Billy Young's Blog - Posts Tagged "bawbag"
16th December 2011
Calum helped me get the garden hut window fixed. It wasn’t as dry as I hoped it would be nut it wasn’t too bad. It went quite smoothly for me. I cut the Perspex in doors to save us from the rain and by the time that was done the rain had lightened so we got the window in without the usual drama that DIY causes.
It’s funny how when it comes to DIY that there is normally unexpected problems that arise. This so often then throws a spanner in the works. It doesn’t matter if we’ve planned out carefully everything that need done to do the job. It just takes one unforeseen detail to create mayhem. For that one minor thing things seem to take a dark journey into frustration. Eventually somehow we finally find our way to the light of completion when at last we can claim success.
The worst times are of course when the wife has already told you what you need to do next which will complete the project. She will then immediately declare that you should have been listening to her all along and you would have finished it an hour ago. Of course she had been standing out in the garden talking to the neighbours at that time, which was luck as that was when everything went south, hehehe.
Well as I said there was none of that this time and the window is holding up well as we had another bad bit of weather during the week. Of course it wasn’t as bad as BawBag but it did test the repair, which just leaves me to paint the hut in the spring.
This weekend I have overtime at work. That’s what comes with the season though. Of course next Friday I can look forward to having four days off. So when I think of that tomorrow doesn’t seem so depressing. Yes I know I didn’t have to take the overtime but with the price of heating these days it’s leaving a small shortage in other areas of the house hold budget and Christmas stretches everything. Magz is managing but some extra earnings from the overtime will help after Santa has been.
It’s funny how when it comes to DIY that there is normally unexpected problems that arise. This so often then throws a spanner in the works. It doesn’t matter if we’ve planned out carefully everything that need done to do the job. It just takes one unforeseen detail to create mayhem. For that one minor thing things seem to take a dark journey into frustration. Eventually somehow we finally find our way to the light of completion when at last we can claim success.
The worst times are of course when the wife has already told you what you need to do next which will complete the project. She will then immediately declare that you should have been listening to her all along and you would have finished it an hour ago. Of course she had been standing out in the garden talking to the neighbours at that time, which was luck as that was when everything went south, hehehe.
Well as I said there was none of that this time and the window is holding up well as we had another bad bit of weather during the week. Of course it wasn’t as bad as BawBag but it did test the repair, which just leaves me to paint the hut in the spring.
This weekend I have overtime at work. That’s what comes with the season though. Of course next Friday I can look forward to having four days off. So when I think of that tomorrow doesn’t seem so depressing. Yes I know I didn’t have to take the overtime but with the price of heating these days it’s leaving a small shortage in other areas of the house hold budget and Christmas stretches everything. Magz is managing but some extra earnings from the overtime will help after Santa has been.
