{"id":3449,"date":"2019-06-30T16:05:14","date_gmt":"2019-06-30T16:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/?p=3449"},"modified":"2019-06-30T16:05:14","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T16:05:14","slug":"many-things-in-a-jumble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/?p=3449","title":{"rendered":"Many Things In A Jumble"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a pile of all the news for the last… how long has it been anyway? Seems like months…<\/p>\n

I saw a couple of fawns on the lane on the way home one evening. No mum in sight, haven’t seen them since. Hope they’re ok.<\/p>\n

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We had a caravan destruction party, invited Rich with predictable results. Nobody destroys things quite like Rich. Good to have you back, mate.<\/p>\n

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Managed to lay waste to one of them and strip the other. Everyone worked very hard and hopefully had a good time. Several people suggested I could charge for the right to come and hit things with crow bars.<\/p>\n

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Always with the fire and sausages.<\/p>\n

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And back to work. Having shoveled a ton (literally) of quicklime into buckets and wrestled it up the hill, I set about making hot mix render. I got good at it by the end. A scholarly paper will follow just as soooooon as I get around to it.<\/p>\n

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I had trouble finding much instruction on the subject when searching, so I am going to be one source of a detailed what-we-did-and-how-it-went article, at least. Thank every god and Anthony we had a cement mixer. I would have died mixing it by hand.<\/p>\n

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Here’s Rae getting at the awkward bits.<\/p>\n

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And Miki getting at the only slightly less awkward bits. The whole site was awkward, but they did a beautiful job. It all went as well as one could possibly expect right up until the last day when it all went a bit to hell.<\/p>\n

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We ran out of the good sand, ordered some more from a different supplier, it was crap, tried to remedy it with some other sand… hose exploded about 20 times… it was all a bit dire. So we sacked off the last bit and will do it when I’ve had a chance to get some more decent sand.<\/p>\n

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Anyway, reasons to be cheerful: the roses are all in glorious full bloom.<\/p>\n

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And we had a lovely visit from Julian’s brother Paul, visiting from Croatia, hopefully the first visit of many.<\/p>\n

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And the weather has been at least occasionally glorious, which Jack wastes no time in exploiting.<\/p>\n

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Nor do we. We spent Saturday morning wild swimming at the best place for wild swimming that I know in the whole world. Not telling. You’ll have to get yourself invited to come with us if you want to know.<\/p>\n

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And finally, a gratuitous plug for my other business: I Make Everything<\/a>. I made my own swimming costume after being unable to find anything that a) I liked, b) could keep my considerable assets where I wanted them and c) didn’t cost, like, \u00a3400. Go read all about it at my other blog.<\/p>\n

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