Jerry's renovation blog

[Marty_d]

Good negotiating Jerry!

[onetrack]

1 hour ago, Jerry_Atrick said:

She has thrown me an incentive - as soon as the house goes on the market, I can go flying again! Yippee! Booking in a medical for both CAA and CASA end of November.

Well! - there goes all the house money in quick smart time!! 😀

[facthunter]

Planes Boats and Farms.  Great ways to get rid of Money. Nev

[Jerry_Atrick]

Well, I didn't get as much done last weekend as I hoped as my back was out before I even started, but here are some photos:

 

 

12 yard skip - biggest you can get. 

 

Got a bit of junk in.

 

Heap of junk to go.. 

 

Hidden under it is a bunch of rubble

Another junk pile to go.

 

Will probably need a second skip :-(

 

Gotta fill the skip this weekend!

 

[old man emu]

8 hours ago, Jerry_Atrick said:

bunch of rubble

Oh my stars! Jerry has picked up a viral Americanism. Someone administer an OED, quickly!

[facthunter]

jerry Bin LADEN. Nev

[onetrack]

This thread has just gone into the skip bin.

[Jerry_Atrick]

Thanks, @red750

 

10 hours ago, old man emu said:

Oh my stars! Jerry has picked up a viral Americanism. Someone administer an OED, quickly!

Let me assure you, it was a momentarily lapse 😉

 

Not too much aluminum in that pile, thankfully.

 

[pmccarthy]

Aluminum?

[old man emu]

2 hours ago, Jerry_Atrick said:

Thanks, @red750

 

Let me assure you, it was a momentarily lapse 😉

 

Not too much aluminum in that pile, thankfully.

 

I see you've picked the eyes out of it.

[nomadpete]

2 hours ago, Jerry_Atrick said:

Thanks, @red750

 

Let me assure you, it was a momentarily lapse 😉

 

Not too much aluminum in that pile, thankfully.

 

Don't you mean 'Aloominum'?

[Jerry_Atrick]

They all have a loo in 'em

 

I am a bit buggered today. Problem with long office hours and age is the old body ain't (sooory @old man emu about the Amahericaaamism) what it used to be. and I have used muscles a) I haven't used for years; and b) didn't realise I still had. 

 

The skip is alomst full.. One pile is gone to the chagrin of worms and spiders, though the robins loved the pile going. The big pile of trash (sorry again, OME) is about 1/2 way done. I will fill the skip tomorrow - and yes, if there was more than one person, we may have got a little more in than I have.. though there isn't too much air in the skip). 

 

Tomorrow morning, walk the dog for his weekly 6 miler; finish filling the skip, then off to Cheltenham to look at a Honda CBF1000 which is on for next to nix to replace the car for the commute to London (which will mean no more missing the trains and waiting 1/2 hour). Yeah, I know the stator is an issue with them, but I have a cunning plan to make it last a little longer. Proper servicing!

 

Photos on Monday (your time) to show the difference. 

 

Oh forgot.. need to do the gutters, too.. F! that is a pain of a job.. 11 or so metres of carbon fibre tubing to suck the leaves from the gutters and blast the downpipes..

 

I think my next house will be in Cooper Pedy... no gutters to clean!

 

Edited 4 hours ago by Jerry_Atrick

[old man emu]

2 hours ago, Jerry_Atrick said:

ain't trash

They ai't trash. They are good words of English heritage.

 

Ain't:

Originally a contraction of am not, and considered proper as such until in early 19c. it began to be also a generic contraction of are not, is not, has not, etc. This was popularized in representations of London cockney dialect in Dickens, etc., which led to the word being banished entirely from correct English.

 

Trash:

c. 1400, "fallen leaves, brush, and twigs used as kindling;" also "things of little use or value" collectively; "waste, refuse, dross; something broken or torn to bits, tattered garment;"

[pmccarthy]

So who is a trash talking skip tracer?

[facthunter]

It's COOBER Pedy also and bloody hot. That's why some live underground. It's all mullocky heaps from Opal Mining. Nev