Wondering around a chemical factory
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Originally uploaded by eddiebrown.
Yes, I am chuffed to have (almost) finished the patio. I need to hire a block splitter and fill in the holes that require half bricks (about 30 of them)
And yes, it was almost dark last night by the time I finished. Next mission is to sort out a lawn, have dug out most of the builders junk from where it will be, just need to dig out some more, then its putting in nicer soil ready for the turf….
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Originally uploaded by eddiebrown.
With any luck, I’ll get the patio finished tonight. I think there are about 3 hours of work left to do…. Its a lot easier once the sand bed has been prepared (and even easier if someone else keeps supplying me with bricks, its getting up, fetching bricks and getting going again that takes time.)
Bank Holiday weekend will be spent excavating the remaining crap from under where the lawn should be, then putting down the better (and de stoned) topsoil, and finally a lawn on top. nice.
Well, that’s the plan.
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Originally uploaded by eddiebrown.
And all she was trying to do was sleep in the sun. These photos were supposed to be documenting me building a patio. The photographer was more interested in the cat. Good job i don’t have to pay for film….
Apr 182007
This is a test post from 
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The Patio has now over run. The main problem has been excevating the hole. The first spade depth was easy enough, but below that has been hard going. Guess I now know how much topsoil the builders added. and as for the rubble layer…..
The pickaxes borrowed from my neighbour have been most useful.
Then there was loads of faff about putting in edging boards, and working around fence posts. The builders put in fences using a hole, the post and Postfix, rather than using Fence Post Spikes which my dad has always done… the result is having to deal with concrete blobs which are both essential to keeping the fence up, and almost in mid air by the time i have dug out surrounding soil.
And now I discover I should have got 2 (bulk) bags of sand in the first place….
Still, the good news is that I have now managed to get about 25% of the bricks down. now we are really having to wait for the extra sand to finish the job. I guess my evenings next week will be quite busy.
This weekend, I can always start moving soil around the garden, and bagging the grotty subsoil ready for taking to the tip.
Then we can start on the lawn….
Apr 142007
Meow, and Wow, look at all these piles of mud in the garden. The actual garden surface was getting a bit hard to dig into, but now Ed has been digging his big hole (though I cannot see what for, he hasn’t done anything in it yet) this means there is mud i can dig my holes in.
And then I can sit on the wall at the end in the sun.
Bliss.
Apr 132007
Photo reactive glasses might not be so good in the dark, according to part of the MAIB report into the loss of the yacht Ouzo.
The lookout?s photochromic glasses were sent to University College London?s Institute of Ophthalmology to assess whether they might have had an adverse effect upon his night vision.
The glasses were examined and a report was prepared (Annex 1), which concluded that the optical transmission of the lenses was no more than 80% efficient and, taking into account all of the other known factors, was probably less at the time of the accident. This compares to 94.7% and 99.4% optical transmittance of ordinary uncoated and coated lenses, respectively. This was a startling result as the consequences of such a reduction in night vision had not been fully appreciated by opticians and ophthalmologists before the investigation of this accident.
That is quite a surprise to me, though i do not wear photo reactive glasses all that much, they tend to take quite a while before i feel comfortable outside, or go amazingly dark on overcast days…. I guess its another example of using the correct tool for the job, i.e. sunglasses for bright sunshine, and normal glasses for the rest of the time.
Apr 132007
Having stopped trying to write my own website software, I think it is coming to the time when a couple of decisions need to be made about my website…
1) Time to move to WordPress 2.1 or whatever, and then find a bunch of compatible plugins. I do not need all the plugins I already have installed, and as I have gone along, i have found easier ways of achieving what I want, so it shouldn’t be too much pain.
2) Time to ditch my gallery too I think. A Pro account with Flicker seems to be ever so cheap, for effectively unlimited bandwidth and hosting. It should then allow me to use it as a last resort back up of all my photos too…..
Unless any of you out there can give me some very good reasons why not to that is.
Wondering how often the RSS updates
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