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jaceyI 've been too busy to post much, but I had a good couple of days I...
1) Managed to finish the second piece of writing for Milford and post it off
2) Checked and printed all the pieces I need to read for Milford
3) Paid the outstanding bills and actually remembered to stick stamps on the envelopes and put them in the postbox
4) Got my new Epson V200 scanner connected and working
5) Caught up on some vital work stuff that won't wait until after Milford
6) Scanned some old family photos for a friend.
And before that, on Saturday and Sunday I was part of the crew that tore the inside out of Birdsedge Village Hall (ready for the rebuild that starts in October)... and I mean tore the inside out of it. We attacked it wioth crowbars and sledgehammers and ripped off wallboards, cupboards, door frames, windowsills and, by default, a lot of Victorian lime plaster. Okay, so mostly I wielded the kettle and teapot and not the sledgehammer, but to each her own. Despite calls to the whole village for helpers we ended up with three men (only one under 50) and three women, two with bad backs (inc. me) and the other who only stayed for two hours. But an amazing amount of grot, rubble, rotten timber, plaster and wallboard was ripped out, cleared away and carted off to the local tip. In the process we unearthed a window that was probably boarded over almost a hundred years ago (still with some broken glass in the windowframe) and disproved a theory (mine unfortunately) of where one of the original walls had been before the building was converted from houses to school in 1870 (long before it was a village hall). There was quite a lot of archaeology buried in there, including some original dark green victorian paintwork and some 1920s lincrusta. Doing the tear down ourselves has saved us about £3,500 on the rebuild costs. This weekend we ripped out the main hall and the smaller meeting room. next weekend it's the kitchen and loos but oh-dear-what-a-shame... I'm at Milford.
1) Managed to finish the second piece of writing for Milford and post it off
2) Checked and printed all the pieces I need to read for Milford
3) Paid the outstanding bills and actually remembered to stick stamps on the envelopes and put them in the postbox
4) Got my new Epson V200 scanner connected and working
5) Caught up on some vital work stuff that won't wait until after Milford
6) Scanned some old family photos for a friend.
And before that, on Saturday and Sunday I was part of the crew that tore the inside out of Birdsedge Village Hall (ready for the rebuild that starts in October)... and I mean tore the inside out of it. We attacked it wioth crowbars and sledgehammers and ripped off wallboards, cupboards, door frames, windowsills and, by default, a lot of Victorian lime plaster. Okay, so mostly I wielded the kettle and teapot and not the sledgehammer, but to each her own. Despite calls to the whole village for helpers we ended up with three men (only one under 50) and three women, two with bad backs (inc. me) and the other who only stayed for two hours. But an amazing amount of grot, rubble, rotten timber, plaster and wallboard was ripped out, cleared away and carted off to the local tip. In the process we unearthed a window that was probably boarded over almost a hundred years ago (still with some broken glass in the windowframe) and disproved a theory (mine unfortunately) of where one of the original walls had been before the building was converted from houses to school in 1870 (long before it was a village hall). There was quite a lot of archaeology buried in there, including some original dark green victorian paintwork and some 1920s lincrusta. Doing the tear down ourselves has saved us about £3,500 on the rebuild costs. This weekend we ripped out the main hall and the smaller meeting room. next weekend it's the kitchen and loos but oh-dear-what-a-shame... I'm at Milford.
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Date: Sep. 23rd, 2008 08:49 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: Sep. 23rd, 2008 08:50 pm (UTC)My first house still had lincrusta on the walls in the smallest bedroom. I wish I'd kept it, now.
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Date: Sep. 24th, 2008 12:16 pm (UTC)The one in my little spare room once-upon-a-time was similar to the Gothic one, but I think they cut it down and put it on upside down. The swirly bit was at the top. It was painted a really luscious dark red. My twenty-three year old self didn't like it, though - thought it was old-fashioned and too dark! Consequently she (I refuse to take responsibility for this horror) covered it with a very wishy-washy novamura.
She also tore off all of the 1950s black and white tiles in the bathroom so that she could put novamura in there, too. The shame of it!
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