Yzzy

I'm having a brain fart and can't remember the name of what I am trying to explain to hubby.... So I thought I'd ask you lot as I can't hear you laughing at me LOL OK so it's a wood/coal burner/can be stove... it's built in to a long clay or brick horizontal area that allows the heat to radiate around it... in Europe (well in my village in Czecho anyway) people in days gone by had them in the kitchens, the children would sleep on the horizontal bits because it was warm. Now people build them in gardens as a BBQ area and you can sit on the heated bits. Oh gawd.... I sound like a loon!!!! It's something like a space cooker or something... ?

We have a Samsung and I have to say while the fridge part is lovely and big and suits our large family the freezer part is piddly! Narrow, tiny compartments that only hold a couple of bags of frozen veg each. We had to buy a spare freezer for the utility room. We are renting at the moment but Hubby wants to get a similar beast for the renovation house (simply based on the water/ice dispenser) , I'm not too bothered as I'm not keen on cold drinks and because the freezer part is tiny. That didn't help you at all! ha ha ha.... i guess what I am saying is, I'd rather buy separate large units like we had before.

Something cute to start the day.... This is Gizmo (aka Banoffee or Fatty) And her siblings Minka, Biscuit and Shadow in the shadows there.... Our kittens who are 7 weeks old and REALLY ANNOYING, but almost ready to go to their new homes.... Apart from Mink... whom I have fallen for *sigh*

Back in the day I was a cop..... plenty of 'bluebottle' call outs to practice a strong stomach on

OMG I just got the "like your husband" comment!!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaa.... omg !!! Not blushed in years!!!

LOL He doesn't need encouragement!!! hubby is from Arkansas and is the funniest person I have ever met .... the bagless comment came from the guy on FB selling the bloody Henry!!!

This guy says his Henry is bagless.... is that bad? never had one before.. or even used one!

HA! First time I heard that was when I was courting my husband! lol Anyway...... I think we may give a Henry a go.. (if the guy on FB replies... £25!!)

Apparently a Henry is good, I'm not convinced myself but will see if anyone local is selling one and give it a go.... hmmmmm

Well we had a mouse fall out of the ceiling yesterday, when I went to pick it up to release it it BIT ME.... the bastard!! I was freeing it and it bit me (luckily my gloves)... so it flew out the window, not intentionally, I just jumped at the vicious rodent attack and was next to the window.... it landed on a broken wardrobe, looked up at me and ran off (I'm sure it flipped me off too)

You can reverse a leaf blower???? See I asked Hubby this and he said no.. that would be perfect! Oh crap.... there are HUNDREDS of nails in the joists!!!! Hundreds!

Will that cope with cement hard poopie?

We have SO many skeletons and decomposing pigeons in our refurb it's got to the point where I don't even flinch when I see them. Grab and bag.... This is a photo of what I found when I smashed up a wardrobe in one of the rooms... the wardrobe and a cupboard next to it created a V shaped space where over the last 4 years pigeons had flown in and got stuck.... a 3 foot tall Pyramid of death was the result... at the bottom powdered bones, then a layer of skeletons and on top fresh corpses.... NICE! That's just one corner... urgh

Anyone know? Also.... is there a vacuum cleaner that we can buy / rent that is strong enough to suck up piles and piles of pigeon shite? It's all very well bringing ceilings down and ggetting it out the attic but I now have RSI on my right thumb joint from shoveling the plaster and crap up ... would be SO much easier to suck it up!

When I was about 13 I'd been tending to a bonfire in that exact spot (but I was braver so no metal bin, direct on the floor!) walked into the kitchen, my dad used to run his business from the back workshop and his worker, Peter was working late and making himself a coffee... Peter: "Peww, you stink!" Me: "Yeah, I'm burning stuff outside, it's sooooooo beautiful" Peter: "You're always burning stuff out there" Me: "I know, I love fires, they look so magical.... actually ... I think I may be a Nymphomaniac" I had NO idea why the guy was almost choking on laughter until Mother walked in wanting to know what the fuss was all about so I told her, she laughed and suggested I go grab a dictionary...

So I got cold and thought... build a fire with the laths! OMG they burn fast and furious don't they? Is it the pigeon poop fueling the inferno? Almost managed to burn a whole ceilings worth in about 45 minutes! Plaster is now off room number 2, today we bag up the plaster and start ripping laths down... and more pooooooo

My parents bought the house in '79.... the woman who had it before us hadn't done anything to the house ever... I'm sure my Dad would have sorted it all anyway. But I will get a 2nd opinion on the back workshop roof... x

Ha ha, Hubby just sent me this, me on my knees surrounded by poop! This wasn't too bad really, I just sent my mind of on thoughts elsewhere... but standing in the almost open attic stamping down the ceiling was not so much fun, looking down 10 foot and realising I've been running around that attic since 1979 and not even thinking about what if I tread between the Rafters! I didn't realise I didn't like heights until today! LMAO!!! I have to do it all again !

ooohhhhh meant to ask.... All the Lath nails.... I say hammer them flat into the Rafters and the plaster board will go ok over it. Hubby says we need to get on ladders and pull each individual one out... This makes me sad.

Oh my goodness, we are in pain ha ha.... such hard work. Would be SO much easier if it wasn't for the mega blanket of bird shit we have to bag up. I have spent my afternoon up a ladder ripping down stubborn laths and getting a lovely shower of crap over my head for the effort... wouldn't be so bad if I didn't have dreadlocks! Anyway, room one on the ceiling destruction is now DONE and bagged up and swept, took us all in all 5 days, not all of them were full days like yesterday we only did a couple of hours. Moving on to room 2 tomorrow... urghhhhh On the plus side the P3 masks from Scewfix (GVS Elipse) are bloody amazing!!!! I can actually breath, don't get as sweaty, it doesn't hurt me at all and well ok so I still end up with a red 'droopy' mark on my face but... For £18 it's fab! Photos show just before I tidied up stray laths.

Going to give these a try, they look less heavy.. https://www.screwfix.com/p/gvs-elipse-half-mask-respirator-p3/6922g Still P3 though so

We are 99% sure there isn't any..... Wouldn't be any in the lath and plaster would there? I've asked Mother and she says no lead paints and no asbestos anywhere...

Where does one get a full face mask? The half masks hurt my face and I end up with red marks around my nose/mouth that make me look like Droopy for 3 hours after! OK nevermind, just found them on Screwfix..... £100 plus!!! eeeek... will stick to Droopy...

Yes!!! From outside it does look like smoke... it is a crappy crappy job BUT to pay someone to do it is extortionate!! So... we are doing it... the pulling down is actually not too bad (we take lots of fresh air breaks) it's bagging up all the rubble etc after that's horrid!

Popped in for a quick 2 hour work at the house, short shift today...... Our method for ceiling removal is: 1) Polystirene tiles off 2) Plaster off 3) Laths off 4) anything left brought down... Well in this room (our first to do) there was apparently a hole in the roof so Mother had some plastic sheeting put in the attic to catch drips while she waited for roofers to come fix it... (why the person couldn't slide a slate in while he was up there I dont know!!)... anyway, it means that over the last 3 - 4 years it has collected pigeon shite and it is now hanging in long intestine shaped hammocks all over the ceiling. So we stopped pulling down laths to slice along the sausage skins of poopness and let some of the crap, old clothes and bloody big slates fall down. Hence quitting after a couple of hours as the dust was so bad we could taste it even through our masks....