning, now he is home and we are working towards getting straight enough to find the things I couldn't find yesterday, whilst Mark was slaving in a hot bar. No luck so far, but we live in hope. It's creasing and perfing wheels, for the Rollem that we are looking for - in a nice little cardboard box.
The heating system in my garage is working better today. It seems that it only needs to be a few degrees above freezing (just warm enough so that there's no need for heating) for them to work.
I am still waiting for the postman to bring me the tool for which I am held-up. That is designed to cut small nicks into the cutting rule, to prevent the little boxes falling out into the press, on their way to the delivery pile. The system will not work without the little nicks and I don't want to spoil a good forme by using a chisel not designed for the task.
I have found an old sample book from 1989-1993 belonging to Catseye Press. It's good to look back on some of the old pure letterpress jobs, done mainly for local charities. I have all the samples I have taken since I took over completely in (about) 2005, at Home to Roost. I must get them up here to The Bungalow some time.
Talking of which, we are intending to let Home to Roost out some time soon. If anybody is interested, do give us a ring at the number on the header of this page.
Very large garage.
Manageable front garden, largely gravel.
Rear garden has a patio, overlooking a pond and waterfall feature with gold (and other cloroured) fish.
Within 100 feet of a delightful sandy beach
Oil fired central heating........
1ST FLOOR
1 x large cottage style bedroom
Ample walk-in cupboard space.
En-suite with twin his'n his/hers wash basins, airing cupboard, shower and loo.
GROUND FLOOR
Large living room
L-shaped kitchen
Downstairs loo
Downstairs bathroon
Utility room for washing machines, photographic dark-room or whatever
Dining room/2nd living room/sunroom/playroom
Large study/bedroom
with a little room in which we keep our clothes-driers and a freezer.
in a remote and friendly little community.
£130 per week rent - more if you would like to negotiate.
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