Reynard
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Lullabelle
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Well *this* girl no likey soapy TV programmes.
Sports, sci-fi and science / history documentaries is where I'm at as far as televisual entertainment is concerned.
No tv soaps in this house either
raleighnut
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Now that's a good 'work/life' balance and the fact you're restoring a house sympathetically should be seen as a pleasure, not work as such (you could have bulldozed it and thrown up a bungalow on the site in 6 months)
No tv soaps in this house either
Et moi aussie. My list looks likes Reynard's, without the sci-fi, which is why you'll find me on here rather than in front of the box.
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That's what the estate agent suggested ("You'll push it over and build a big 4 bed detached, won't you"). Once I lifted the upstairs carpet and saw the old floorboards, there was no way I wasn't buying the house, and no way I wasn't restoring it. I wouldn't have needed to bulldoze it, either. Left to it's own devices it would have collapsed within 5 years, I reckon. And you're dead right about it being a pleasure. The process is every bit as important as the finished product, and although it's slow, and although I went 2 years without a single day off, I'm loving it.
Reynard
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Well, *someone* has to be the sci-fi geekette among us mundaners.
Babylon 5 is my favourite sci-fi universe.
I do like curling up with a good box set or book.
And then there're the fanfiction archives online...
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At 7pm this evening I was not watching any sop hoperas. I was watching "Shed and Buried, the best bits."
........I do like curling up with a good box set or book.
These days, if I sit down, I fall asleep. I did read Cecil Hewett's classic "English Historic Carpentry" cover to cover 3 times in a row, last year, so I haven't forgotten how to to read. I've just forgotten how to stay awake long enough.......
raleighnut
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Aye but can you do the 'Vulcan Salute' without thinking about it,Well, *someone* has to be the sci-fi geekette among us mundaners.
Babylon 5 is my favourite sci-fi universe.
I do like curling up with a good box set or book.
raleighnut
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You'd have loved my main Lecturer when I spent 2yrs at College completing my Cabinet Makers 'City & Guilds'.
EDIT - That was a 2yr 'fulltime' course of 32hrs a week as well as anytime we could get in the workshop when a lecturer was present (H&S) and bench space was free.
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Reynard
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- Cambridgeshire, UK
Yes. With *BOTH* hands.
I cosplayed as Dr Leonard "Bones" McCoy at the GCCF Supreme cat show a couple of years ago when the theme was Sci-Fi. This was Poppy's pen, all woodworked, painted and sewn by yours truly.
raleighnut
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At 30 I was made redundant from my Foundry job (I was a freehand 'Green Sand' Moulder in an ornamental Brass Foundry) and had got interested in Antique furniture as we used to make authentic replica handles etc. from old ones so I applied for a grant (successfully) and used my savings to do the course. I then found out that no-one hardly was willing to pay for restoration (or buy anything restored) and the firms that did restore/sell 'Antiques' at the time just mackled and bodged things up. That's how I ended up in Shopfitting (for the dosh I was paid)
raleighnut
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Both hands..................................................Me tooYes. With *BOTH* hands.
I cosplayed as Dr Leonard "Bones" McCoy at the GCCF Supreme cat show a couple of years ago when the theme was Sci-Fi. This was Poppy's pen, all woodworked, painted and sewn by yours truly.
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