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[Handyman]

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Well its lovely to have you back and hope decorating is going ok too

Hi If, well at the moment it feels like the decorating is going backwards. I spent all day trying to fix the porch roof. I stripped all the tiles off and I still cant see where the rain is getting in. There's a story behind the roof, I would have just put a single roof on, but lady Hooray thought it wasn't pretty enough so it had to have 3 sides. Anyway I will have to cement the ridge tiles back on tomorrow and hope for the best. I hope it works because a lot of work went into finishing the inside back in March. I built the porch with all the left over materials and reclaimed windows left over from the new extension to the Hall.

Problem was every time I got into making progress the Old Lord used to pull me off onto another job. What should have taken 2 weeks took 2 years.

Still I will get it finished some day.

Handy I'm officially tippily piddily drunk

I feel like my eyes are popping out my head and I'm about to fall over...

How did I get drunk? (I can barely type LOL)....one pint of Bulmers pear stuff from Mr. S for £1.50 just now....

When booze is this cheap who needs enemies?

I didn't tell you about the 30 mins to get the cap off...the one year I DON'T get a bottle opener from freshers (cos I never use 'em)....

LOL

tiddily piddily drunk

first time in about 5 year min

Off to bed now

SC

If that's all it takes to get you tiddly, then your the type of date I always wanted but never got.

Most of the women I know could drink me under the table.

Still that's the advantage of age, I reach contentment before capacity these days.

Happy Hangover. Regards, Handy

[Angelic]

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Apparently, this was the view from the top of Cairngorm Mountain yesterday...hopefully the snow will stay up there for a while yet!!

[Handyman]

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Apparently, this was the view from the top of Cairngorm Mountain yesterday...hopefully the snow will stay up there for a while yet!!

OOOOO Brrrrr, I remember it well. I used to love the old Ptarmigan restaurant before they built the funicular railway. What a boring and not to mention expensive way to get to the top.

Mind you they used to do a great Hot Chocolate with Brandy and Marshmallows

Normally at this time of year the icicles begin to form on the mast of the remote weather station on the Summit Cairn.



Oh memories, how I miss those Mountain Days.
I used to be Windswept and Interesting then.

Regards all, Handy

[swanfan]

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Apparently, this was the view from the top of Cairngorm Mountain yesterday...hopefully the snow will stay up there for a while yet!!

There's talk of an Indian summer down here next week& lasting in2 October.

I won't mention it much if it's snowing/raining up north.

[Handyman]

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Well I got to the Airport 2 hours early to collect Lady Hooray and her friends. The time she gave me was the time the flight set off, not the time it got in at.

Bl***y airport car parking charges, £1.00 for 20 mins and £5.00 for an hour £12.00 for 2 hours. At least Dick Turpin had the honesty to wear a mask when he robbed travellers.

On the way back the main road was blocked by an accident that took me over an hour to detour round.

Exiting Day eh

Anyway up to now things don't seem too bad although I could have used my time better.

I still have pictures to post as promised last week. I have promised myself the energy to make inroads into the decorating at the weekend. If I don't manage to do things as promised it doesn't mean I have forgot about them or changed my mind, it just means time hasn't been on my side.

I have been hoping to get another hot political thread started, there's lots in the news that's got me riled up of late. I'm sure I'm not the only one? But I have resisted the urge to comment until I'm firing on all cylinders again. I kid you not Handy is starting to feel his age at the moment. It's getting so it takes me all night to do what I used to do all night.

Regards to all for now, Handy.

[IF]

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Hello Handy, hope your ok my matey??

[Handyman]

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Hi all, Handy's still here. Just very busy at the moment. Last night I reached exhaustion point. I was trying to watch the documentary on Gaddafi and the IRA and fell asleep in the chair.

To be honest not much of excitement going on at the moment. Even Lady H's terriers are behaving, they haven't chewed through any cables or bit anyone for weeks.

I will look in later this evening, providing I have finished grouting the bathroom.

Did I ever mention I would rather have my piles fixed without anaesthetic than grout tiles.

Regards for now, Handy

[Handyman]

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Hi all, back tonight as promised.

Thursday and Friday were hellish as I spent 2 full days stripping and replacing my leaking porch roof. It's not a big roof or high but there isn't a lot of room to work once you get up there.



I had a Hot Steamy Sunday No not like that,(I Wish).

I steam cleaned the shower room. Those Polti Steam machines are great for cleaning tiles and old grout.

Then I painted the ceiling and wood work. I was going to grout some of the tiles this evening but I found part of the shower floor has rotted (explains the bad smell we have had for a while).

So Tomorrow its some woodwork and tiling before I can move on.

I also managed to get half the kitchen ceiling and one of the walls done. It took longer to take Mrs Handy's pots off the dresser and wash them before putting them back.



What do you think of my dresser, I made it a couple of years ago from wood I pulled out of the skip when the extension was being built up at the Hall.

The base is part of an old fitted wardrobe and the top is made from a couple of old doors.

Some of the pottery is genuine (others are reproduction)

Apart from one item everything comes from car boots or charity shops. The oldest piece (Gravy Boat) is @ 1825 and cost coppers.

Well that's it for now, you can see why I haven't been around as much. Bear with me another weeks or 2 and I will have most of it done then I can get back to writing my memoirs.

Not that anyone's really interested, but it keeps me out of trouble (Yeh Right )

Regards all, Handy

[IF]

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Nice to see you back Handy and got my fingers crossed all goes well

[Johanino]

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wondered what happened to you on MSE Handy

Anyhow meds change going well - apart from the lack of sleep - only 6 hours last night. I was saved by xtra factor till 11pm LOL

Psychotic and paranoid on Monday. Dr c. just said it was my mind playing tricks on me (his usual line) and that I was 'unwell'...

Charming...I don't think he realised I missed my depot shot last monday... LOL

And as for the medical student - tee hee - I spent 5 minutes telling her the politics of baking rofl...Forget the history.....She needs to bake

Dr. C was spared the doggie choc drops..

Best misquote of the day was a manager when I offered to spray him with all my perfume saying 'I'd rather been a smelly man'...

You said it Mr. D

SC

[Handyman]

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Well it's the weekend and the start of another month. I cant get over this weather, not complaining but it's not right for this time of year.

Some of the plants and shrubs in the gardens are coming into bloom for the second time this year, if the weather changes suddenly it will hit them hard.

Lady Hooray came back from the local nursery yesterday with a car full of grit and rock salt, just in case.

I am expecting my first load of logs for the winter to arrive this morning. The log pile shrinks quickly when we start to use the log burner. The price this year is £120 per load. Last winter it cost @ £450 to heat the cottage over the winter. I get worried when I think what it will cost this year.

Anyway time to get started, if anyone wonders what exciting adventures Handy will be having today, the clue is it involves a paintbrush and a large packet of Polyfilla

I will be back this evening with a new story for you. In the next couple of months we have an interesting event happening here at the Hall.

Regards for now, Handy

[Johanino]

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Och what what? Pray do tell....like now Handy

Feeling pretty pants with the meds change

Have nausea with it and some anxiety and whilst it's better today last night was the last night on the old drugs....

So not optimistic about tomorrow

Could be a derriere up day

Anyhow that's worrying about the cost of logs...really worrying...

Just so hot in the house right now

Wonder who downstairs has the heating on already :

SC

[Handyman]

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Well back as promised, I hope I manage to get this post in because my Lappy seems to have picked up a cold from somewhere. I have tired several times to post this evening only for the thing to freeze and the web die on me.

So Here goes. Remember the picture I was on about a weeks or so ago, the one we bought for a song at a local antiques fair, that is too big for any of the walls in our cottage Well here it is




It's 44 X 33 inches. I think it will have to go to the local auction and I will take my chance in getting the cost back, shouldn't be difficult as I only gave £40.00 for it.

Anyway I don't know what the folks on here think about Hunting. I know we once talked about Foxes and the problems they cause.

Well here's Handy's take on Huntin.

I love Foxes when they don't cause a nuisance, I like to see the Hounds and Horses working together, I like to see the pageantry of the Hunt. I don't like the Hoorays that get involved and I don't like any unnecessary suffering of the Quarry. If a fox has to be culled I prefer it to be hunted and given a fair chance of escape than to be poisoned
or Shot(some of the keepers I have known are lousy shots when it comes to the crunch).

A few days ago our local MOFH (Master of Fox Hounds) called in to see Lady Hooray. We are to host the Hunt Breakfast, and set the Hunt off from the Hall.

Now our Master of Foxes, happens to be a Mistress (Lady Hunter), Well it's something about those tight Polo shirts, Jodhpurs, Boots and Riding Crops that has appealed to me ever since I read Jilly Cooper's The Riders.

Though nothing more exciting than being given a brush and shovel in the stables and told to clean up has ever happened to yours truly.

So on the day Handy has to be in Tweeds, Plus 4's and flat cap, Mrs Handy in Black dress white apron as we are handing out the food and Stirrup cups (they are all pished before the set off). Then I have to collect all the Sh1t for Lady Hoorays rose bushes.

What was it Oscar Wilde said about the Unspeakable in Pursuit of the Uneatable.

I wonder if I can kidnap one of the hounds. At the last meet one of them ran into the yard and hovered a complete cake off the breakfast table It knew the whipper in would give it a rollicking so it doubled back and cleared a tray of sausage rolls.

Photo's will follow.

Regards for now, Handy

[Angelic]

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That's a nice painting Handy!

Hope the missus isn't wearing you out too much...with all the decorating I mean!!

[Handyman]

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Hi Angelic, Mrs Handy is Oop North at the moment seeing Grand Kiddlies. That means I can get on twice as fast because I can eat, rest and work when I want to. I can do my drilling then Emmerdale and Corrie is on without getting told off.

So the Target this week is complete the kitchen and shower room, Do the Landing and Bathroom and make a start on one of the Bedrooms.

And no one to nag me I'm spending too much time in the interwobble.

Regards, Handy