To be fair I've come across some very good building inspectors too. Not however the one who called round to sign off our underpinning while we were on holiday. He must have walked round the house to check that the work was finished before he completed the certificate and dropped it though the letter box. We found it at the bottom of the 6 foot deep hole which was waiting to be filled with concrete as part of the underpinning work. There were windows in the porch which he would have passed on his way to the letter box so he could easily have seen the hole and realised that the work was still in progress.
Why is it that when you're doing hard, physical work in the garden you can shake it off and carry on, but when you stop your arms feel like they've got lead weights on them about half an hour after stopping? Or is that just me?
Perhaps I shouldn't have done a weights workout after last night's hard, physical work before a hard work day and working hard again in the garden when I've not really done so much in one hit for some time. I'm feel a gardening break coming on for a few days. I do need to work on my fitness.
Why do people say gardening is a good workout when you're usual working your body asymmetrically which can cause imbalances and issues with your body long term?
This morning, 12 hours of rain and stormy stuff forecast to start around midnight. Amber warnings etc. Really looking forward to a good soaking for the garden.
Now reduced to a couple of hours and just 4mm. Meanwhile it's 10pm, 24C and feeling very muggy now. Humph!
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
On Monday a friend posted on FB showing a picture of a woman who left her dog on her car, for 30 minutes while shopping in Eastbourne Asda, the Police were called but she scarpered before they arrived. I thought that was bad enough,then speaking to my youngest daughter yesterday,she works for a very large toy store. On Monday,she was asked by a colleague roughly how long a particular customer had been on the shop,my daughter said about 30 minutes,this was later confirmed by their CCTV. Members of the public had noticed a baby screaming it its head off, alone in a car. The woman left the toy store,and went into another shop! Passers by, called the Police and surrounded the car,so she couldn't drive off. The baby was in a carrier,not a car seat,(that was one of the purchases she made,)so quiet young. The temperature was in excess of 26c. My daughter said that the air conditioning in the shop is fierce,she wears,trousers,top,and fleece,was shocked how the heat hit her when she got outside after work
I brushed down the paving around the house yesterday as the large birches outside our fence are dropping millions of seeds(?) and also lots of leaves already all over it.
Just looked out of the window and yes, the paving's completely covered again. Seems the great autumnal clear up has begun.
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Perhaps I shouldn't have done a weights workout after last night's hard, physical work before a hard work day and working hard again in the garden when I've not really done so much in one hit for some time. I'm feel a gardening break coming on for a few days. I do need to work on my fitness.
Why do people say gardening is a good workout when you're usual working your body asymmetrically which can cause imbalances and issues with your body long term?
Now reduced to a couple of hours and just 4mm. Meanwhile it's 10pm, 24C and feeling very muggy now. Humph!
Sorry. Couldn't resist
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Just looked out of the window and yes, the paving's completely covered again. Seems the great autumnal clear up has begun.
If we don't look at what happened in the past, we have no hope of a proper, good, sensible future.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...