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Posted: Friday, 14 September 2007

19 comments

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Oh, Fred, you're doing so well! Is the workshop a kind of prefabricated structure that you will assemble? Once you get that finished, no one will ever see you again as you'll be permanently inside. Look forward to seeing the finished result, also the conservatory and the chicks when in situ. Reading your blog makes me feel like going for a lie-down :-)

Jill from EK

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So perfect is the world of FredBlog that it never seems to rain. On Lewis. How 'strordinary....

Flying Cat from a damp green place

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Don't forget to put a high def. cam in that shop so we can see you at work, 24/7, and feel pleasurably tired from watching you toil so hard.

mjc from NM, USA

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hi Jill, Yes I bought a modular workshop so it comes in 3' section as this thing is 9' x 18' My son Chris (14) and I were going to install today, but the weather is not good winds are too high.....as to the chics I am just putting in a nesting box, Silkies cannot be to cosy otherwise they get to brudie. Honest Jill I am taking things a bit slower, backs OK but I just dont want to pull in out again. FC LOL (IT IS RAINING again), I just try to take my pics when the sun comes out, abit like the estate agents here when we bought this house all the photos showed blue skies, until we arrived it poured, sleet, rain, oh did I mention rain again.

Fred from Weather is BAD !!!

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oh no fred, you didn't fall for the pictures of blue sky's, did no one tell you it rains here more than we get sun, we have been extremely spoiled this year with the good weather we've had and it's certainly the best i've seen in four years!! Well, i can't believe another week has flown by and i still havn't made it over to see you and of course because i planned to visit this morning i have one of the kids off ill and other half has to go to a meeting so i can't leave him with his dad either. Tell me though for when i do finally get a chance, as i'm coming up the road from town towards you do i take the left road to upper aird or go up the right road a bit further up the main road. I don't drive you see so this morning i was just going to get off the bus and walk both roads until i recognize your house.( i would have found you eventually! lol )

tanith from weather is NORMAL !!! LOL

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Aren't estate agents clever...my favourite bits of estate-agent-ese include - 'deceptively spacious' 'favoured pocket' and 'inneed of some renovation/modernisation'...they have SUCH a way with language,

Flying Cat from it's raining in my heart

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Tanith, I would give it another week or so. By that time you should be able to sit in the conservatory sipping home-made wine and watching the fountains and topiary in the garden :-) Take it easy, Fred, and remember that the blue skies will come back (maybe).

Jill from EK

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And why on earth should it be raining in your heart, FC? Cheer up. Life is not so bad.

mjc from NM, USA

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I like an optimist...

Flying Cat from Cheshire Grin

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Tanith, NO dont turn off we are on the main stornoway road, just pass the Aird post office which is on the right hand turning, sorry I did not realise you were getting public transport, if it is easier Sarah and I can always pop round to you, if you wish as im always popping in to Stornoway.....either way we would love to meet you.............OH buy the way the workshops up?, just have to add the roofing felt. MJC LOL not that photo genic I would say, there must be better things to do than watching me :o)

Fred from Point

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Tanith, I have a small boat at the front of the house on the right hand side (another Project?), and the other landmark is my small Citroen white van.

Fred from Point

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Good greif Fred, at this rate we'll be turning up in droves...ness thing you know, tourists will be stopping in the road and pointing - "That there is Dell boy's van" they'll say and the Stornoway cop will have to set up traffic control to avoid jams...

Flying Cat from just popping over

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I should pretty well hope that you have a captain's seat in the front passenger section of your foreign made van, Fred. I will settle for nothing less. Anyway, I don't want to feel those potholes as you go over them.

mjc from NM, USA

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mjc, its a great van.... diesel 2ltr engine and loads of room, I lost my company car when I moved and I always had large cars, but this on does 60 miles an hour with the hand brake on !!! only joking.....Its realy paid for its self as I take all my rubbish to the skips once a week, plus I collect all the building materials, well except the ballast that is, and hey, I dont need air conditioning here?

Fred from with 3 wheeler?

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i know where you are now, thats easy enough to get to and only 5mins away on the bus. I think i'd be to ashamed for you to visit me in my un-touched for 4yrs ramshackle house LOL sold under those wonderful words as quoted by FC 'in need of some modernisation/renovation, when 70's kitchens/bathrooms and decore are back in we will be the height of fashion!! lol. I will see you soon.

tanith from point

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I think you're on a winner there with the sixties/seventies retro-chic tanith...consider yourself the height of fashion. And if you have either a champagne or avocado suite...welll! Just perjink!

Flying Cat from white and boring dual flush

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Pull it up, tear it (particularly non bearing walls) down: amazing what you find in the wreck. In southern Indiana, the workers found hard wood (oak) floors in the original 1930's (or 1940's) cottage. Should look nice after refinishing. The floors of the later section will have to be tiled. Of course, by removing several non bearing walls, the whole place becomes more airy. Wife is in charge, and she is all for renovation. It's her first (and the last, I hope), and when I suggest what she is doing is drastic, her eyes develop this rather frightening gleam "right, drastic: let's get on with it!" ...

mjc from NM, USA

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Gosh! What a woman!

Flying Cat from an admiring glance

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Great long as you dont have to travel to far....Dont worry, we still have a long way to go with our house too......it does take time and getting back to normality would be nice it just feels we are on top of each other with Holly (my daughter) in our Bedroom with us at the moment, but she loves it her comfort zone. See you soon

Fred from Point

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