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  • TangoAlphaTangoAlpha Posts: 4,584
    Chohole said:
    TangoAlpha said:

    Nothing wrong with old houses . . . with their damp, and dry rot, and warped framing, and crumbling masonary, and ill-fitting doors & windows, & dodgy plumbing, & electrics out of the arc . . .

    ;)

    Hmm,   I will have to tell my landlord that he is cheating me.  Our house was built sometime in the 1830s, and it  is dry, no dry rot, no crumbling masonary (that could be because it is built from rock and the walls are 18 inches to 2 feet thick.  Windows and doors made to measure when they were upgraded and the plumbing and elelctrics are fine, except I have a couple of washers need replacing on the taps.

     

    mind you I do admit that the previous house we were living in, just over a mile away from here, did meet your description on several points.

    I think your house is less of a building and more of a cave!

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    edited December 2016
    TangoAlpha said:
    Chohole said:
    TangoAlpha said:

    Nothing wrong with old houses . . . with their damp, and dry rot, and warped framing, and crumbling masonary, and ill-fitting doors & windows, & dodgy plumbing, & electrics out of the arc . . .

    ;)

    Hmm,   I will have to tell my landlord that he is cheating me.  Our house was built sometime in the 1830s, and it  is dry, no dry rot, no crumbling masonary (that could be because it is built from rock and the walls are 18 inches to 2 feet thick.  Windows and doors made to measure when they were upgraded and the plumbing and elelctrics are fine, except I have a couple of washers need replacing on the taps.

     

    mind you I do admit that the previous house we were living in, just over a mile away from here, did meet your description on several points.

    I think your house is less of a building and more of a cave!

    copy of image of house from Google street view.  (They render the outsides with a special coating which is supposed to be insulating,  underneath it is stone walls.)

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  • TangoAlphaTangoAlpha Posts: 4,584

    Yup. Wasn't so much built as chiseled out of the bedrock. Or possibly hewn. I rather like that word. Hewn. Got a ring to it! wink

    Nice house, btw. You have the kind of front lawn I could probably cope with (ie nonexistent)!

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    edited December 2016
    TangoAlpha said:

    Yup. Wasn't so much built as chiseled out of the bedrock. Or possibly hewn. I rather like that word. Hewn. Got a ring to it! wink

    Nice house, btw. You have the kind of front lawn I could probably cope with (ie nonexistent)!

    LOL   Inside is quite fun, unless you are really fixated on completely 100% straight walls and 90° corners. Kitchen is one step up higher than the main room (which is open plan now, would originally have been 2 small rooms, each with a window.) The Kichen is an extension and then at some later date a second extension was added with a bathroom and a utility area. Know that it was added at a different date to the original extension as  there is a window in the wall between the kitchen and the passage which leads to the bathroom and uitility area (a more typical cottage window than the UPVC ones which are now in the front windows..  Patio outside is same level as the kitchen and then the main garden has 4 steps to get to it, and then slopes upward to the back wall and gate.

    And yes Hewn is probably the right word as this area was originally all coal mining and iron works.   I think at one stage some writer did say that the mining villages, the houses looked as though they had grown from the hillsides, with the roads hewn in between.

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    Taozen said:
    LeatherGryphon said:

    PS: "Clams got legs!" surprise

    We need more pants for clams in the DAZ store!

    lol

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    not too brr brr today

    Partly Cloudy/Wind
    7°c NW 32 km/h

    47°f    NW 20 mph

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    Chohole said:
    TangoAlpha said:

    Yup. Wasn't so much built as chiseled out of the bedrock. Or possibly hewn. I rather like that word. Hewn. Got a ring to it! wink

    Nice house, btw. You have the kind of front lawn I could probably cope with (ie nonexistent)!

    LOL   Inside is quite fun, unless you are really fixated on completely 100% straight walls and 90° corners. Kitchen is one step up higher than the main room (which is open plan now, would originally have been 2 small rooms, each with a window.) The Kichen is an extension and then at some later date a second extension was added with a bathroom and a utility area. Know that it was added at a different date to the original extension as  there is a window in the wall between the kitchen and the passage which leads to the bathroom and uitility area (a more typical cottage window than the UPVC ones which are now in the front windows..  Patio outside is same level as the kitchen and then the main garden has 4 steps to get to it, and then slopes upward to the back wall and gate.

    And yes Hewn is probably the right word as this area was originally all coal mining and iron works.   I think at one stage some writer did say that the mining villages, the houses looked as though they had grown from the hillsides, with the roads hewn in between.

     

    safe from draftty windows ? 

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    MistyMist said:
    Chohole said:
    TangoAlpha said:

    Yup. Wasn't so much built as chiseled out of the bedrock. Or possibly hewn. I rather like that word. Hewn. Got a ring to it! wink

    Nice house, btw. You have the kind of front lawn I could probably cope with (ie nonexistent)!

    LOL   Inside is quite fun, unless you are really fixated on completely 100% straight walls and 90° corners. Kitchen is one step up higher than the main room (which is open plan now, would originally have been 2 small rooms, each with a window.) The Kichen is an extension and then at some later date a second extension was added with a bathroom and a utility area. Know that it was added at a different date to the original extension as  there is a window in the wall between the kitchen and the passage which leads to the bathroom and uitility area (a more typical cottage window than the UPVC ones which are now in the front windows..  Patio outside is same level as the kitchen and then the main garden has 4 steps to get to it, and then slopes upward to the back wall and gate.

    And yes Hewn is probably the right word as this area was originally all coal mining and iron works.   I think at one stage some writer did say that the mining villages, the houses looked as though they had grown from the hillsides, with the roads hewn in between.

     

    safe from draftty windows ? 

    Yes,  new windows added at front and in kitchen and bathroom. UPVC windows, and they can use the render, which is a lime based render with sometimes hair or small pebbles mixed into to it, to make sure that the new windows fit sugly into the old walls.  In fact if it is done well it is neccessary to add vents at some place in the house, to ensure some fresh air. I have a small vent in the kitxchen, well placed to take the fumes form the filter hood over the cooker, and a powered vent-axia in the bathroom

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    dreams of newwindows heart

    i put packing tape round the seams of the windows.  blocks some of the draft 

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    what do yoo cook in your cous cous?

    my cous cous box came with a flavor packet, says soy protein isolate, trepedations bout eatig it.

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604

    Couscous is not something I have ever tried, I have to admit.

     

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,221

    Serpent Is Gone

    Erato no longer stops by,
    To a-muse us on the fly,
    With wit and rhyme,
    To help us pass the time.

    It must be said,
    We all miss Ed.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,652
    edited December 2016
    Chohole said:

    Couscous is not something I have ever tried, I have to admit.

    "Couscous" always sounded to me like a small cuddly lower primate type animal with big eyes and long fluffy tail that lived in trees. surprise  I'm glad some people don't eat them.

     

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    LeatherGryphon said:
    Chohole said:

    Couscous is not something I have ever tried, I have to admit.

    "Couscous" always sounded to me like a small cuddly lower primate type animal with big eyes and long fluffy tail that lived in trees. surprise  I'm glad some people don't eat them.

     

     

    sounds like species of the snufalufugus family

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    deciding 3 mile walk for candy and marshmallow santas 

    dark in a few hours, ... for candy ... 

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,213
    MistyMist said:

    not too brr brr today

    Partly Cloudy/Wind
    7°c NW 32 km/h

    47°f    NW 20 mph

    ...interesting that on their national map, the Weather Channel sees Green Bay as more important than Milwaukee or Madison. Never understood that.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,213
    Tjohn said:

    Serpent Is Gone

    Erato no longer stops by,
    To a-muse us on the fly,
    With wit and rhyme,
    To help us pass the time.

    It must be said,
    We all miss Ed.

    ...bugger, this year has become just that more rotten, and now it's personal. Even though we never had the chance to meet I regarded him as a very close friend as there were many interests we had in common.

    Always hoped we could get together sometime whether he came here to visit, or I went down to Austin (which I was hoping to do next summer).

    While doing my daily errands today will stop at the pub to raise a couple pints in his memory. 

    To Ed/Wooly Loach/Featherd Serpent, you will be sorely missed.

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776

    Morning. Warming up here under an eggshell blue & so far cloudless sky, has only rained a few mm the past couple of weeks and green stuff is beginning to go brown but wow, haz summer :0

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  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    kyoto kid said:
    Tjohn said:

    Serpent Is Gone

    Erato no longer stops by,
    To a-muse us on the fly,
    With wit and rhyme,
    To help us pass the time.

    It must be said,
    We all miss Ed.

    ...bugger, this year has become just that more rotten, and now it's personal. Even though we never had the chance to meet I regarded him as a very close friend as there were many interests we had in common.

    Always hoped we could get together sometime whether he came here to visit, or I went down to Austin (which I was hoping to do next summer).

    While doing my daily errands today will stop at the pub to raise a couple pints in his memory. 

    To Ed/Wooly Loach/Featherd Serpent, you will be sorely missed.

    Think Ed is still working in San Antonio right now

    http://the-serpents-fang.blogspot.com.au

     

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited December 2016
    LeatherGryphon said:
    Chohole said:

    Couscous is not something I have ever tried, I have to admit.

    "Couscous" always sounded to me like a small cuddly lower primate type animal with big eyes and long fluffy tail that lived in trees. surprise  I'm glad some people don't eat them.

     

    oh noes, all those curry Couscous I ate...

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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,213
    edited December 2016
    ps1borg said:
    kyoto kid said:
    Tjohn said:

    Serpent Is Gone

    Erato no longer stops by,
    To a-muse us on the fly,
    With wit and rhyme,
    To help us pass the time.

    It must be said,
    We all miss Ed.

    ...bugger, this year has become just that more rotten, and now it's personal. Even though we never had the chance to meet I regarded him as a very close friend as there were many interests we had in common.

    Always hoped we could get together sometime whether he came here to visit, or I went down to Austin (which I was hoping to do next summer).

    While doing my daily errands today will stop at the pub to raise a couple pints in his memory. 

    To Ed/Wooly Loach/Featherd Serpent, you will be sorely missed.

    Think Ed is still working in San Antonio right now

    http://the-serpents-fang.blogspot.com.au

     

    ..woah, the way TJ made it sound, it semed he had passed on. I know he was having serious health issues the last time I heard from him.

    Checked a couple links from the one above. First was closed, though found him on the Ambient Online thread under his Username from the site where he posted his sound works. Still shows as being in Austin though the profile probably wasn't updated.  Most recent post there was about an hour ago my local time. 

    That is a big relief.  Considering all the good people that have been lost this year, that was my first reaction.

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    back from my candy excursion.  they had a big display of ferrara torrone smiley  didnt see amy ffeffenooz

    ferrara makin me work for it, each piece is foil wrapped, then they give it it's own lil individual box,  is an exercise in small motor skills

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    tee hee

    art before daz was invented

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,213

    ...yes

    Should post that on the 10 Click Render Thread.

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,221
    kyoto kid said:
    Tjohn said:

    Serpent Is Gone

    Erato no longer stops by,
    To a-muse us on the fly,
    With wit and rhyme,
    To help us pass the time.

    It must be said,
    We all miss Ed.

    ...bugger, this year has become just that more rotten, and now it's personal. Even though we never had the chance to meet I regarded him as a very close friend as there were many interests we had in common.

    Always hoped we could get together sometime whether he came here to visit, or I went down to Austin (which I was hoping to do next summer).

    While doing my daily errands today will stop at the pub to raise a couple pints in his memory. 

    To Ed/Wooly Loach/Featherd Serpent, you will be sorely missed.

    Sorry I didn't mean he passed away! Only that he doesn't come here anymore. crying And I miss him terribly. He posted here today:

    http://www.ambientonline.org/forum/showthread.php?190-What-are-you-doing-RIGHT-NOW/page84&highlight=Project+Synthetic+Aurality

    Oh, so sorry KK, mea culpa!

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,213
    ...yeah that's OK. Your's was the first post I saw this morning and as I mentioned, given how bad 2016 has been, with the losses of so many good people, and that his health wasn't the best last time I heard from him, it was easy to come to the conclusion I did.
  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,260
    TangoAlpha said:
    Richard Haseltine said:
    TangoAlpha said:

    electrics out of the arc . . .

    Freudian (or Edisonian) slip?

    It's a crackle; I get a buzz out of it that leaves me in a tingle. Shocking really, but you have to strike while the ion is hot. Anode you could charge me with battery, and I'm positive I couldn't endure a cell; I'd much rather stay ohm . . .

    Bravo!   yes  laugh 

    Dana

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,260
    Chohole said:
    TangoAlpha said:
    Chohole said:
    TangoAlpha said:

    Nothing wrong with old houses . . . with their damp, and dry rot, and warped framing, and crumbling masonary, and ill-fitting doors & windows, & dodgy plumbing, & electrics out of the arc . . .

    ;)

    Hmm,   I will have to tell my landlord that he is cheating me.  Our house was built sometime in the 1830s, and it  is dry, no dry rot, no crumbling masonary (that could be because it is built from rock and the walls are 18 inches to 2 feet thick.  Windows and doors made to measure when they were upgraded and the plumbing and elelctrics are fine, except I have a couple of washers need replacing on the taps.

     

    mind you I do admit that the previous house we were living in, just over a mile away from here, did meet your description on several points.

    I think your house is less of a building and more of a cave!

    copy of image of house from Google street view.  (They render the outsides with a special coating which is supposed to be insulating,  underneath it is stone walls.)

    With walls that thick, there must be cozy resting place for your cat(s).

    Dana

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,260
    Tjohn said:

    Serpent Is Gone

    Erato no longer stops by,
    To a-muse us on the fly,
    With wit and rhyme,
    To help us pass the time.

    It must be said,
    We all miss Ed.

    Here, here!

    Dana

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,260
    kyoto kid said:
    MistyMist said:

    not too brr brr today

    Partly Cloudy/Wind
    7°c NW 32 km/h

    47°f    NW 20 mph

    ...interesting that on their national map, the Weather Channel sees Green Bay as more important than Milwaukee or Madison. Never understood that.

    Must be pointy football fans who made that decision.

    Dana

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