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04-09-2010, 05:41 PM
Paulclem

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Originally Posted by The Atheist

I'd take a picture of Auckland at the moment and post it, but all you need to do to replicate the effect is get a blue screen with a large yellow dot in the middle.

Not a cloud over the entire country today.

Paradise, I tell ya, this place is!

I have to tell you that we have been blessed with a balmy 14-16c yesterday and today! The shorts have gone on - not to be taken off in casual mode until mid October when it starts to get a bit chilly again.

I caught the sun in the garden yesterday - mind you I catch the sun when I open the curtains of a morning - and I had to wear a jumper only once today. I've been out this evening and the cloud cover is keeping the temperature in positive numbers.

Lovely. :D
04-09-2010, 07:25 PM
soundofmusic

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Originally Posted by Paulclem

So the decorating has been delayed by a week as my better half is ill and can't go to choose the wallpaper - no, no I won't be choosing it. I could start the pinting as she's decided on the colour. Don't you dislike it when a job is hanging over you and spoiling your surfing?

Meanwhile I did sort out the porch - lick of paint. It is rather diddy though. Ah the holidays - when you can catch up on all those jobs...

Do you think the Mrs. would consider loaning you out; My kitchen hasn't been painted since the
'80s

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Originally Posted by The Atheist

Quite demonic-looking, I like that in a bloke.

Yes, it gives him character. Poor fellow, all of his acting jobs are of a gay gigelo, a gigelo robot, a bi-sexual, amoral rich kid....oh yes, he is in the new SherlockHolmes movie...
04-10-2010, 10:42 AM
Paulclem

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Originally Posted by soundofmusic

Do you think the Mrs. would consider loaning you out; My kitchen hasn't been painted since the
'80s

Yes, it gives him character. Poor fellow, all of his acting jobs are of a gay gigelo, a gigelo robot, a bi-sexual, amoral rich kid....oh yes, he is in the new SherlockHolmes movie...

Painting I can do. Painting - decorating - is just elaborate waving. Wallpapering - different kettle of fish.

!980's? What colour is it? I'm guessing pastel - Miami Vice and all. :D
04-10-2010, 03:03 PM
prendrelemick

Try wallpapering at ours! Not a single verticle surface or 90 degree corner in any room. The old house has "settled" over the last century or so. The poor chap who came to measure up for some new windows got quite flummoxed, no two openings were the same -or square- or straight.
04-10-2010, 03:05 PM
Satan

I'm sloshed beyond belief. I can't still type, which is a testament to why computer engineers can never grow out of their damned keyboards. Arghh!
04-10-2010, 03:09 PM
Paulclem

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Originally Posted by Satan

I'm sloshed beyond belief. I can't still type, which is a testament to why computer engineers can never grow out of their damned keyboards. Arghh!

Does that mean you have drunk yourself out of religious conviction, or are you just completely pissed? :D

Whatever - you're among friends.
04-10-2010, 03:13 PM
Satan

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Originally Posted by Paulclem

Does that mean you have drunk yourself out of religious conviction, or are you just completely pissed? :D

Whatever - you're among friends.

Religion? I'm out of the whole friggin' Universe at the moment, no matter what the MWI of the QM states. :P

That's so comforting, Paul. Recommend me a song. :D
04-10-2010, 03:20 PM
Paulclem

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Originally Posted by prendrelemick

Try wallpapering at ours! Not a single verticle surface or 90 degree corner in any room. The old house has "settled" over the last century or so. The poor chap who came to measure up for some new windows got quite flummoxed, no two openings were the same -or square- or straight.

We did have that problem with our lounge doorways. We got a local waster - who was quite handy when he put his mind to things - to do them for us. Unfotunately he didn't put his mind to them and went on a bender, but not before he'd demolished said door frames in a vain attempt to fit the door in.

"I only wanted you to put the bloody doors on" I plagiarised, but I ended updoing it myself. Lots of filler worked well.

When we wanted to get a new carpet for the lounge, I tried to lift it, and we found that the previous owners hd built their crap fireplace over it! Idiots. I had to cut round the hearth.

Their ineptitude was clearly only matched by my own. I discovered a new thing today - cable trunking. I'm going to keep on using it to seem DIY plausible. :D
04-10-2010, 03:23 PM
Paulclem

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Originally Posted by Satan

Religion? I'm out of the whole friggin' Universe at the moment, no matter what the MWI of the QM states. :P

That's so comforting, Paul. Recommend me a song. :D

No problem mate,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H5uWRjFsGc

For boozers
04-10-2010, 04:04 PM
Satan

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Originally Posted by Paulclem

No problem mate,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H5uWRjFsGc

For boozers

Danke! Lovin' me some http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYK7bEo1Z4M ATM.
04-11-2010, 01:11 AM
prendrelemick

Thats advanced stuff paul, using conduiting. Although I have used short lenghs of it to mark where I set my mole traps.

Whoever invented that expanding foam is a true DIY savior. Just put said ill fitting window/door frame into gap. Get the wife to hold it steady. Squirt the foam around the edges. Go and have a cup of tea. After half an hour tell her she can let go. Simples!

Ive even used it instead of plaster of paris to set a sheep's broken leg.

Sounds: If its owt like our Kitchen the origanal colour will be lost in the mists of grime.
04-11-2010, 02:58 AM
soundofmusic

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Originally Posted by Paulclem

Painting I can do. Painting - decorating - is just elaborate waving. Wallpapering - different kettle of fish.

!980's? What colour is it? I'm guessing pastel - Miami Vice and all. :D

Tell the wife to take her shortest shorts; you're moving to Miami to blot out the ugly dark colors the first Mr Sounds left behind...yes, that awful, goldy yellow in the kitchen with a bit of left over wall paper paste where the dropped ceiling used to be.
By the way; how do you get rid of 25 year old wallpaper paste?

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Originally Posted by prendrelemick

Try wallpapering at ours! Not a single verticle surface or 90 degree corner in any room. The old house has "settled" over the last century or so. The poor chap who came to measure up for some new windows got quite flummoxed, no two openings were the same -or square- or straight.

Ah, in Florida we build our houses so that marbles roll across the room; when the house settles, the surfaces become flat:smilielol5:

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Originally Posted by Satan

I'm sloshed beyond belief. I can't still type, which is a testament to why computer engineers can never grow out of their damned keyboards. Arghh!

It's the Jim Morrison influence...you're just riding on the storm, my man; pull up a chair and have a lagger with us:cheers2:

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Originally Posted by Paulclem

We did have that problem with our lounge doorways. We got a local waster - who was quite handy when he put his mind to things - to do them for us. Unfotunately he didn't put his mind to them and went on a bender, but not before he'd demolished said door frames in a vain attempt to fit the door in.

"I only wanted you to put the bloody doors on" I plagiarised, but I ended updoing it myself. Lots of filler worked well.

When we wanted to get a new carpet for the lounge, I tried to lift it, and we found that the previous owners hd built their crap fireplace over it! Idiots. I had to cut round the hearth.

Their ineptitude was clearly only matched by my own. I discovered a new thing today - cable trunking. I'm going to keep on using it to seem DIY plausible. :D

I was wondering where the roofer who took off in the middle of the job with my credit cards went... did he do your doors too:smilielol5:
Reminds me of a neighbor who "refurbishes houses". He showed me a house where he had laid ceramic tile on top of vinyl; then laid pergo wood on top of the ceramic. I said, "aren't you supposed to remove the tile". He said no one would know once he laid the floor boards. I wonder if they'll notice when they can touch the ceiling:yikes:

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Originally Posted by prendrelemick

Thats advanced stuff paul, using conduiting. Although I have used short lenghs of it to mark where I set my mole traps.

Whoever invented that expanding foam is a true DIY savior. Just put said ill fitting window/door frame into gap. Get the wife to hold it steady. Squirt the foam around the edges. Go and have a cup of tea. After half an hour tell her she can let go. Simples!

Ive even used it instead of plaster of paris to set a sheep's broken leg.

Sounds: If its owt like our Kitchen the origanal colour will be lost in the mists of grime.

Oh go, don't tell me about the foam. One of the locals told me he could fill in a small crack between my a/c and the outer wall with the stuff. He sprayed this nasty yellow slime around the unit. It hardend to look like a respiratory icu unit during an influenza outbreak:ack2:
Yes, the kitchen is starting to get that "aged, nicotine" effect they often go for to give you the rustic feel...:icon_bs:
04-11-2010, 03:00 AM
soundofmusic

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Originally Posted by Satan

Danke! Lovin' me some http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYK7bEo1Z4M ATM.

You sure they didn't dig up some old beatles recordings out of a vault?:hat:
04-11-2010, 03:08 AM
The Atheist

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Originally Posted by prendrelemick

Thats advanced stuff paul, using conduiting. Although I have used short lenghs of it to mark where I set my mole traps.

:lol:

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Originally Posted by soundofmusic

It hardend to look like a respiratory icu unit during an influenza outbreak:ack2:

Think of the marketing campaigns you could run with that!

New kitchen colours; snot, mucous, phlegm or blood-tinged sputum, madam?

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Originally Posted by soundofmusic

Yes, the kitchen is starting to get that "aged, nicotine" effect they often go for to give you the rustic feel...:icon_bs:

You can fast-track that by setting meat to boil and leaving the house for a few hours.

Remember to use respirator to enter house afterwards - it gets a little smoky. ("little smoky" meaning smoke you could cut with a knife, visibility about 3 mm)

My mum did this once - it turned nice white walls & ceiling into burnt cream in one day!
04-11-2010, 03:14 PM
Paulclem

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Originally Posted by The Atheist

:lol:

Think of the marketing campaigns you could run with that!

New kitchen colours; snot, mucous, phlegm or blood-tinged sputum, madam?

You can fast-track that by setting meat to boil and leaving the house for a few hours.

Remember to use respirator to enter house afterwards - it gets a little smoky. ("little smoky" meaning smoke you could cut with a knife, visibility about 3 mm)

My mum did this once - it turned nice white walls & ceiling into burnt cream in one day!

:lol:

My dad did the smoke thing once too - he had a little frying pan handle in there for good measure. The smoke really coughed out the lungs.