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Jesus wept, it ain't pretty reading when you get wallys like that posting.

10 months on a verge trimmer? Will we all have to stand on your left to hold any chance of a conversation with you soon then? Gav, this side is the left mate....

Well good morning folks. Today is the 7th day of being run down with a nasty chest infection. We have bern off work since Thursday to level the garden but it turned into a bit of a battle with me getting worse as the days went on and a few showers turning everything a bit slick. The 'earthworks'are done now at least. We have excavated 30t of soil with a 3/4t Kubota and an 800kg track barrow and using father in laws tractor and trailer to take it to our neighbours farm. It's been arduous. Today was mean't to be a day away at Thorpe Park with Traci a her sister and niece. I waved them off at 7am and took my tablets, a Lemsip, a pint of orange juice and gargled some TCP and now I am tucked up on the sofa for a little knap. I don't do coughs and colds very well!!

I'm having a couple of quiet days off and doing some jobs around the house, mainly boxing in all the plumbing in the utility room and generally getting ready for the tiler, if he ever comes back to me with a quote!!

Brilliant!! Nice and very individual, Mike. Plans a foot for something else, workwise?

Went to Go-Ape. ... Brilliant!!!

Very clever. simple but very clever.

Nice round up of photos, Chris. I didn't see you there, with so many separate rooms it is easy to miss people at Toytrac. What did you make of the dioramas, then? Every one had something special about if.

Nice round up of photos, Chris. I didn't see you there, with so many separate rooms it is easy to miss people at Toytrac. What did you make of the dioramas, then? Every one had something special about if.

That barn was mine all bar the fact Mark had reserved it before most folk had even seen it! It was lovely. George doesn't have his own website but to be honest, it wouldn't do the mans work justice in any case.

Grain shed, Paul. If I've enough to make it big enough, it may have an air tunnel down the middle. We'll get the mind working on that one Mark, smashing buys. I was too late looking to pick up a 7810 Those Britains don't look out of place beside the Shuco 7810... Amazing amount of model there for £16, eh?!

Not really, Ol to be honest. I havnt been 'feeling it' for the farm models for a while now but I drew some inspiration from the show today

My Toytrac purchases: Frater (UH) MF 375, Imber 8970 (to become an 8870) and a UH 4F Kv plough. And then from Mandy and Fraser, some grain walling, Plastic Weld, a knapsack sprayer, tool set, work bench, extension reel, fuse box, sockets and switches and a cat. All for a new build

Congratulations to Andy, Bob and to Sue for all your good news over the past week or so. You all have some happy times ahead by the sound of things. Well done all of you

This brilliant!!!

Ha!! Two, one main and one en-suite. The house we came from had one bloody tiny one. We don't know ourselves in the new place!!

Had a lay in today for the first time in I don't know how long. After a fifteen hour day on the road and trudging around Somerset on foot trying to find a tractor for an hour in the rain. . . which was not even there .. .. By the time I got home I was shot. So a couple of Old Rascals sent me off to the land of nod without any messing. Traci went off to work at 6.30am and I didn't stir until 10.30am. Walked the dog, had a bonfire in the garden and then we went shopping for house stuff. Came back with a dresser for the dining room, a wine cupboard/rack, three bathroom cabinets, an old fashioned wall shelf unit and a glass/metal coffee table for the conservatory. Bite to eat at the Frome Flyer on the way back, bit of tele and a little read through the pages on here to see what's been going on.

I think it's safe to say.... We are moving on Wednesday! :)

I'd love one of those miniature traction engines, what a fantastic hobby to be involved in.

I'd love to see photos about these, James

Across the life of a mortgage, she isn't short by much but as she is self employed and doing a buy to let on her own house, I suppose its the risk she poses. If she can either find it as a deposit or re-work her books to free up the money then the ball should still roll. We have spoken to the people we are buying from and they are in no hurry but we may consider offering them an incentive to keep tge sold sign up if our case doesn't go the way we want to!

Well, not really no. It's bloody stupid if you ask me. The trouble is this time around is that she has 'exaggerated' her earnings to please her bank apparently but the mortgage underwriters have seen through it and refused her forecast so she has until Wednesday now to either find the difference as a lump sum to pay as a deposit on her new mortgage, or rework her books to generate the money needed over the life term of the mortgage. . It's all fun, eh?!!

Thanks, Tim. Off for a peruse now

The Xcover 2 does by the sound of it, dust proof, water proof to a depth of 1m for 30mins and longer battery life too I think. The three main reasons I am interested in one to be honest.

Great news, Sue. Excellent. Bit of a role reversal going on I feel. . . Ours buyers have now realised, eleven or so weeks on that they can't get a mortgage! They have until Wed to sort themselves out and then our house is back on the market. What a total, utter waste of everybody's time, eh?!