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Post by tangent on Jan 30, 2014 17:25:54 GMT
Erm, Fr G.
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Post by Alvamiga on Jan 30, 2014 17:52:55 GMT
Let's hope WG doesn't feel left out now!
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Post by Mari on Jan 30, 2014 18:08:15 GMT
Sounds nice. If you ever get bored, you can come over and do some work in my house?
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Feb 3, 2014 14:35:45 GMT
Maybe a while before I have that much time spare!
Lovely evening last night: I have rejoined the uni chapel choir (I last belonged to it in 1968) and we sang evensong and procession in the Cathedral last night for the end of Candlemas. I think I may have rediscovered the singing part of my life which has been dormant for about twenty years but am keenly aware of my present limitations, my solo days are certainly over. I think I probably only have about 2/3 the volume I used to be able to muster and my pitch has dropped at least a minor third, I've gained a whole load of bass notes that were not there before. We sang Walton's Chichester Service, the Howell's As the Hart Desireth the Water Brooks and a lovely renaissance anthem Eccard Maria Wallt zum Heiligtum plus a few hymns and then wandered off down the nave to a Taizé chant.
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Apr 11, 2014 22:02:57 GMT
After six months in the New Presbytery I think I am beginning to get used to it. It is certainly much easier to keep clean which saves me a fair bit of time each week. There will have to be some building work and my architect is going through the formalities with the Barradurbury City Council, it is a fairly small kitchen/utility extension and some other tidying up. I hope to retain and enhance the surviving period but also put in the more modern kit I need.
The garden is beginning to emerge. Lots of turf went a few weeks ago and a potential veg patch has been established. The soft fruit has all gone in so I shall have to get the fruit cage built pretty soon. A new workshop has been ordered and a contractor organised to lay the slab for it. The front garden is simple but nice ... needs a lot of work on the 'lawn' to make it acceptable. Looking forward to it all.
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Post by Mari on Apr 12, 2014 16:21:37 GMT
Working with plants is nice
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Apr 14, 2014 17:50:13 GMT
Yes it is but can you image, Mari, there is not a single tulpe in the whole garden. In fact, is it a garden at all without them?
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Post by Mari on Apr 16, 2014 18:25:35 GMT
Yes. Tulips aren't that common in gardens. My neighbour downstairs has some in his garden though. As a country, we're not really big on bulbs in our gardens. I actually do have a couple of them in pots in my balcony, but mine are supposed to last all Summer and part of Fall.
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Jun 3, 2014 13:36:34 GMT
Ye Grate Shedde of Baradurbury has been erected. The electrician was with me yesterday and has set out the cabling for the lights and power sockets. I now have to do the work of sitting the styrofoam insulation and lining with plywood. Still, when the thesis is finished I shall have a nice place of retreat.
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Post by Kye on Jun 3, 2014 13:55:51 GMT
Good for you! Personally, I hope my shed-erecting days are behind me.
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Jun 9, 2014 15:40:46 GMT
One side and the window end styrofoamed ... and a thousand words written today (unfortunately needs to do another thousand to catch up from time spent styrofoamicating)...
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Jun 10, 2014 10:28:03 GMT
Arghhh ... another four thousand words to craft with a deadline of this afternoon .... scribble, scribble, scribble ...
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Post by Mari on Jun 10, 2014 16:32:24 GMT
Go go, Fr G! Go go go!
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Jun 18, 2014 18:22:30 GMT
I went, went, went and it wasn't too bad; certainly better than the last draft but not yet quite up to the standard I need to reach. I've a bad habit of describing well but analyzing insufficiently.
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Aug 3, 2014 19:33:05 GMT
My supervisor says I am a great storyteller and narrator but unfortunately this is not the skill I currently need ... goes off to give the Introduction another re-write ...
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Post by Mari on Aug 3, 2014 20:58:06 GMT
Does he also give you concrete points for correction? If you need an extra eye, I don't mind reading it for you. I'm very good at being critical. (not so good in packaging my critiques nicely I'm afraid though)
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2014 9:47:57 GMT
I'm a writing coach at university now...
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Post by tangent on Aug 10, 2014 10:46:35 GMT
In English or German?
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Aug 25, 2014 13:20:31 GMT
I have got my new workshop set up, though sadly there will be no little cavies scuttling around my feet as in the old one. I have started making new sections of trackwork for the planned massive extension of the Austrian narrow gauge model railway. What I do not understand is why right-handed turnouts (switches) should be more difficult to build than left-handed: there is absolutely no mechanical or constructional difference between them at all. Strange.
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Post by Kye on Aug 25, 2014 16:23:19 GMT
*glazes over*
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Aug 27, 2014 19:42:12 GMT
Tee hee ... I guess some people will never get the point of my hobby.
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Post by Mari on Aug 28, 2014 12:50:21 GMT
Is that the sun or a windmill?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2014 14:06:08 GMT
In German, although I would do English as well. As for the picture: looks like a windmill to me.
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Aug 30, 2014 14:01:03 GMT
No windmill I am afraid ... but there is going to be a watermill about half-way along the line. The line is inspired by a valley in the the Muehlviertel, N. Austria ... lots of watermills there - surprise, surprise ... here's the one I have built based on an example from a slightly different part of the country that is preserved at Golling(near Hallein), there is some nice video of the Golling mill and waterfalls on Yout Oob.
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Post by Mari on Sept 3, 2014 16:15:06 GMT
Looks nice
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Sept 7, 2014 22:07:59 GMT
Thank you.
Unfortunately, it is still a little noisy when running because the motor has a gear chain with brass components and they take a while to bed in but the wheel turns good and slowly; by the time it is surrounded by trees and ferns should look the part quite well. A nice man in the Czech republic makes scale ferns from laser-cut paper that are very effective and not really costly at all.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2014 7:57:52 GMT
Nice.
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Sept 9, 2014 21:44:46 GMT
I enjoy architectural modelling ... almost wish I had gone into it as a career in fact - but probably better as a hobby!
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Sept 24, 2014 21:25:29 GMT
I have had the university chapel choir's surplices hanging up in my workshop for the last few weeks, it looks sadly empty now that I have taken them back ready to be deployed tomorrow for Evensong.
Either because I am:
a. nice (or)
b. gullible
I took them home to wash, wet iron and then bleach in the Glorious Mordorian Sunshine (with added tectonic activity).
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2014 21:57:01 GMT
That is impressive. How many?
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