Monday, July 11, 2011
What price the new extension?
Thought to pop into Wickes this morning to see if they had anything suitable for measuring the water that goes in my bread, which they didn't. But they were offering plastic sheets which could be used as tarpaulins. Cheap blues ones for domestic use or dear green ones for the professional. I settled for a cheap blue one, 4 metres by 5. Get it unpacked to find that there are indeed eyelets around the edges, although one is missing, so rather easier to hang than the thing we found up on the hill after the Derby the other year. A much smaller green cloth affair which was probably some piece of camping equipment but which, mysteriously, had eyelets down only one of the four sides.Start to think about erection to find that I only installed five scaffold ties into the fascias of the flat roofs on either side of the patio. Down to Screwfix to buy some more where I find that they come in fives at a price which clearly scared me off buying ten last time around. But this time not scared off and the sixth tie is now installed. Open to offers on the four remaining.
Followed by trial installation of the blue sheet. Various false starts but ended by having one long edge of the sheet tied to the extension side ties (off the top right of the illustration) and draping the other long edge over a rope strung between the garage side ties.
Which results in a rather nifty semi-outdoor, semi-enclosed, more or less shower proof and completely private dining area. Beer bottles are full but they are there for illustrative purposes only.
PS: I have just learned from the DT that the Abney Cemetery that we visited last year (see May 5th 2010) has been infested with tropical rat mites. Rather unpleasant things by the sound of it so we were lucky to have missed them.
# posted by Jim @ 8:14 AM 
