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I picked some lovely purple sprouting broccoli today.
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The green mesh you can see is scaffolding mesh which we bought a couple of years ago. It's great for keeping off the leaf chompers.
That shed is built on the sound Victorian Principle of over-engineering, when things were built to last and then a bit more was added just in case. Brunel and Vitruvius would've approved.
Meanwhile Mrs P has introduced a Throw to go over the Throw on my half of the settee. I know my trousers can be a little fragrant at times, especially after mucking out the cows, but a quick squirt of fabreeze would've been more discreet.
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Prendrelemick, I'm not so sure about those sound Victorian principals.Originally Posted by prendrelemick
“God is in the details”
And the devil is in the shed.
Just look at the tenuous moment connection in the photo below. The beam end is cut at an angle thus preventing a tight flush fit and see how the nails reach out in a futile attempt to grip the air.
The beam entering to the left may as well be “skipping down the road” as my structural class professor would say.
The fact that Villa Paulladio still stands, is a testament to the composite diaphragm action of the exterior panels compensating for a moment connection performing at about 50%.
From the beast to the beauty.
Your Brocolli is looking mighty fine there!
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I think you have just named an important branch of shed architecture "The Paulladian style"
The ill fitting joint could be an abandoned attempt at a dovetail. It is true that in conventional structures the frame supports the cladding and not the other way round. perhaps what we have here is evidence of the first tottering steps towards today's Monocoque technology.
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Speaking of Victorian Principles...
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Never fancied her. Looking at her now, I think perhaps it was the weirdly long thumbs.
However, if she serves to move us on from the subject of sheds, I'm all for her.
So - women we fancied when we were teenagers.... Here we go....
Yes
No
who?
Perhaps. ( if Jane Fonda's unavailable.)
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Isn't the third one Jerry Hall?
It's got to be Kim Wilde. I think she still holds my personal record, if you know what I mean.
Parker... seriously... WHAT'S in this whisky?
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine...
Yeah. As it happens, I ended up marrying a very tall American with blonde waterfall hair and - by now - a weirdly Anglicised Yank accent. Though she doesn't have Jerry's talent for leg-wrestling.
I remember you saying you went on a road trip on motorbikes recently. How goes it?
Now there’s a couple of principals we can all set our sights on.
A brilliant way to “dovetail” into a new topic. Come to think of it I believe we’ve covered this ground a few times in the past. It feels like home to a bloke.
A few that got me in a lather during the formative years…
Barbara Eden in her role as “Jeannie”
Raquel Welch
Nichell Nichols as Lt. Uhura from Star Trek
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