Ferdinand

And then you come and join ours. Bah Humbug !!! Welcome to Buildhub, @John w. Do tell us a bit about yourself, and what you are thinking about or planning. There are several renovation project blogs, and mine below has some bits on there. One good thing to do early, is to build a heat model of your house, using the spreadsheet that is around somewhere. If you ask, someone will link. Ferdinand

Lots of options. My backup service is via the Unlimited Data option on my mobile phone. Virgin Cable do not use a BT Socket. You can get standalone data services over mobile, or things like Microwave beam or satellite. Ferdinand

Wassail ! Drink Heil (or rather "Drink Ale")! (I won't get a Sieg quip in there and survive Deletion by the Buildhub Cyberman ? ? ?.)

Seamus O Hoolahan? !!! HOTLIPS ?

Thanks. I think our sustainability credentials should be up there, apart from the concrete basement that is! ?‍♂️ Make like Hitachi, or .. er .. Albert Speer, you two, and use a 1000 year time horizon in your calculations. Then it is suddenly sustainable. Abracadabra !

That is the general spot, but I think going out onto the agricultural land will make it much more difficult. Stick on the garden land, and your life may be 10 times easier. But ask the q.

If I wasn’t diabetic, one of the things I would buy now would be a full size 25kg sack of potatoes or two, which will last for months. We used to give them to a couple of friends at Christmas. ? But I moderate-carb So I bought 2.5kg Last thing I expected was to be learning to grow veg the spring after mum passed away. But need to do the last list of seeds tonight to pick up tomorrow.

This after 9-10 days, with labels. This years spicy salad leaves, and old seeds for pea shoots, Curley parsley, little gem lettuce and spring onions. the parsley and lettuce have started, pea shoots and spring greens not yet. Spicy salad will be eatable next week. D,

Just spoke to my Council. They are planning to continue to run services, potentially with a reduced staff if employees are affected, but with no public access to the offices. Very rational to keep going as nearly as possible. I am thinking about doing an Change of Use app that needs to be done during my period in isolation. Ferdinand

Potentially very tricky plot in planning terms. To ask this assume you have some sort of approval / pre-approval. I would take a long time thinking about it, and I might even think bungalow or an outline profile inspired say by Diana Princess of Wales conservatory at Kew (below), as you have loads of space. You need exposure to the South-West but also complete privacy from the other houses, which they will want not to try and stop you. You also need to have them on side, or at least not horribly off-side. I would be thinking top right of the yellow box, a path width away from the boundary, oriented South West with exposure to the North and East through windows or perhaps an evening patio or balcony hidden from the houses. What are plans for all the land around - is it zoned for housing in say 15 years time? If it is that changes what you do. How much of that half-demolished-for-the-driveway house is left - is it viable? Ferdinand

Welcome to the OP if you revisit the thread. Sorry for missing you in Jan - must have been flat on my back dying from a winter lurgy at the time. How are things now? Ferdinand

Welome to the madhouse. If there is anything that several contradictory opinions will help you explore, please do ask - there is no such thing as a stupid question. One nice thing about long houses is that you can have arguments by megaphone or telegraph then keep out of people's way ? . If there are 3 of you it needs a plan like the factory rooftops in The Italian Job (real version), then you can still achieve distance and arguments, but you need boomerangs to throw at each other. ? Ferdinand

What is your soil? Does it drain? One risk is they are filled with water and it stays. Dad's client once had that happen to a huge outdoor lake before they got the liner in ? .

This may also help, depending on circs. Or not. I now fry with a lid on the pan, which also somewhat speeds up cooking - especially good for eggs where the top seems to get half steamed rather than needing to set up a spoon-fat-watermill operation to cook the top. My frying pans come from Procook and they do a couple of lid designs with rings like a fresnel lens that fit a couple of sizes of pan.

Ooops. Granny. Eggs. Sucking. Sorry. Must have been the tray of eggs I am hoarding. I could allege that it wasn't clear from your original post and I still claim my 15% since I still did the work, and answered the other question too - this is construction? ??

The fee is per submission not per discharge AIUI, and you can put them all on one submission. https://www.cambridge.gov.uk/apply-to-discharge-a-planning-condition That has saved you 8 x 114 = £904 and I claim my 15%. The NMA thing looks ambitious, but someone on BH may have done it, and you now have a budget of £904 - 15% available ?. F

thanks. Tiles ! ? I will see if I can check for you .. but they are from Tiletown and the choice was iirc for being matt-ish but not too hard to clean, and a varied but attractive and not loud background texture.

Been hoarding it since last summer ? . Or are you pointing out that your “log roll bog roll” dispenser hides the hoard?

Tell me next week, when I have been locked down with all the others... Anyhoo, judging by the dates on this thread, my stirry craziness is genetic. Anhyoo, behave or I will tell them about the Famous Five Fanfic that shocked you ... you are supposed to be an unshockable zombie from Thanet, not a snowflake. F Who may be in isolation with all the others from the w/e.

There is a thing called an earthquake (from Diffords Guide): https://www.diffordsguide.com/cocktails/recipe/4807/tremblement-de-terre-earthquake

I think someone built recently on Brownsea Island? Though not a hotel.

Wasn't that Amundsen?

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Good idea.

One thing I'll probably be doing is setting up a group for our lane (or for a number of houses each way), perhaps on the system that Joan Bakewell uses. Does anyone know which one it is? Also the lady who had dad build that C shaped bungalow in 1970 is turning 100 this month, so I'll give her a phone call. Plus I have to think about helping tenants, and which ones are genuinely vulnerable with not a lot of reserves - a small number are in high end furniture manufacturing which is dependent on retail, and at least a couple have sproglets less than 6 months old. And today is car insurance day, so I need to do it before forgetting and driving out. Ferdinand