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The Bodmin Gaol Experience

Posted 2010-09-11 09:10PM


As I was in Cornwall, I couldn’t resist a trip across the moor to see Bodmin Gaol. Apparently, Yvette Fielding from Ghost Hunters found it the scariest place she had ever visited, so I had to go…

There is something darkly fascinating about old, eighteenth century ruined prisons and this one had a very interesting history as it was first  a normal prison, then a naval prison and finally a psychiatric hospital or nut house as my pc friends would call it.
Well it said it was dog friendly so I took Fizz too as he loves out sniffing new places.

We went through the old high gates and the first thing I saw was this family running across the cobbled courtyard with the mum screaming,

“Quick, they are going to execute a sandbag!”
A bit bizarre or what…

Well the hanging bell sounded so Fizz and I headed for the execution pit. It was just like a large shed at the corner of the courtyard but was slightly different too most sheds (I hope) as it had a noose and a false bottom to the bit underneath the rope…. Apparently, with a 7 feet drop!

We then had a 20 minute lecture on how to hang a person successfully and the origins of the regulations re:hanging. 

This really sucked the enjoyment out of watching the sandbag hang but I did learn that Pierrepointe the first hangman (slightly weird) was not a very successful hangman (I had no idea you could be a bad executioner but there you go). 
Then we went into the prison itself. It’s a semi ruined, slightly musty smelling building set on 6 floors, accessed by steep stone winding staircases.
I expected it to be a bit  like the London Dungeons but it was more like your typical English Heritage  ancient ruin.
Unfortunately, even though the prison was dog friendly, Fizz decided it wasn’t, he put his tail firmly between his legs and would not move.

This was halfway up the staircase, with lots of people waiting behind us…. So for the rest of the visit I had to carry the coward, a dead weight of over a stone, which got very tiring, very quickly!

The scariest part of the gaol was the lowest floor, below ground level, it smelt and was really dingy.
The cells were bare and dark with tiny windows set really high up in the walls. On one of the walls was a photo of the doctor and the psychiatric nurses, none of their patients could of looked less normal.... than those severe, menacing  faces.

Well, Fizz started getting very heavy at this point so we went back up to the ground level cells, where they had the naughty plaques up, saying who had been locked up and why.
There were a few murderers,
A boy had stolen 2 ducks,
Potatoes had been stolen,
Vagrants locked up and
Someone had cursed a woman and
Another woman had been arrested for befriending fairies.

Not exactly, crimes to make Yvette’s’ blood run cold, I hope!

One man was sentenced for 3 months for loving sheep too much, I thought OMG  how embarrassing! His poor family are going to be forever embarassed about that! LOL!

Then I came to the next plaque.

Looked at the name, it was CB, one of my ancestors on my Mum’s side.

Transported to Australia.

For offences against sheep.

Oops! How shameful is that!
It’s good to have your ancestors transported  to Australia if they were something cool like a smuggler or highwayman but sheep fancier…. Ooh! That’s just gross.
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The Eden Project:: Expect the Unexpected.

Posted 2010-09-03 04:09PM




You can’t go to Cornwall without visiting the Eden Project, its almost compulsory...
I went when it was first built and it was amazing, all these plants from all over the world in growing in 2 huge biomes.
Its fascinating seeing what plants you get which resources from, I always think the banana tree looks beautiful, a big stalk of bananas and the red flower underneath.
The flags are also really bright, interesting and almost Chinese in the style, waving you into the centre.Then you have the weird gigantic models in the gardens and the gorgeous lavender gardens.
I walked passed some horrified American kids in the lavender gardens... their Mom was stealing lavender flowers complete with roots.
Parents really let you down sometimes...
So all in all it’s a good little trip… apart from in the height of summer when half the world is there! Hmmmm..
We made it through the huge entrance hall, the water activities and the eateries.
Then joined the tropical biome queue.
We went around the whole biome in a large slow moving snake. No time to stand and take pictures, or explore the exhibits we just had to keep trudging upwards through the trees and plants, in the heat and humidity, its quite hard to do! The funniest thing was seeing this family from Hong Kong charge into the cool down tent half way through the exhibit, even though it’s probably hotter in Hong Kong!
So basically we did the tropical biome in 20 minutes, queuing up in the entrance hall took longer!
We were going to have food next, to lengthen out the trip a bit but the whole food court was a throbbing mass of people, so we headed over to the temperate biome.
This was slightly less packed but there’s also far less to see as you are talking about desert and scrub landplants and the funny thing about those areas is that they are quite empty…
We walked past the olives and the orange trees that you usually see in Spain and I thought,
“ Damn, Wish I’d gone to Spain this year!”

I don’t know if that was what everyone else was thinking but it was quite quiet in there…
Suddenly, the tanoy sounded with this weird two tone noise and everyone stopped moving, it was like something out of The Stepford Wives. The noise sounded again and this disembodied voice said,

“Attention, attention please, you may be asked to evacuate the building.”

Then out of the corner of my eye I saw men with walkie talkies rushing into this little room, off from the main exhibits.

Well that got everyone moving again.

2 seconds later the whole exhibit was empty!
LOL

So much for our relaxing, stress free day at Eden!

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The Eden Project:: Expect the Unexpected.

Posted 2010-09-03 04:09PM



You can’t go to Cornwall without visiting the Eden Project, its almost compulsory...
I went when it was first built and it was amazing, all these plants from all over the world in growing in 2 huge biomes.
Its fascinating seeing what plants you get which resources from, I always think the banana tree looks beautiful, a big stalk of bananas and the red flower underneath.
The flags are also really bright, interesting and almost Chinese in the style, waving you into the centre.Then you have the weird gigantic models in the gardens and the gorgeous lavender gardens.
I walked passed some horrified American kids in the lavender gardens... their Mom was stealing lavender flowers complete with roots.
Parents really let you down sometimes...
So all in all it’s a good little trip… apart from in the height of summer when half the world is there! Hmmmm..
We made it through the huge entrance hall, the water activities and the eateries.
Then joined the tropical biome queue.
We went around the whole biome in a large slow moving snake. No time to stand and take pictures, or explore the exhibits we just had to keep trudging upwards through the trees and plants, in the heat and humidity, its quite hard to do! The funniest thing was seeing this family from Hong Kong charge into the cool down tent half way through the exhibit, even though it’s probably hotter in Hong Kong!
So basically we did the tropical biome in 20 minutes, queuing up in the entrance hall took longer!
We were going to have food next, to lengthen out the trip a bit but the whole food court was a throbbing mass of people, so we headed over to the temperate biome.
This was slightly less packed but there’s also far less to see as you are talking about desert and scrub landplants and the funny thing about those areas is that they are quite empty…
We walked past the olives and the orange trees that you usually see in Spain and I thought,
“ Damn, Wish I’d gone to Spain this year!”

I don’t know if that was what everyone else was thinking but it was quite quiet in there…
Suddenly, the tanoy sounded with this weird two tone noise and everyone stopped moving, it was like something out of The Stepford Wives. The noise sounded again and this disembodied voice said,

“Attention, attention please, you may be asked to evacuate the building.”

Then out of the corner of my eye I saw men with walkie talkies rushing into this little room, off from the main exhibits.

Well that got everyone moving again.

2 seconds later the whole exhibit was empty!
LOL

So much for our relaxing, stress free day at Eden!
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Dog Unit Part 2: Fizz Is Ill

Posted 2010-08-25 05:11PM


Well the next morning when we woke up things seemed a bit better. The mould smell was noticeable but not as choking as the night before. The cocoa butter, wide open windows and baking heat were working!
On closer inspection the fully self catering kitchen really only catered for soup and baked beans to be cooked... on the cooker hobs.
Then there was the big problem with toast for breakfast... there was no toaster, no grill pan or even a frying pan!
However, we resolved this problem quite easily putting a dinner plate with said bread on top of a saucepan and sliding it precariously, under the grill plates!
The only down side to this was you could only make one piece of toast at a time. So breakfast was really long…

The next problem was the water, which came out of the taps a rather curious shade of yellow, even boiling it for tea tasted really weird!
So we went to the “holiday village” shop in search of fresh water and air…
at the shop there was a surprising number of deodorises so we choose a couple and then bought as many of the ultra expensive tiny bottles of water as we could.
Then we charged back to the Dog Unit. The smell that hit us was even worse than the mould smell last night…

Fizz had an upset tummy.
On the living room carpet.
(I fleeting thought of what other dogs had done on that carpet, crossed my mind and I made a mental note to keep my shoes on at all times.)

It was not a pretty sight... like a dark orange milkshake and poor Fizz was crawling around on his belly in shame.
I felt terrible, Fizz had been poisoned!
I had filled his bowl with water from the tap!

I had thought he would be safe as he drinks from bird baths, puddle water, any sort of farm water running down the lanes but obviously this was a whole different ball game. His dog food, really expensive, organic, hyper allergenic chicken and rice, remained untouched, he must have been in a bad way to leave that alone.
Poor Fizz.
Well I immediately threw away the contaminated water and filled his bowl up with a couple of bottles of the ultra expensive non yellow water.
Then I started trying to find the nearest vets.

It was then that the pot of cocoa butter was found.
We had left it out to mask some of the mould odours and now it was almost empty with deep tongue shaped gouge marks in it.
Fizz had eaten the cocoa butter.
And now he had tummy ache.
And we were left to spend 6 more days in the Dog Unit, which not only stank of mould but dog diarrhea.
This holiday could only get better…
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Dog Unit Part 2: Fizz Is Ill

Posted 2010-08-25 05:11PM


Well the next morning when we woke up things seemed a bit better. The mould smell was noticeable but not as choking as the night before. The cocoa butter, wide open windows and baking heat were working!
On closer inspection the fully self catering kitchen really only catered for soup and baked beans to be cooked... on the cooker hobs.
Then there was the big problem with toast for breakfast... there was no toaster, no grill pan or even a frying pan!
However, we resolved this problem quite easily putting a dinner plate with said bread on top of a saucepan and sliding it precariously, under the grill plates!
The only down side to this was you could only make one piece of toast at a time. So breakfast was really long…

The next problem was the water, which came out of the taps a rather curious shade of yellow, even boiling it for tea tasted really weird!
So we went to the “holiday village” shop in search of fresh water and air…
at the shop there was a surprising number of deodorises so we choose a couple and then bought as many of the ultra expensive tiny bottles of water as we could.
Then we charged back to the Dog Unit. The smell that hit us was even worse than the mould smell last night…

Fizz had an upset tummy.
On the living room carpet.
(I fleeting thought of what other dogs had done on that carpet, crossed my mind and I made a mental note to keep my shoes on at all times.)

It was not a pretty sight... like a dark orange milkshake and poor Fizz was crawling around on his belly in shame.
I felt terrible, Fizz had been poisoned!
I had filled his bowl with water from the tap!

I had thought he would be safe as he drinks from bird baths, puddle water, any sort of farm water running down the lanes but obviously this was a whole different ball game. His dog food, really expensive, organic, hyper allergenic chicken and rice, remained untouched, he must have been in a bad way to leave that alone.
Poor Fizz.
Well I immediately threw away the contaminated water and filled his bowl up with a couple of bottles of the ultra expensive non yellow water.
Then I started trying to find the nearest vets.

It was then that the pot of cocoa butter was found.
We had left it out to mask some of the mould odours and now it was almost empty with deep tongue shaped gouge marks in it.
Fizz had eaten the cocoa butter.
And now he had tummy ache.
And we were left to spend 6 more days in the Dog Unit, which not only stank of mould but dog diarrhea.
This holiday could only get better…
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Dog Unit 87

Posted 2010-08-14 10:08AM



 The Dog Unit!

Well the holiday season has come upon us, so in that great
British tradition, I goggled budget holidays in Cornwall….
I came up with an excellent holiday deal… 
a week in a woodland holiday village  in St Ives for
 £600.00 for 4 people including the dog. 
On the site there were happy couples taking equally happy dogs for
walkies through woods, excited children playing in the playground, 
teenagers enjoying the night time entertainment.
It sounded too good to be true!
And it was…
We arrived an hour early and were told to go and wait in the
car park until the appropriate time as the none of the holiday village facilities
were open.
So basically, no lunch for us then!
 I then reported in at
the correct time only to find our designated chalet was dogless and I thought
about saying its ok Fizz was a cat, but thought better of it.  She didn’t really look the type to have a
sense of humour.
After half an hour of still foodless ringing around the
receptionist beamed triumphantly and handed us a little silver key!
She had found us a dog unit.
Dog Unit 87 to be exact.
At this point I began to get slightly concerned as I didn’t
want to spend all holiday in a kennel!
Well we then bought some food at the now open shop and drove
off to find out little dog unit. The woods were lovely and green and littered
with  dainty little wooden chalets. 
At the end of the woods sat the dog units. At first sight
the little enclave of dog units looked welcoming. On second second sight,
slightly less so…
Not only was the paint peeling off the wood, the wood was
peeling off the wood too. You could see piles of it on the floor where it
seemed to be composting down nicely. Also the chalets seemed to be built on
stilts: there was a one foot crawl space underneath each chalet,  which seeing as we were in a wood must have been home to a rich variety of wildlife, which is ok as long as long as no carcasses
were decaying down there. Talking of smells I duly noted no mainline drainage!
This was a little alarming but I thought ok its only
cosmetic issues, I can cope with that.
Bravely, we went in…
Wham!!!!
The smell hit us.
Decades old mould, you have never smelt anything like it.
 It was burning and choking.
Even Fizz didn’t want to go in and explore the chalet!
I investigated every room and when I say every room the
whole chalet could have fitted into out living room! The bathroom was so small
you could sit on the toilet and clean your teeth in the sink without even
stretching. The bath was a hip bath and was a few shades yellower than white.
Also on the toilet seat there was a really scary looking black hair….
The worst thing was the smell though, it permeated every
room in the chalet or Dog Unit 87 as it was unaffectionately named.
I kept thinking about House and how one of the first things
he always does is send his team to peoples apartments to check for mould and I
thought, they seriously wouldn’t have to look hard here!
 All sorts of fungal
infections entered into  my brain and I
thought OMG will we make it till morning?
Well drastic measures were needed. I opened every window in
kennel 87 and turned the heaters up to roasting temperatures: forget global
warming this was an emergency.
We then got some beautiful smelling cocoa butter body butter
and smeared it on the dodgy grey sofa set.
It started to be breatheable but still grossly unpleasant.
We went to sleep and I thought tomorrow night its going to
be Premier Inn time!
I was a bit alarmed about leaving all the windows wide open
in the woods in the middle of nowhere but it was either that or choke to
death…
Then, in the middle of the night, Fizz started barking his
warning howling bark
By my bedroom window I heard trudging, crunching feet going
backwards and forwards.
I was terrified, its going to be some mad  woodman-type
nutter with an axe and a deeply anti social attitude!
Timidly, I looked through the crack in the curtain and saw
the night time intruder!
It was a grim looking, old woman in a white vest with huge
red shorts. Taking cases to a big car
with its head lights blazing.
Eventually, it was packed, doors slammed and the 4x4 sped
away into the night.
The first inmates had escaped from the Dog Units!
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Dog Unit 87

Posted 2010-08-14 10:08AM



 The Dog Unit!

Well the holiday season has come upon us, so in that great
British tradition, I goggled budget holidays in Cornwall….
I came up with an excellent holiday deal… 
a week in a woodland holiday village  in St Ives for
 £600.00 for 4 people including the dog. 
On the site there were happy couples taking equally happy dogs for
walkies through woods, excited children playing in the playground, 
teenagers enjoying the night time entertainment.
It sounded too good to be true!
And it was…
We arrived an hour early and were told to go and wait in the
car park until the appropriate time as the none of the holiday village facilities
were open.
So basically, no lunch for us then!
 I then reported in at
the correct time only to find our designated chalet was dogless and I thought
about saying its ok Fizz was a cat, but thought better of it.  She didn’t really look the type to have a
sense of humour.
After half an hour of still foodless ringing around the
receptionist beamed triumphantly and handed us a little silver key!
She had found us a dog unit.
Dog Unit 87 to be exact.
At this point I began to get slightly concerned as I didn’t
want to spend all holiday in a kennel!
Well we then bought some food at the now open shop and drove
off to find out little dog unit. The woods were lovely and green and littered
with  dainty little wooden chalets. 
At the end of the woods sat the dog units. At first sight
the little enclave of dog units looked welcoming. On second second sight,
slightly less so…
Not only was the paint peeling off the wood, the wood was
peeling off the wood too. You could see piles of it on the floor where it
seemed to be composting down nicely. Also the chalets seemed to be built on
stilts: there was a one foot crawl space underneath each chalet,  which seeing as we were in a wood must have been home to a rich variety of wildlife, which is ok as long as long as no carcasses
were decaying down there. Talking of smells I duly noted no mainline drainage!
This was a little alarming but I thought ok its only
cosmetic issues, I can cope with that.
Bravely, we went in…
Wham!!!!
The smell hit us.
Decades old mould, you have never smelt anything like it.
 It was burning and choking.
Even Fizz didn’t want to go in and explore the chalet!
I investigated every room and when I say every room the
whole chalet could have fitted into out living room! The bathroom was so small
you could sit on the toilet and clean your teeth in the sink without even
stretching. The bath was a hip bath and was a few shades yellower than white.
Also on the toilet seat there was a really scary looking black hair….
The worst thing was the smell though, it permeated every
room in the chalet or Dog Unit 87 as it was unaffectionately named.
I kept thinking about House and how one of the first things
he always does is send his team to peoples apartments to check for mould and I
thought, they seriously wouldn’t have to look hard here!
 All sorts of fungal
infections entered into  my brain and I
thought OMG will we make it till morning?
Well drastic measures were needed. I opened every window in
kennel 87 and turned the heaters up to roasting temperatures: forget global
warming this was an emergency.
We then got some beautiful smelling cocoa butter body butter
and smeared it on the dodgy grey sofa set.
It started to be breatheable but still grossly unpleasant.
We went to sleep and I thought tomorrow night its going to
be Premier Inn time!
I was a bit alarmed about leaving all the windows wide open
in the woods in the middle of nowhere but it was either that or choke to
death…
Then, in the middle of the night, Fizz started barking his
warning howling bark
By my bedroom window I heard trudging, crunching feet going
backwards and forwards.
I was terrified, its going to be some mad  woodman-type
nutter with an axe and a deeply anti social attitude!
Timidly, I looked through the crack in the curtain and saw
the night time intruder!
It was a grim looking, old woman in a white vest with huge
red shorts. Taking cases to a big car
with its head lights blazing.
Eventually, it was packed, doors slammed and the 4x4 sped
away into the night.
The first inmates had escaped from the Dog Units!
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Me Versus Flat Pack

Posted 2010-07-14 02:21PM


Well I decided that my filing system of stuffing everything into my top drawer and ending up with various screwed up bits of paper was not actually working so well for me anymore, especially when people asked for documents, tax stuff etc...
So I decided to get a filing cabinet!

I thought that would be the answer to my prayers everything would have its own little place and the world would be sunnier.

I checked the prices of new wooden ones as I don't like metal ones (too ugly). I was horrified at the cost about £150, way too much for just putting tax stuff in, so I thought I would buy a flat pack at a tenth of the price....

I have had quite alot of experience with flat packs I'm pretty much an old pro really.
I built the exercise bike. It took a day and my uncle coming over to put the feet plates on the right way round but it works as long as you except that its permanantly on the heaviest tension and it wobbles alot!
But I think thats more exercise so its really kinda a bonus.

Then there were the two desks that got sent back half done with gouges out the top corners where I'd hit them with a hammer and a great big lump had flown away from the top. Well those just had to be sent back... The smirk on the delivery mens' faces was not good...

Then there was the little bookcase that just went completely wrong...

So I thought with all this experience I must be really awesome by now.

The flat pack duly arrived and it was alot heavier than it looked in the catalogue, so I decided to open it up in the garden and take it into the house a bit at a time. So I tipped the package up and wham all the bits shot out! Unfortunately, they slide across the paving shots and got a bit scraped. Opps!

Well I got all the bits inside the house and then read all the instructions very carefully.
I put the sides together and slotted the back in and felt really proud!
It actually started looking like a little cabinet.
Well the next job was to put the drawers together, the front went on fine, then I had to put on these two wire pole things that was ok.
Then I had to actually put the drawers together, this was where the problems started.
I had to get two little wooden pegs and the metal poles in the holes and the back board all lined up and then kind of squeeze the drawer together.
I tried to gentily push the drawer together, nothing moved.
I got a hammer and gentily taped the front of the drawer, nothing happened...
I stood on the top of one of the woobly drawers, carefully displacing my weight equally on the drawer top, I jumped up and down, the drawer wobbled, collapsed and I fell to the floor with a 3 inch scratch on my leg. Ouch!
I picked the drawer up... it looked ok from the back then I looked at the front. The metal pole had pierced through the top front of the drawer like an arrow. It didn't look good. I thought I'll just put this drawer on the bottom and put a sticker over the hole!
Clever hmm.
I then got the other drawer which still looked alright, if not altogether.
I thought I've tried: pushing it together, jumping on it and hitting it with a hammer.
So I thought I'd try something else. I got a bigger hammer, a piece of wood to dissipate the blow and I banged the drawer together... The wooden peg shot through the front panel of the drawer, taking a good one inch piece of drawer front with it.
Then fell apart.
There was no way I could get the drawers to fit together!
So I examined them carefully and found the metal bolt things could not possibily fot in there holes.
There was only one thing to do.... I took them out, and the drawers fitted together perfectly.
The only problem was they then had nothing holding them together and promptly fell apart!
I was left with only one option... I got the wood glue out and glued everything!
So now I have a fantastic filing cupboard!
Apart from:
The 2 hole like creaters in the front of the drawers,
The drawers only opening half way
And the diagonal hanging effect on both doors.
But apart from that its perfect!

The filing cabinet now stands in the corner of my room as a permenant reminder, never to do a flat pack again!
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Me Versus Flat Pack

Posted 2010-07-14 02:21PM


Well I decided that my filing system of stuffing everything into my top drawer and ending up with various screwed up bits of paper was not actually working so well for me anymore, especially when people asked for documents, tax stuff etc...
So I decided to get a filing cabinet!

I thought that would be the answer to my prayers everything would have its own little place and the world would be sunnier.

I checked the prices of new wooden ones as I don't like metal ones (too ugly). I was horrified at the cost about £150, way too much for just putting tax stuff in, so I thought I would buy a flat pack at a tenth of the price....

I have had quite alot of experience with flat packs I'm pretty much an old pro really.
I built the exercise bike. It took a day and my uncle coming over to put the feet plates on the right way round but it works as long as you except that its permanantly on the heaviest tension and it wobbles alot!
But I think thats more exercise so its really kinda a bonus.

Then there were the two desks that got sent back half done with gouges out the top corners where I'd hit them with a hammer and a great big lump had flown away from the top. Well those just had to be sent back... The smirk on the delivery mens' faces was not good...

Then there was the little bookcase that just went completely wrong...

So I thought with all this experience I must be really awesome by now.

The flat pack duly arrived and it was alot heavier than it looked in the catalogue, so I decided to open it up in the garden and take it into the house a bit at a time. So I tipped the package up and wham all the bits shot out! Unfortunately, they slide across the paving shots and got a bit scraped. Opps!

Well I got all the bits inside the house and then read all the instructions very carefully.
I put the sides together and slotted the back in and felt really proud!
It actually started looking like a little cabinet.
Well the next job was to put the drawers together, the front went on fine, then I had to put on these two wire pole things that was ok.
Then I had to actually put the drawers together, this was where the problems started.
I had to get two little wooden pegs and the metal poles in the holes and the back board all lined up and then kind of squeeze the drawer together.
I tried to gentily push the drawer together, nothing moved.
I got a hammer and gentily taped the front of the drawer, nothing happened...
I stood on the top of one of the woobly drawers, carefully displacing my weight equally on the drawer top, I jumped up and down, the drawer wobbled, collapsed and I fell to the floor with a 3 inch scratch on my leg. Ouch!
I picked the drawer up... it looked ok from the back then I looked at the front. The metal pole had pierced through the top front of the drawer like an arrow. It didn't look good. I thought I'll just put this drawer on the bottom and put a sticker over the hole!
Clever hmm.
I then got the other drawer which still looked alright, if not altogether.
I thought I've tried: pushing it together, jumping on it and hitting it with a hammer.
So I thought I'd try something else. I got a bigger hammer, a piece of wood to dissipate the blow and I banged the drawer together... The wooden peg shot through the front panel of the drawer, taking a good one inch piece of drawer front with it.
Then fell apart.
There was no way I could get the drawers to fit together!
So I examined them carefully and found the metal bolt things could not possibily fot in there holes.
There was only one thing to do.... I took them out, and the drawers fitted together perfectly.
The only problem was they then had nothing holding them together and promptly fell apart!
I was left with only one option... I got the wood glue out and glued everything!
So now I have a fantastic filing cupboard!
Apart from:
The 2 hole like creaters in the front of the drawers,
The drawers only opening half way
And the diagonal hanging effect on both doors.
But apart from that its perfect!

The filing cabinet now stands in the corner of my room as a permenant reminder, never to do a flat pack again!
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Not So Clean After All!

Posted 2010-06-18 07:01PM

Just a short blog to show my exciting life!
I spent 2 hours cleaning today. I polished the pine with lavender wax, polished the leather sofa so it went all shiny and carefully vacuumed and washed the floor.
The house smelt gorgeous!
I even put the cats bowls in to soak.
Then I decided to have a lovely cup of tea in the garden as lots of the flowers are in bloom now.
Unfortunately.... while I was outside... bad things were happening indoors....
The dog drunk all the water in the cats bowls to get to the meat mush at the bottom and then promptly leeked in lake like proportions over the kitchen floor.
Then looked under the table and there was a gift there too....
...dead baby blackbird.
The kitchen is dirtier now than it was before I started cleaning!
Does this only happen to me!
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