Cold Ale - The Blokes' Thread!

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Originally Posted by prendrelemick

Wow! Paul, it's shed of the year time. (BBC Breakfast)

Get your entry in and clear a space on your mantlepiece.

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Absolutely. I could enter all three and get a sympathy shed from the sponsors cuprinol. All three have got a certain savoir faire - I reckon I've got a good chance.

Speaking of sheds, I've not long ince got back from the Allotment AGM - doesn't time fly!

The same people were there, and the 5% rule - 5% of the people cause 100% of the problems came true again. I recognised the faces.

We devolved into farce again over a dispute over those who had not read the new proposed constitution. It ended with a vote on whether to hold a vote on adopting the new constitution. The vote was passed, and then there was a vote on the new constitution - which also passed. So the grumblers and disputers lost that one. In our corner I assured the gathered crew that Eric in the corner had read and agreed with it, and so our corner voted for it.

It's a fascinating process.

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Originally Posted by Paulclem

Absolutely. I could enter all three and get a sympathy shed from the sponsors cuprinol. All three have got a certain savoir faire - I reckon I've got a good chance.

Speaking of sheds, I've not long ince got back from the Allotment AGM - doesn't time fly!

The same people were there, and the 5% rule - 5% of the people cause 100% of the problems came true again. I recognised the faces.

We devolved into farce again over a dispute over those who had not read the new proposed constitution. It ended with a vote on whether to hold a vote on adopting the new constitution. The vote was passed, and then there was a vote on the new constitution - which also passed. So the grumblers and disputers lost that one. In our corner I assured the gathered crew that Eric in the corner had read and agreed with it, and so our corner voted for it.

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Or possibly David Nobbs.

Is there a more edifying sight than democracy in action?

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Originally Posted by Paulclem

I know the look, and Mark's conversation is .... recogniseable. Is it me, or is the finding of things one of the most stressful everyday occurences?

Whilst we're on a domestic tack, another thing that has begun to assail my senses are those fragrance machines that have begun to appear in plug sockets around the house. Do you have these? They squirt me every time I go past, and I have developed the paranoid notion that Mrs Paulclem has programmed them to respond to my footfall, or odour...
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hehe. Our squirt machine is named Lily.
Clay litter can only absorb so much.

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Originally Posted by Paulclem

... All three sheds are still standing, and I've dug over most of the new allotment, but the grass and weeds are now abundently growing where I have previously dug. I hope to get more stuff in next week.

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Originally Posted by prendrelemick

Wow! Paul, it's shed of the year time. (BBC Breakfast)

Get your entry in and clear a space on your mantlepiece.

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Originally Posted by Paulclem

Absolutely. I could enter all three and get a sympathy shed from the sponsors cuprinol. All three have got a certain savoir faire - I reckon I've got a good chance.

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Paul, I'm confident you would win on the merit of the sheds alone, but in order to seal the deal I would suggest attaching last year's play to the application.

BTW...I must have slept through a few posts, I wasn't aware of a third shed. I remember "Ivy League Estates" and "Post Modern Villa".

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Originally Posted by Gilliatt Gurgle

BTW...I must have slept through a few posts, I wasn't aware of a third shed. I remember "Ivy League Estates" and "Post Modern Villa".

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Here are the three sheds

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The Leaning Shed of the Allotment

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The Fallout Shelter

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Ivy Cottage

This is the shed that Fred wanted to keep using. He sits in there when he has his beer, or tea, and also when it rains - though I'm not sure it does much good in that case. I'm happy for him to use it. I am.

The pictures were taken a year or so ago - maybe more. Not much has changed with them, though I have finally fitted a bit of guttering to two of them.

Great pictures and so thoughtfully arranged, its like a progression of characterfulness. The first one is still recognisable as a standard garden shed, the next is beginning to morph into something abstract, and the last is nature reclaiming its own from the insolence of man,s creation.

I think Cuprinol could use them as a cautionary tale. - Use our product, or....

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Originally Posted by prendrelemick

Great pictures and so thoughtfully arranged, its like a progression of characterfulness. The first one is still recognisable as a standard garden shed, the next is beginning to morph into something abstract, and the last is nature reclaiming its own from the insolence of man,s creation.

I think Cuprinol could use them as a cautionary tale. - Use our product, or....

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:lol:

Yes - good for before and after photos.

Fred - my allotment neighbour who uses Ivy Cottage above - has another normal and ordinary shed, but he insists on using that one. I've no idea why, although he does have a filing cabinet of stuff in there with his tools. Perhaps they are secret files he's filched.

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Originally Posted by Paulclem

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“Villa Paulladio”

From Andrea Palladio’s “The Four Books of Architecture:

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Of Timber…


http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/a...s/IMGP2530.jpg



Of Foundations…


http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/a...s/IMGP2531.jpg


Of Furniture…

Furnishings shall compliment the design of the structure for which they serve. Plastic has become a popular choice of material in recent years. Cheap, able to be mass produced, brittle in winter, legs capable of buckling at the first attempt to lean back, plastic is the material of choice at the Villa.


Note the use of the chair as a platform to place your flask and copy of Sir Bannister Fletcher.

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Or in the case of Pauls shed. Nail on piecef of interior grade hardboard to the eavef.

We bodgers know it is a perfectly acceptable material, that co-operates with the weather rather than resists it. It is a sign that the architect was an optimist. Provided you don't push your finger through when it's wet it will last for years.

I must acquaint you chaps with the secret of the construction of this shed. It is my belief that whoever constructed this fine edifice intended it for a much more grand purpose than a mere allotment shed. I can only surmise that the original purpose was lost in events of the past. I'm sure the robust nature of the construction - as you will see, will convince you fellows of its worthiness for extraordinary duties.

I'll get some interior pictures on my next trip down - perhaps Saturday.

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Originally Posted by Gilliatt Gurgle

“Villa Paulladio”

From Andrea Palladio’s “The Four Books of Architecture:

http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/a...s/IMGP2532.jpg


Of Timber…


http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/a...s/IMGP2530.jpg



Of Foundations…


http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/a...s/IMGP2531.jpg


Of Furniture…

Furnishings shall compliment the design of the structure for which they serve. Plastic has become a popular choice of material in recent years. Cheap, able to be mass produced, brittle in winter, legs capable of buckling at the first attempt to lean back, plastic is the material of choice at the Villa.


Note the use of the chair as a platform to place your flask and copy of Sir Bannister Fletcher.

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It was very remis of Chippendale, Sheraton and Adam not to include examples of the above in their pattern books.

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Originally Posted by prendrelemick

It was very remis of Chippendale, Sheraton and Adam not to include examples of the above in their pattern books.

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haha!
I am curious to know whose furniture Paul is featuring there in his photo, perhaps a derivative of Breuer or Eames.
I wonder if Paul made it down to the allotments for the interior shots?

btw - My apologies to Mr. Fletcher, that should be one "n" in Banister.

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Originally Posted by Gilliatt Gurgle

haha!
I am curious to know whose furniture Paul is featuring there in his photo, perhaps a derivative of Breuer or Eames.
I wonder if Paul made it down to the allotments for the interior shots?

btw - My apologies to Mr. Fletcher, that should be one "n" in Banister.

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I did.

Just look at the thickness of those beams. I reckon they are railway sleepers. There are a couple more over the page. Apologies - the picture quality is not so good. The syle of chair in the picture is most likely B&Q or Wilkinsons. You probably don't have those mass outlets in Texas.

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