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Westerlind
- 2014-10-05 22:50
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| Dunno - I say "Hooters". |
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Westerlind
- 2014-10-05 22:40
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| Never mind. You'll get a warm welcome with both rum and gin by my Romanian hostess. |
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Westerlind
- 2014-10-05 22:10
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| Why wait? Bring your trowels and come visit me, my friend. |
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Westerlind
- 2014-10-05 22:02
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| Soon I will. I don't really enjoy the work - but I know I'll be satisfied when I'm finished. Around year 2112. |
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Westerlind
- 2014-10-05 21:49
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| I believe anguish is the purpose of all do-it-yourself stuff. |
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Westerlind
- 2014-10-05 21:38
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| Ah, forgot to say: I'm putting mortar only to those areas exposed to air: about 70-80 cm on one short side and 170 cm on the other (with a margin, so about 90 and 180 cm). But still, this makes some anxiety-provoking 100 000 square metres to crawl around and smear, screw up and scream. |
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Westerlind
- 2014-10-05 21:19
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| Well, they told me to put on stone imitation boards, but I realized that would need much experience to not look tacky, so I asked if not chicken wire and mortar would do: "Oh yeah, that's the best - seals everything much better. But much more work." So, as always, I decided for the most tiresome way |
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Westerlind
- 2014-10-05 21:09
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So I did. Then nothing happened.
Until two years later - last month, when I finally whipped myself to submission and began putting chicken wire on the styrofoam and then applying mortar. This is so f-cking hard. I'm a handy man, but probably the slowest mason in Sweden. |
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Westerlind
- 2014-10-05 21:03
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| Weel, I've spent the last weeks trying to finish the outside shape up of my house. Two years ago, when buying it, I had to dig up the incoming communal water pipe and install a new. As we did this the man with the excavator adviced me to use the opportunity and put some styrofoam on the foundation. |
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Westerlind
- 2014-09-27 23:27
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Cheers, mon ami.
Ce soir, je ne bois pas de rhum. Je suis assis ici par le feu d'un gin tonic. Gordon's - le seul et unique. |
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Duffster
- 2014-09-17 09:08
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| YASS!! Mon then ya bas! I blame Salmond! |
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Sympathique
- 2014-09-16 22:17
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| So you're now a Courbet fan? |
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Sympathique
- 2014-09-16 21:04
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| Then are you familiar with "L'Origine du monde" by Gustave Courbet? |
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