Room with a View

Well I've had quite a lazy weekend in many ways. I've spent a lot of time watching episodes of Cold Feet on TV. Don't get me wrong, I've caught up on the laundry and ironing. Did about 4 loads over the weekend. Then this arvo about 2 o'clock I decided I had better go and do something in the garden. But first things first. Some shots of the Chook House structural woes. Still better that it happened now and not when its occupied.

Front shot


shot through the front window showing the big bend in the back


Side shot showing it leaning against the fence



Here is the chook coop stand transformed into a temp workbench while I work on the coop. The 'table top' is in fact the boards I cut for the bottom of the box section.



Here is a closeup of the sides I made. There are actually 4 of these—the other two seperate the compartments. You'll see what I mean in a minute



Here is the nest box so far with all the bits screwed together. I managed to make it out of bits of wood I had hanging about the yard. Most of it had been exposed to the elements for a couple of years so some were quite warped. I hope the chooks aren't fussy!



This shot nicely shows the box bit ready to go onto the stand bit



Here is a dry assembly. The two bits aren't joined together yet, but it gives you a good idea about how it will look. There will be a hinged roof lid of course. also you can see the two bits jutting out the front that will have a rail going across the front so the girls will have somewhere to stand when they are checking into the motel. There will also be a removeable board across the front that they will have to step over to get in. By making it removeable it will be much easier to clean out the boxes from time to time and replace with fresh litter.


I have finished the lectures on the Age of Pericles and I've moved onto a series of 12 lectures on the Iliad. I have a nice copy of the Iliad coming from amazon along with Bonhoffer's letters from prison and a big pile of rafael sabatini.

I hope the girls are very happy here. I am pretty happy with the progress I made in a pretty short time. Especially since I wasn't working off a plan and I was making it up as I went along.

I also finished the 6th Frietz Lieber Lankhmar series book this weekend and on to the 7th—The last series of adventres of Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser!

Many of you will be amused to know the Collingwood got trounced by Richmond on Firday night. The only other team Richmond have defeated this year was the Holbrook Country Women's Association over 80s I think, but Collingwood being Collingwood, it would have been too easy to win the easiest game of the year and move into 'the four' for the finals. And thanks to everyone who took the time to SMS me the 'good news'. Congrats to Jamie, glad Collingwood could help out this year.

Just saw Die Hard 4.0. Was pretty good fun actually I quite enjoyed it.

As a last note, I hope Andy B is feeling better and getting over the flu.