• Hi all and welcome to TheWoodHaven2 brought into the 21st Century, kicking and screaming! We all have Alasdair to thank for the vast bulk of the heavy lifting to get us here, no more so than me because he's taken away a huge burden of responsibility from my shoulders and brought us to this new shiny home, with all your previous content (hopefully) still intact! Please peruse and feed back. There is still plenty to do, like changing the colour scheme, adding the banner graphic, tweaking the odd setting here and there so I have added a new thread in the 'Technical Issues, Bugs and Feature Requests' forum for you to add any issues you find, any missing settings or just anything you'd like to see added/removed from the feature set that Xenforo offers. We will get to everything over the coming weeks so please be patient, but add anything at all to the thread I mention above and we promise to get to them over the next few days/weeks/months. In the meantime, please enjoy!

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    pink mortar stone wall

    Hum. I am not a building surveyor (I have reluctantly associated with them when I was working), but on some of the red sandstone buildings up here red mortar is specified. It’s lime based, but the colour is either colourant or what they call ‘red sand’. That might be your pink. It’s still sharp...
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    Parcel Forwarding Services - Europe to UK

    This is not directly useful, other than a basic principle. Some years ago I needed to send 23 copies of one of my investment analyses down to the Great Wen. Syndicated loan. I got my secretaries to get costs for couriers. Astronomical. I ended up getting one of my junior staff a flight down to...
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    On this day.......

    That's nice. Machined or hand tooled ? (I wouldn't know where to start with the latter; or indeed the former)
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    On this day.......

    How kind of you to say so. Pins second as far as I recall. And with the insouciance born of ignorance lining it up didn’t appear to cause any problems. It finally finished up looking like this. Present for my partner. Seemed to go OK. And first prize in the village show. (Village about 200...
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    Parcel Forwarding Services - Europe to UK

    Mmm, that is what I would recommend. We've done it before with some good friends in krautland and the land of the turnip. And in reverse. Although my partner may have unintentionally underestimated the declared values. Could you send it to a poste restante, and ping over on the cheapest...
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    On this day.......

    4 years ago on 27th I was finishing this box. 28th more finished. Other photographs from this day over the years reveal that I was in Bruges, Brussels, Sweden or at an early cricket match. Or sitting in the garden in the Borders. I will spare you those.
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    New wood acquisition - Lignum Vitae

    That is no way to refer to an Administrator.
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    Vegetarian / vegan cookbook recommendations?

    Well the veggie thai books I mentioned don’t use fish sauce or shrimp paste (although the thais themselves aren’t that particular). Coriander (pak chii) is a difficult one though. I have been told – with how much veracity I cannot say – that it is a genetic thing, rather like being able (or not)...
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    Vegetarian / vegan cookbook recommendations?

    How can any one not like lamb? However, if you don’t you don’t. We are not by any means vegetarians. But we don’t actually eat much meat. Because my normal cooking is Asian. Which uses very little meat. But I am probably teaching my grandmother to suck eggs (another way of going veggie, I...
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    Light restoration of an Ulmia Reform Hobel

    Shouldn’t this cue a discussion on what angle of slope is best, how to make it slippery enough and other vital questions?
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    Light restoration of an Ulmia Reform Hobel

    You may remember this one I made a few years back. Does that make me a pre-influencer? Ahead of the curve? Or just strange. Doesn't have an adjustable mouth, although that would be easy to change. I did a write up at the time, and I remember someone saying they couldn't see how it...
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    How many days in a fortnight?

    You will excuse my French (learnt in Africa, many moons ago), but don’t semaine and hebdomadaire both refer to weeks, and are both based on seven. Yet quinzaine. Still, if all language were logical it would be dull. Like Esperanto. And we would not be able to laugh at English people trying to...
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    The view from my dining room

    How would that go down with your partner? Isn’t she a horticulturalist? What you need is staff. Makes it a whole lot easier. Pricier. But easier. Actually in Sweden the limited amount of grass there was only need mowing about 4 times a year. The moss and the conifer forest sort of looked...
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    The view from my dining room

    Very bad dandruff. Old photographs, as I said. I've managed to bugger up the hard drive on my former main computer. Here is the house from the air. Or google map. The second red circle is where we used to moor the boat. About 30 m elevation down from the house.
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    The view from my dining room

    I can see your point. Something like our southern terrace? (only looks onto a burn, mind you). Or our place in Tyresö (no longer ours now – bloody politicians - but the view was spectacular). Deck to the left hand side. I'll annoy people with more photographs when I get access to my...
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    The view from my dining room

    Simply because I do very little of it myself. I have helped the shepherd out from time to time with strays and such (as an aside, sheep have to be some of the stupidest animals on the planet. I remember fishing a lamb out of Prince Charlie’s well (I think every well in Scotland has to be called...
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    Post a photo of the last thing you made...

    Were you asking me Andy? If so, well the answer is no. I’m eccentric but not insane. I helped, mind you, but employed a chap from the village. And a mechanical splitter. Worth every penny. As Belloc said: ‘It is the business of the wealthy man To give employment to the artisan’...
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    The view from my dining room

    Simply to show that the old country still has some worthwhile scenery; my dining room has two sets of windows. To the north: And to the east: I should add the photographs are a couple of years old, and not quite at the same time of year. The trees are just coming into leaf now. We...
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    Post a photo of the last thing you made...

    Well, possibly Mike. We live in a drafty, energy inefficient edifice. On a windy hilltop. On the floor on which we live we have four open fires, and two stoves. Including the Dovre (aka the behemoth), which can give out something like 10 kW. Which is needed to warm up the tower. That’s a lot...
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    Post a photo of the last thing you made...

    Nae, this is a log pile. Lasted about one winter. But it is our main source of heat.
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