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Mate has one and he's built it a "kennel" where it goes back to bed & charge. An astro turfed table lift that sits level with the lawn is on his wish list.

Tee into a 20/25mm MDPE stub MDPE to 15mm copper gate valve 15mm pipe Double check valve 15mm pipe wall plate elbow tap Allows you to isolate the tap in winter and also the DCV meets water regs

Feeling pretty pleased with myself as I have been dreading making this door. video-1558292016.mp4

Yep - I think you're good also. I started with a generic call to the lender and was then asked to provide the PP, plans etc. It was after a week or two that they were very clear that nothing could happen until I had explicit permission to continue. We were going further, in demolishing the existing vs extending it (which is probably how they're considering yours).

Looks good to me. I'd print out copies of the emails just for safety.

I would say you have full consent, though of course it will depend on what you requested in your original email.

Seems good enough to me. Write back and thank them and confirm your understanding that you can go ahead without issue and to let you know if you haven't understood it correctly. It does sound like they won't have an issue though. If it's an extension you're doing rather than a demolition / rebuild I don't think the reply you've got is that unusual TBH. Do check your insurance though.

You could test it too and make sure it is fit for@pocster when (if?) he gets to the lawn.

Buy one and store it on my lawn?

Haha thanks anyway!! I came across this diagram about temporary building site supplies. This is from Anglian water and we are South West Water, but might this apply? Our blue pipe is just sticking up out of the ground and doesnt have any sort of insulation...

For a reason or reasons unknown to me I am about to pen a short piece about cats. I think it is mainly because @AnonymousBosch posted a picture of his supervisory cat, here. Now, that cat is a lot of things, and whilst allegedly Jellicle (ie black and white), is not so. It is clearly a Rum-Tum-Tugger - particularly given a penchant for using 'playbites' as a slightly abrupt management tool. It is also the fault of whoever did not tell me about the statue of Hodge, the supervisory cat that used to own Dr Samuel Johnson, when I was living in the City of London back in the late 1990s. As reported by Boswell: 'I recollect [Hodge] one day scrambling up Dr. Johnson's breast, apparently with much satisfaction, while my friend smiling and half-whistling, rubbed down his back, and pulled him by the tail; and when I observed he was a fine cat, saying, "Why yes, Sir, but I have had cats whom I liked better than this;" and then as if perceiving Hodge to be out of countenance, adding, "but he is a very fine cat, a very fine cat indeed."' I need to record somewhere that a statue of Hodge now exists in Gough Square, outside Dr Johnson's House - just around the corner from where Cafe Opera used to exist in Fleet Street. Cafe Opera was just what it says - reasonable Italian Food whilst being serenaded by Opera singers earning a crust on the side. (Credit Mrs Woffington, who's current blog, which seems unfortunately to have stopped in 2010, is here. I will assume she found a congenial Latin teacher who now occupies her interest). The oysters, upon which Dr Johnson used to feed Hodge, are a sign (in 2019 anyway) of a very supervisory cat. Whilst I'm jabbering about this area, I recommend that anyone wanting to get some amazing ideas for Garden Design take a tour around the two dozen pocket-parks in the City of London. These are genuinely delightful, complexly small designs, and deserve a profile as high as the collection of City Churches by Wren. Greyfriars Bobby, never mind Paddington Bear, eat your heart out.

I’m sure they do. Ours is hidden round the back but I do put it in the garage if we are going away. It has an alarm, which is of limited use, and a fob that can be removed to disable, although that’s mainly for safety. If they knew it was there, there would be nothing to stop someone nicking ours whilst we were out.

Yeah they all mulch, so best not to have it too long I guess. A week is about the maximum on our lawn before I have to switch from mulching to bagging. But I find mulching is always preferable long term for the lawn, if you can.

I presume these things need to cut the grass every few days? because they don't collect grass cuttings. If ours was left much more than a week it would be impossible to cut without collecting the grass cuttings (or leaving clumps of thatch everywhere)