Southerly: Deconstruction and Construction
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Yeesss!
I gave your “My First Stabbing” to my family in Waimate.
I’ve yet to hear back from them.
The hospitality offer still stands..Annnnd
-brillant post!
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David Haywood, in reply to
Thank you! We're moving (Saturday) into the semi-mythical earthquake village in Linwood. But *very* touched by the offer of hospitality! Oodles to do on the house before we pick it up and put it on the truck (especially paving stones) -- so handy to be in deepest Linwood only a short journey away from the ruins of Avonside. Jen desperately packing for the move as I type -- better join her...
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"May I borrow your sledgehammer, please," he asked.
Heh. And best wishes for the move.
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How many paving stones can you lift in the time it takes to count 5907 paving stones?
Oh, and I particularly like the way the "notoriously camera-shy Dalziel" remains notoriously camera shy! -
How wonderful to hear from you, David. Thanks for sharing this with us.
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Gee,
Bob never fails to impress! Hope the rest of the deconstruction (and pavestone moving) goes well.
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Great to hear of the progress, best wishes for the move. The old neighbourhood is looking awfully derelict as people move on, but the future looks positive now.
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Lovely pic of Bob and his gorgeous case! Are you translocating the two-story playhouse too or did it get taken out with an #eqnz?
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I am at once delighted to read this, and saddened to discover I don't even have the building prowess of a four year old boy.
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Hope the moving process continues to go smoothly.
Our garage has also been a mysterious survivor. Even before any shakiness it was so rickety that we didn't like going in there so I'd half hoped it would fall down in a quake (as my kids have informed every single EQC and Fletchers person who has visited). It went a bit wonky after February so we had some hopes but in the end the builders, who have just finished here, put a rope around it and pulled it straight (it may have been more complex than that. It that's how they described it). It's still bothersomely rickety.
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Whoa. When you guys move house, you REALLY move house. Also, I believe the Hay-Haywood clan motto is "when in doubt, build a tongue-and-groove dulcimer case" but I'm buggered if I know how to put that into Latin. Something close to dum spiro, spero, perhaps.
Those paving stones look ominously back-ruining to me. In the absence of a full-on PAS working bee (St Ian is a celestial army of one), d'you think Student Job Search might be able to help a little? What price a fully functioning paterfamilias, after all? Or get Polly busy with a trolley...
Best wishes for the rest of the move, and looking forward to the After-After photos.
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What clever chaps!
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David; Thought you might enjoy this piece from this morning’s Waikato Times, as you lift that bale, tote that barge
A large ad for the grand opening of the “Peaches & Cream Adult Megastore”, with a major attraction of a “free sausage sizzle”. Bring your own sausage, presumably.
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Reading your pieces is always an uplifting experience, if you'll excuse the pun.
I am at once delighted to read this, and saddened to discover I don't even have the building prowess of a four year old boy.
Yes, that too.
Ian clearly takes the saintliness thing seriously by being both indefatigable and invisible. ;-)
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Oh the joy of a sledgehammer and the license to demolish.
Great to see you are making progress and also great to see Bob declaring his intent to be a builder of wonders.
Spa pools come into their own as the body gets more prone to declaring it's weaknesses and switching to peroxide instead of chlorine make maintenance much easier. Now if we could just get a lid that lasted longer than 2 years.
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Watch out for them thar pavers. My Doctor reckons lifting pavers cause piles and I don't think he means piles of pavers.
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Bob the builder, hasn't he grown and yes a four year old who plainly can build better than me (with supervision)
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Pavers
Plus the one that went down the earthquake crack = 13 tonne.
you can fit 26 in a wheelbarrow load
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The only thing worse than lifting 5097 pavers would be re-laying 5097 pavers.
That roller in the photo is sure going to get some use at the new place that's for sure. :-)
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Do you understand the concept of spa pooling? I don't. You get in. You are instantly bored. There is nothing -- I repeat nothing -- to do.
Okay, I'm not a big fan of spa pools, but I'm pretty sure you're doing this wrong. There should be Other People, and Alcohol.
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George Darroch, in reply to
Okay, I’m not a big fan of spa pools, but I’m pretty sure you’re doing this wrong. There should be Other People, and Alcohol.
You don’t need water to drink alcohol.
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My son's dearly loved uncles and cousins run a spa pool family business - including in the south island. Don't knock them
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Rich of Observationz, in reply to
You do unless you want your throat burnt off by 100% anhydrous ethanol. Unsafe.
(I don't drink alcohol. I drink beer, wine and some other beverages. Sure, they contain alcohol, but they also contain sugar. And nobody says they drink sugar).
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Rich of Observationz, in reply to
spa pool family
Is that a family that was conceived in a spa pool?
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Having lifted less than 100 pavers in the last week, I have an approximation of your pain. However, they are almost indestructible, and extremely useful.
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