Quit whilst ahead

[twice round the block]

Done a large self build barn conversion in 1983, lived in a static on site for 2 years, frozen water and gas bottles, misses and three year old daughter.

 

Daughter has just secured demolition job / plot and I will project manage it. Already started cleaning up old stock bricks for the walled garden, yet another mixer purchased!

Im supposed to be retired,  I just never seem to learn.

[SteamyTea]

Welcome.

 

Which part of Bucks are you in.  Your daughter could demolish most of Aylesbury's council buildings and everyone would be happy. 

[Jilly]

Wow, well done, she's lucky to have you as PM. The BC regs have changed a lot since then, but you'll be fine.

[jack]

22 minutes ago, twice round the block said:

Im supposed to be retired,  I just never seem to learn.

 

Ha, you'll fit in around here.

[twice round the block]

My barn was in Mentmore, but this plot comes under Chiltern & District planning area, and our dealings with them todate have been exasperating. 

 

You can't relocate your entrance,  but we can tear up thousands of acres of woodland a put HS2 in at the bottom of the lane.

[SteamyTea]

11 minutes ago, twice round the block said:

Mentmore

Very nice, is DLT a neighbour (he may have moved since is career was wrecked with false allogations).

[twice round the block]

2 minutes ago, SteamyTea said:

Very nice, is DLT a neighbour (he may have moved since is career was wrecked with false allogations).

Moved from Mentmore, live in another small village close by,  and DLT moved so we're even closer neighbours now.

[SteamyTea]

1 minute ago, twice round the block said:

live in another small village close by

2 or 3 other BuildHubbers are out that way.

[twice round the block]

30 minutes ago, SteamyTea said:

2 or 3 other BuildHubbers are out that way.

I thought there we're a few more nutters out this way, as you wouldn't attempt somethings in the right frame of mind.

[SteamyTea]

25 minutes ago, twice round the block said:

nutters out this way,

This one left decades ago.

[MikeSharp01]

13 minutes ago, SteamyTea said:

This one left decades ago.

Some might say worst thing that happened, others might say the best thing that happened - but mostly nobody noticed which in itself was a shame but generally the way of things. ‘THE PAST IS A FOREIGN COUNTRY: THEY DO THINGS DIFFERENTLY there.’ L. P. Hartley. Which I guess is why building control is very different today.

 

39 minutes ago, twice round the block said:

I thought there we're a few more nutters out this way, as you wouldn't attempt somethings in the right frame of mind.

We are actually all over the place - and like @SteamyTea we sometimes move about a bit, none the less you are very welcome to THE forum for people like us.

[SteamyTea]

16 minutes ago, MikeSharp01 said:

Some might say worst thing that happened, others might say the best thing that happened

Some say, when I moved, the IQ doubled in both places.

[MikeSharp01]

18 minutes ago, SteamyTea said:

Some say, when I moved, the IQ doubled in both places.

Then they clearly have no understanding of number.

[Marvin]

43 minutes ago, MikeSharp01 said:

Then they clearly have no understanding of number.

Or you don't, or you do understand @SteamyTea clever witticism, and I just fell for your one.

Edited July 30, 2022 by Marvin
Clarification

[MikeSharp01]

1 minute ago, Marvin said:

Or you don't, or you do understand @SteamyTea cever witticism, and I just fell for you one.

Well I never thought I was that clever but maybe I am by comparison to some - oh that's how IQ works, now I get it 😂. 

[Marvin]

35 minutes ago, MikeSharp01 said:

Well I never thought I was that clever but maybe I am by comparison to some - oh that's how IQ works, now I get it 😂. 

Yes the above average intelligence number is any number above 100 on a propper test.