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The new kitchen

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Joey66 said:
My garage is full of Dyson machines & parts .....
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chrismpw said:
A sad day. After 23 years of unrelenting and faultless service, today I have decommissioned my fridge freezer. Its a quality Siemens device that i bought to replace my previous one that I'd calculated was costing me around a tenner a month to run (late 90s prices!). Its called Dave and i thought he was a keeper - he'd be with me forever- now I can only remember the Friday night curries it kept cold for me all those years before marriage closed yet another avenue of pleasure to me.

There's nothing wrong with it. Its just not silver and modern and not a chintzy make I've never heard of, that will last as long as its guarantee, that the female has chosen. It has a light that comes on slowly when you open the door. Doors that is. Its barely wider than my trust Siemens- my last reminder of blessed bachelorhood, but opening a door gives you access to just half the fridge ... inevitably the stuff you're looking for will behind the other door

I mean wtf.

Its bad enough we live in a disposable technology era Where you have to wait for your washing machine to boot up but having to wait for a light to slowly come on before you can find where she's hidden the bacon is just too much.
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It's beyond the joke now.

I know your shed is packed.

I know garage space is also at a premium.

But.......

It's clear to all you need a chest freezer. A chest freezer large enough to store.... Oh I dunno..... 55 to 65 kilos of meat.
 

No real update on the kitchen which only really now needs trimming, a few shelves and an internal window making.

Reason for this is that the female starts a new job in January... 80 minutes drive away near Reddich. Her solution to avoiding a commute is to tap into my experience living on boats for 15 years. To this end we bought a narrow boat in London and my job is to cart this ruddy thing the entire length of the grand union canal towards Stratford by mid January. I have to get half way before the 3rd otherwise a lock closes until March.

Trip didn't start well by being icebound fir two days and an icebreaker the next. Then fuel was low and there was the lock that leaked water faster than it filled ... took me 2 1/2 hours to get through after I hit on the idea of plugging the gap in the gates with driftwood and ramming the upper gates with the narrow boat. It was tipping down at the time.

I'm driving for 8 hours of daylight non-stop doing all the locks singlehandedly. It is hard work and I feel like I'm 80, but today was gloriously sunny and I chugged out if London towards Watford watching everybody else go to sit in office blocks. Ha!
 
chrismpw said:
No real update on the kitchen which only really now needs trimming, a few shelves and an internal window making.

Reason for this is that the female starts a new job in January... 80 minutes drive away near Reddich. Her solution to avoiding a commute is to tap into my experience living on boats for 15 years. To this end we bought a narrow boat in London and my job is to cart this ruddy thing the entire length of the grand union canal towards Stratford by mid January. I have to get half way before the 3rd otherwise a lock closes until March.

Trip didn't start well by being icebound fir two days and an icebreaker the next. Then fuel was low and there was the lock that leaked water faster than it filled ... took me 2 1/2 hours to get through after I hit on the idea of plugging the gap in the gates with driftwood and ramming the upper gates with the narrow boat. It was tipping down at the time.

I'm driving for 8 hours of daylight non-stop doing all the locks singlehandedly. It is hard work and I feel like I'm 80, but today was gloriously sunny and I chugged out if London towards Watford watching everybody else go to sit in office blocks. Ha!
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Nice to spend a few days on the boat.

Yeah the locks are a pain, but assuming you're on your own.... No mythering.
 
chrismpw said:
No real update on the kitchen which only really now needs trimming, a few shelves and an internal window making.

Reason for this is that the female starts a new job in January... 80 minutes drive away near Reddich. Her solution to avoiding a commute is to tap into my experience living on boats for 15 years. To this end we bought a narrow boat in London and my job is to cart this ruddy thing the entire length of the grand union canal towards Stratford by mid January. I have to get half way before the 3rd otherwise a lock closes until March.

Trip didn't start well by being icebound fir two days and an icebreaker the next. Then fuel was low and there was the lock that leaked water faster than it filled ... took me 2 1/2 hours to get through after I hit on the idea of plugging the gap in the gates with driftwood and ramming the upper gates with the narrow boat. It was tipping down at the time.

I'm driving for 8 hours of daylight non-stop doing all the locks singlehandedly. It is hard work and I feel like I'm 80, but today was gloriously sunny and I chugged out if London towards Watford watching everybody else go to sit in office blocks. Ha!
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So is she leaving you and your unpainted kitchen cupboards to live on a narrow boat in the midlands?
 
chrismpw said:
No real update on the kitchen which only really now needs trimming, a few shelves and an internal window making.

Reason for this is that the female starts a new job in January... 80 minutes drive away near Reddich. Her solution to avoiding a commute is to tap into my experience living on boats for 15 years. To this end we bought a narrow boat in London and my job is to cart this ruddy thing the entire length of the grand union canal towards Stratford by mid January. I have to get half way before the 3rd otherwise a lock closes until March.

Trip didn't start well by being icebound fir two days and an icebreaker the next. Then fuel was low and there was the lock that leaked water faster than it filled ... took me 2 1/2 hours to get through after I hit on the idea of plugging the gap in the gates with driftwood and ramming the upper gates with the narrow boat. It was tipping down at the time.

I'm driving for 8 hours of daylight non-stop doing all the locks singlehandedly. It is hard work and I feel like I'm 80, but today was gloriously sunny and I chugged out if London towards Watford watching everybody else go to sit in office blocks. Ha!
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Is she going to live on it ?

If so, you’re onto a winner.
 
chrismpw said:
No real update on the kitchen which only really now needs trimming, a few shelves and an internal window making.

Reason for this is that the female starts a new job in January... 80 minutes drive away near Reddich. Her solution to avoiding a commute is to tap into my experience living on boats for 15 years. To this end we bought a narrow boat in London and my job is to cart this ruddy thing the entire length of the grand union canal towards Stratford by mid January. I have to get half way before the 3rd otherwise a lock closes until March.

Trip didn't start well by being icebound fir two days and an icebreaker the next. Then fuel was low and there was the lock that leaked water faster than it filled ... took me 2 1/2 hours to get through after I hit on the idea of plugging the gap in the gates with driftwood and ramming the upper gates with the narrow boat. It was tipping down at the time.

I'm driving for 8 hours of daylight non-stop doing all the locks singlehandedly. It is hard work and I feel like I'm 80, but today was gloriously sunny and I chugged out if London towards Watford watching everybody else go to sit in office blocks. Ha!
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and hows the kitchen on this boat skip?
 

chrismpw said:
No real update on the kitchen which only really now needs trimming, a few shelves and an internal window making.

Reason for this is that the female starts a new job in January... 80 minutes drive away near Reddich. Her solution to avoiding a commute is to tap into my experience living on boats for 15 years. To this end we bought a narrow boat in London and my job is to cart this ruddy thing the entire length of the grand union canal towards Stratford by mid January. I have to get half way before the 3rd otherwise a lock closes until March.

Trip didn't start well by being icebound fir two days and an icebreaker the next. Then fuel was low and there was the lock that leaked water faster than it filled ... took me 2 1/2 hours to get through after I hit on the idea of plugging the gap in the gates with driftwood and ramming the upper gates with the narrow boat. It was tipping down at the time.

I'm driving for 8 hours of daylight non-stop doing all the locks singlehandedly. It is hard work and I feel like I'm 80, but today was gloriously sunny and I chugged out if London towards Watford watching everybody else go to sit in office blocks. Ha!
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You, Sir, are a mucking fadman.
Please keep us updated xx
 
chrismpw said:
No real update on the kitchen which only really now needs trimming, a few shelves and an internal window making.

Reason for this is that the female starts a new job in January... 80 minutes drive away near Reddich. Her solution to avoiding a commute is to tap into my experience living on boats for 15 years. To this end we bought a narrow boat in London and my job is to cart this ruddy thing the entire length of the grand union canal towards Stratford by mid January. I have to get half way before the 3rd otherwise a lock closes until March.

Trip didn't start well by being icebound fir two days and an icebreaker the next. Then fuel was low and there was the lock that leaked water faster than it filled ... took me 2 1/2 hours to get through after I hit on the idea of plugging the gap in the gates with driftwood and ramming the upper gates with the narrow boat. It was tipping down at the time.

I'm driving for 8 hours of daylight non-stop doing all the locks singlehandedly. It is hard work and I feel like I'm 80, but today was gloriously sunny and I chugged out if London towards Watford watching everybody else go to sit in office blocks. Ha!
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Bloody hell!

You don't do things by half measures mate.

Please start a thread on the boat, definitely interested in that too.
 

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