DWM222

Lol we get various freebies from our suppliers and big customers too. Like cheap tape measures that last a day if it's lucky, plastic rulers that snap at the slightest touch lol. The only things we keep are the occasional teamugs with the suppliers logo on it their great lol. Had quite a good game of golf this afternoon. no hole-in-one unfortunately, my mate John nearly had one though lol. About 6 inches from the hole, we were all actually gutted it didn't go in. Seeing it roll straight for the hole, we were all so sure it was in. Of cause we were all just willing it to go in lol. Bit chilly to start with, but the course being quite hilly we all soon warmed up. Did you have a nice weekend?.

Your guess is correct, i'd never even attempt to put a handrail on a curved staircase lol. Ahh glad to hear you use quality tapes like Stanley, my favourite too. I remember one time my company thought they'd save money and bought a load of cheap tape measures and they lasted about two weeks before the spring retractions stopped working lol, guess the springs inside were just too weak. So a few of the guys ran over them in a forktruck in disgust lol. Only a few of us in the mill have Stanley and we guard them with our lives lol. They eventually got our point that cheap doesn't mean good and did buy some decent ones but not all Stanley. I'm sure your'll agree in the chippie world the tape is one of the most important tools and a good one should be guarded with your life lol. Well here it's very difficult to get a tape with only one measurement size on it. Actually didn't know that you were still primarily imperial there. Got a game of golf tomorrow with a few mates and this is the course i played long ago where i got my only hope-in-one, i wonder if i can do it again!, certainly gonna try for it lol.

I love anyone who makes or puts up handrail balusters lol. Unfortunately i only have handrails with walls both sides. I just think balusters look so nice. Guess it really takes great skill in putting up and getting them accurate, closest i've ever got is just replace baluster spindles. Love to have a go from scratch. Just a shame both my stair walls are supporting walls, or i would have knocked down the right wall to put up handrail and balusters. Back on the measurement debate lol, i guess it doesn't help new chippies that tape manufacturers still print both measurements on the tapes. I've always thought you should be able to buy a tape just in metric or imperial, or is that just being silly? lol.

Well i think the reason for me using both measurements is because of the orders we get. Hope your sitting comfortably, then i shall begin lol. I averagely get about 30 work orders a day and some are to be cut imperially and some cut metrically. Because some customers work in metres and others still in imperial. Like one customer may want 6 foot dead length and another may want the metric size which is 1.8 mt. Also we get imported timber in imperial and metric sizes, we call the metric packs regged as in it's been through a regging planer to a metric size. Which does make a lot of difference when choosing which pack to use. Like using an 8 in wide pack or the metric 200mm pack. Hope your still with me DWM222? lol. Basically what i'm saying is the company using both measuresments. Not actually sure which one i prefer though. I guess both measurements come in handy in their own way. Confused? i am.

My dining room is Parqueted lol, maybe i should explain lol. My front room is also the dining room, it was two rooms, but i knocked down the dividing wall to have one big room. I like big spacious rooms and i dine at the far end of the room. Just out of curiosity, are you a metre man? or an imperial man?, sounds silly but when i measure long lengths i read in feet and in short like making small parts i measure in mm, do you use both measures?.

Glad to hear the new *** is coming along ok lol. I have Parquet in the hallway and front room, i just love the Parquet look and it's hardwearing, beats carpets anyday, expensive but worth every penny. Hope i didn't miss anything at this lunch with this incredibly beautiful girl lol.

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Well i hope your new *** is better than the one you gave me lol. It's actually almost rare for us in Kent to get so much snow, just glad it's gone now, glad to here your busy as you want to be, nice when you can have it like that.

Isn't eating and sleeping fun!!, is for me! lol. Well i like to get a game of golf in at the weekends with a few mates. Still trying for my second hole-in-one lol. Also working on a coffee table for my sister, i'm actually using Parquet flooring blocks for the top lol. Sound strange i know but you would not believe how unique and beautiful it can look. I had made one for my late sister many years ago and she loved it because it looked so different to the usual coffee tables you see in the shops, i make all my own units and tables. I never buy from shops mainly because i can never find the right unit that i like, so i just make my own. The only drawback is some of the units i've made usually take me a couple of months, i like to think time well spent. You ever made any units or tables for your home?, i'm sure you have the skills being a chippy.

Yes it arrived under the cover of darkness lol and i give it a good scratch everytime i go into the shed, for good luck lol. I'd like to know what you've got to scratch now!. I can always send it back if you miss it. Neighbours cat gave it a sniff and after it come round, it just wandered off shaking it's head, thinking i'm not gonna sniff that sorry old *** again lol. Things are going ok in my part of merry old England, apart from when we had the bad snow, hate driving in snow and especially on ice. Had a skids here and there, but luckly didn't manage to hit anything. Us English are just never ready for bad snowfalls, mainly on the transport side complete chaos reigns. Workwise pretty much the same, apart from hurting my back last week on a forktruck. I ran over a 4x4 bolster, which i didn't see and you problably know forktrucks have no suspension and it gave me a huge jolt as i went over it. I have last week off and i've been ok this week. I've like to get hold of the idiot who left a bolster lying in the alleyway though, i'd cut his hands off with a crosscutter lol. Ok maybe that's a little extreme, maybe just hit him with that bolster and maybe he'll be more careful in future lol. How are you doing in your part of the world?, hope you've been busy with plenty of work.

Same here it has been quite a while since I have watched. Do you remember the Jim Henson characters I always liked his sketches. The might favog (sp) is the only character name I came remember.