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  • Flay
    Full Member
    • Mar 2007
    • 5795

    Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
    ... of course this is the day our builders were planning to lay the concrete work in the back yard
    'Ang on. Concrete and a back yard at Chateau Vinny?

    Shooorly not? :
    Last edited by Flay; 14-11-14, 15:14.
    Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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    • vinteuil
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 12800

      Originally posted by Flay View Post
      'Ang on. Concrete and a back yard at Chateau Vinny?

      Shooorly not? :
      ... well. it's the concrete awaiting the carrara marble for the back yard next to the double-flight of steps leading down to the western lawns and on to the terrace with the gazebo looking over the upper lake towards the grotto and the Greek temple...

      We do things in style in Shepherd's Bush, you know...



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      Last edited by vinteuil; 14-11-14, 15:52.

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      • Nick Armstrong
        Host
        • Nov 2010
        • 26525

        Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View Post
        The weather terrible here, too


        Surrey Police said many drivers suffered damaged tyres after the road near Leatherhead fell in early this morning. Traffic inched forward on the motorway causing a snake of traffic around 15 miles long.
        "...the isle is full of noises,
        Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
        Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
        Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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        • Nick Armstrong
          Host
          • Nov 2010
          • 26525

          Originally posted by Flay View Post
          'Ang on. Concrete and a back yard at Chateau Vinny?

          Shooorly not? :
          Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
          ... well. it's the concrete awaiting the carrara marble for the back yard next to the double-flight of steps leading down to the western lawns and on to the terrace with the gazebo looking over the upper lake towards the grotto and the Greek temple...

          We do things in style in Shepherd's Bush, you know...
          Ah vindepays, you beat me to it... I was just loading up a pic of Château Vinteuil, with the comment:

          Those balustrades don't support themselves, you know....



          "...the isle is full of noises,
          Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
          Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
          Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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          • Flay
            Full Member
            • Mar 2007
            • 5795

            Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
            ... well. it's the concrete awaiting the carrara marble for the back yard next to the double-flight of steps leading down to the western lawns and on to the terrace with the gazebo looking over the upper lake towards the grotto and the Greek temple...

            We do things in style in Shepherd's Bush, you know...
            Brilliant, Vinny and Calibs!

            Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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            • Nick Armstrong
              Host
              • Nov 2010
              • 26525




              (Observant readers will of course have recognised that big brother's pied-à-terre appears to be closely modelled on the Château de Sceaux... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teau_de_Sceaux )
              "...the isle is full of noises,
              Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
              Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
              Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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              • mangerton
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 3346

                Dreadful weather in these parts, too. Left Dundee for Glasgow this morning on a cheap over-55 rail ticket to do this.

                It was a fascinating experience, although unfortunately the heavy rain meant we couldn't go on the roof.

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                • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                  Gone fishin'
                  • Sep 2011
                  • 30163

                  Weather as forecast in these 'ere parts - lots of rain this morning, easing off around noon and dry with sunny patches in the afternoon.

                  What was not forecast was that, at noon precisely, the rain stopped, but took an encore half-an-hour later, just as I'd got past the half-way stage in the "healthy walk" between my house and the nearest Post Office!
                  [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                  • teamsaint
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 25202

                    Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                    ... I think Caliban is confusing my gaff with my younger brother's pad at Moulinsart -

                    https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=mo...tm%3B350%3B217
                    Oh dear, Not having to open to the public, surely?...........
                    I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

                    I am not a number, I am a free man.

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                    • BBMmk2
                      Late Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 20908

                      Bit of a mixed bag today!
                      Don’t cry for me
                      I go where music was born

                      J S Bach 1685-1750

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                      • Anna

                        Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View Post
                        Bit of a mixed bag today!
                        A mixed week - today is so warm, 14.4° and lovely sunshine, tipped it down all night and yesterday. I've been preoccupied due to garden min-makeover having waited 5 weeks for workmen it's finally taken place during the three dry days this week. There's been felling, thinning, clearing and the hazel has been coppiced. Finally I have my uninterrupted view back again. Lots of final clearing (raking up) for me to do this weekend, so hope it'll stay dry for a few days.

                        Bit worried about the snow in Eastern US. Don't we get what they have 10 days later?

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                        • eighthobstruction
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 6433

                          Down on my knees earlier in the week, individually picking up Ash sticks and Lilac dropped in a Zen like manner in my raked Dog Zen gravel garden....I prefer my own random....control....

                          Cold here ....electric blue crochetted mohair blanket seeing action....
                          bong ching

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                          • Nick Armstrong
                            Host
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 26525

                            Anna and eightho !!!!

                            It's like old times!

                            OT: dingy old day in London
                            "...the isle is full of noises,
                            Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                            Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                            Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                            • Anna

                              Originally posted by eighthobstruction View Post
                              Down on my knees earlier in the week, individually picking up Ash sticks and Lilac dropped in a Zen like manner in my raked Dog Zen gravel garden....I prefer my own random....control....
                              eightho!! How lovely to see you once again! Well, I couldn't exercise my own random control - too much wood cutting and getting up A ladders and swinging from the branches, plus I don't have the equipment! The guy that did it - never seen such a collection of Stihl tools, 4 chainsaws of various sorts, a telescopic pole pruner and hedge trimmer ..... A lovely pile of logs was produced ready for - his Mum's woodburner!
                              I too have a tiny Zen patch but I forget to rake it in mystical circles .......
                              OT: Still a lovely day, sun just producing golden rays as it sinks behind the hill.

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