When you live in a 160 year old wood frame house, its pretty much inevitable that there will be periodic repairs and maintenance and some of those have been keeping me too busy for hobby stuff this week.
I'm almost done the current job but in the meantime here's a musical interlude, a song about the legendary Brian Boru by the near legendry Alan Stivell.
Tuesday, October 24, 2017
Interlude
Born and raised in the suburbs of Montreal, 5 years in the Black Watch of Canada Cadets, 5 years at the Collège militaire royal de Saint-Jean followed by 4 in the navy. 25 years with CPC in IT simultaneous with 23 years running a boarding kennel. Inherited my love of toy soldiers from my mother's father. Married with a pack of Italian Greyhounds and 3 cats. Prematurely retired and enjoying leisure to game, maintaining our 160 yr old farmhouse and just living.
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DIY do I hate it !
ReplyDeleteIts a bit like refurbishing old models.
DeleteYes, I’m not much for DIY either, but I’ve been an Alan Stivell fan for 40 years...
ReplyDeleteMe too. Still have 2 of my old LP's.
DeleteBut I'm NOT doing a 20mm HOTT Medieval Fantasy Irish army.
Ours was just 120. Sadly there was major structural and foundation work to do costing far more than we would ever recoup. We sold it on and it will likely be torn down and replaced with a McMansion. :( We now have a cute 1960s bungalow with space for a dedicated games room and the budget to do it up.
ReplyDeleteFoundation? Well I suppose dry stone is still technically a foundation. Luckily recouping costs is not on the radar, the expression "from our cold dead hands" applies. Just got to keep it standing and waterproof. I think don't think our nephew and nieces are expecting a windfall on our demise anyway.
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