Hooray Hall - Adventures of a Handyman Part 2

[Johanino]

Re: Hooray Hall. Adventures of a Handyman pt2

Email the CEO

Or buy a cellar scrumpy

SC

[Pixie]

Re: Hooray Hall. Adventures of a Handyman pt2

Order online Pixie

Or try Tesco LOL

SC

How much would they charge to deliver a bottle of £3 cider

I only like pear cider anyway.

[Johanino]

Re: Hooray Hall. Adventures of a Handyman pt2

Order online Pixie

Or try Tesco LOL

SC

[Pixie]

Re: Hooray Hall. Adventures of a Handyman pt2

Thanks for that SC. Only one problem, there isn't a Sainsbury's near here

[Johanino]

Re: Hooray Hall. Adventures of a Handyman pt2

Don't worry Pixie...sainsburys now do a huge bottle of pear cider for under £3 LOL...

Little better. Just fluid on knee now though still a little tender otherwise...am back doing gentle exercise....

(like 20 min or like 15 mins cycle)

SC

[Pixie]

Re: Hooray Hall. Adventures of a Handyman pt2

I fancy a visit to your cider shed Handy!! I could manage a night out if it only cost 50p

Sorry you're feeling down

If you hadn't mentioned it, we'd never be able to tell from your posts which I love reading.

[Handyman]

Re: Hooray Hall. Adventures of a Handyman pt2

No Clever, you got it right once before, She went to the School of Cordoned Off cookery

Last week I tried some Chocolate Gateaux she had made, only a small potion mind. It had 90% cocoa and 110% rum in it. It took me 2 day's to get over it.

I bought her a sign to Hand up in the kitchen, many have eaten here. but few have died.

Next week I am changing the wording

Regards, Handy

[CleverClogs (RIP)]

Re: Hooray Hall. Adventures of a Handyman pt2

It would come as no surprise that she was asked to leave boarding School at 16 without even a CSE and then sent to Husband Hunting (Finishing) School, where she learned to boil an egg and make toast.

IFYPFY.

[Handyman]

Re: Hooray Hall. Adventures of a Handyman pt2

That's odd.

Malic acid (the principal flavour in apples) has the same effect on me.

You could say I'm a REGULAR Cider Drinker

[CleverClogs (RIP)]

Re: Hooray Hall. Adventures of a Handyman pt2

If you think that the bottoms dropping out of your world, drink a few pints of Scrump.

Then you will only feel that the Worlds dropping out of your Bottom.

That's odd.

Malic acid (the principal flavour in apples) has the same effect on me.

[Handyman]

Re: Hooray Hall. Adventures of a Handyman pt2

I buy a lottery ticket every week in the hope I will one day get lucky. Each week I look at the smaller Houses in country life and think that would do just right .

When the Lotto first started, I got all 6 numbers in one go

Sadly it was only worth £20 as there were 3 numbers on one line and 3 on the other

So not to worry, just plod on like usual, besides if everything went smoothly for me I would have nothing (interesting anyway?) to moan write about.

[IF]

Re: Hooray Hall. Adventures of a Handyman pt2

I want you to buy a lottery ticket this weekend Handy, then you, Mrs H and all your lovely animals can disappear and live happily ever after!!

[Handyman]

Re: Hooray Hall. Adventures of a Handyman pt2

Oh still a little down I'm afraid If.
Blinking Lady Hooray. She always needs to know the inns and outs of every job so she can add her two pennerth worth. Even after you have patiently explained it still doesn't sink in.

Take the fumigation of the Indian Rugs. I explained it would have to be done twice, and that you spray the underside of the rugs with a water based insecticide.

Next thing your not going to wet the rugs are you? then it was the special aerosol that you release and run from. It won't mark my antique mahogany furniture.

Does she think people are so stupid as not to read the instructions. Well OK she never does.

Her Diesel Car she has had 2 years now and she still forgets to let the glow plugs warm up before trying to start the engine.

I had to run up to the Hall at 8.30 the other evening to change channels on the TV as she had made a balls of it and couldn't get it back onto the Sky Channel.

She had the idea of super glueing all the thousands of little bits of wool back into the holes in the rug.

I got a chap out to have a look at the damage, for a couple of hundred he will re-tuft the patches so the repair is invisible.

He told me I had done everything right in treating the moth, but that his firm would have added a chemical to stop further eggs hatching.

It took me 10 minutes to explain to her that his firm wouldn't treat the rug again in with the price of repair as I had already done it and to be certain I would need to treat it again after the repair.

Sometimes I feel like giving her the tools and saying if you know so much do the bloody job yourself.

It would come as no surprise that she was asked to leave boarding School at 16 without even a CSE and then sent to Husband Hunting (Finishing) School, where she learned to cook.

Rant over. Next week she will be as different again. At the moment Son Cromwell is visiting and she does love an audience, even if it makes her look more thick than usual.

Cromwells OK, he once described her as a snob, who is only interested in how much a thing costs not in how cheaply you could buy it.

Rant Over, good to get it off my chest.

Regards, Handy

[IF]

Re: Hooray Hall. Adventures of a Handyman pt2

Love the pictures and hope the weather forecast is so wrong and May is lovely, well.........I've got fingers crossed!!

Self pity time over.
More adventures to look forward to in the morning.

Regards and Thanks, Handy

I thought it would and you always make me giggle, even when your down thanks Handy

[Handyman]

Re: Hooray Hall. Adventures of a Handyman pt2

Well we have had 2 1/2 dry days at the Hall and Spring is bursting out all over. Some of the early plant's seem to be hanging on a little longer.



Best display of primrose we have had for a couple of years, the wild ones in the woods are particularly good.

The Clematis along the Hall steps is also looking good after a hard Autumn prune.



And the Wisteria I have been training up the Old Pig Sty Wall
(Handy's Cottage) for the last 4 years, has really got going.
It's a shame the flowers are only short lived.




Now if only the weather dries up a little before all of my work over the winter vanishes in a sea of long grass and nettles.

Regards all, Handy.