Day 41 – 2014
Day 36 – 2014
Did the next section – not as big as the first – and not as hard on me physically!
Day 35 – 2014
Finished the first section I started once I got the tile cutter working again
Day 34 – 2014
More playing with sketchbook pro on my note, using a new stylus which feels much more like a pen!
Day 33 – 2014
Day 32 – 2014
A Hot and Sweet dipping sauce for buffalo wings.
Ingredients:
50g butter
3 table spoons of honey
1 small bottle of nandos periperi medium sauce
2-3 table spoons of ketchup
Worcestershire sauce
Dark Soy Sauce
Method:
Melt the butter over a low heat. Add the honey and stir until smooth. Add the entire bottle of periperi sauce and continue stirring. Add the Ketchup, and then add Worcestershire sauce and soy sauce to taste. Keep on a gentle heat until ready to serve.
Day 30 – 2014
Day 26 – 2014
Well now, things could start to get boring here. I have started trimming the slate into usable bits. Not as much done last night as I would have liked as the person who borrowed my tile cutter left it in a hell of a state. It is now fixed and is working well.
Day 24 – 2014
Mass LEGO building at the Penguin Palace last night! Girue even created a little something!
Day 23 – 2014
Spent the day sorting out the slates that had been taken down from the roof.
End result?
Out of the 1000+ slates that came off only 195 were full size and possible reusable. Those are the front row and back row in the right hand pallet. All the slates in the right hand side are not.
So I hear you ask – ‘How is this creative’
‘Watch this space’ is my answer!
But seriously, now I have all these sorted I have a plan to use the unusable slates which involves the use of an angle grinder!
As I said before – watch this space and see what develops over the next week or two.
Day 22 – 2014
Preparation time!
With the advent of the problems on my roof (storm damage before Christmas with more following the winds in February) the entire roof was stripped. The idea was for it to be re-felted, re-battened and then reusing the slate that had been taken off to re-slate the roof, and maybe have to get another 100 slates or so.
But, no!
Damned cowboy roofers seemed to have taken the Michael somewhat. The roof was felted and battened, but not with any accuracy. Then when the slates were put on it showed that the battens were out, instead of redoing the battens they only went and ran an angle grinder along the top of the slates so they could get then next course on.
The end result?
Having to replace all the slates…
End result – a not very happy me.
Spent Saturday with the roofers unloading the old slate from the roof and hoisting up new ones…
PS the picture here is of the old sorted which I did on Sunday – you can hopefully see the different length of the slate that was taken down. The slate at the front right is full size so you can see how much has been taken off most of them. This is all preparation for a new and different creative project which should develop over the next week or so.
Day 19 – 2014
Day 18 – 2014
