Build a building G.B.2014!!...Being finished 2020. Our Dream home. (spanner and wife)

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Hope you don't mind Ron but I have saved a few of your building pics especially on the roofing tiles as I'll be using this as a Template for my scratch build


By the way this is bloomin awesome and looks the dogs danglies


( I may ask you to build our dream home when we win the millions!!


Regards


Robert
 

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Looks great and a very nice way of realising your dreams on a budget.


I had to realise someone else's dreams on an unlimited budget.


Greetings


Albert Speer.
 

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Yesterday the wife asked "Can you go up into the loft and get down my suitcase of summer clothes, please dear?"

This request was obeyed. Whilst I was up there rooting, I came across this incomplete 2014 Group Build effort 'Building a building'

I brought it down and showed it to the wife. "Let's finish it." she suggested. So we will get our heads together and have us some fun together doing just that.... :blow-kiss:

Something a bit 'Off the Wall'

Ron
 

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Hello everyone.

Well, my wife and I took off in our Lear Jet and arrived on our private airstrip at our retreat today after a 6 yr. absence. No quarantine, just a few bottles of Scotch for the local 'Bill' to turn a blind eye.
Not much been done, I'm afraid. The locals informed us that as soon as we left in 2014, our Zulu workforce scarpered. They told the neighbours they were off back to Africa to celebrate their victory over us Brits. at Isandlwana in 1879 - and never came back!

So we're sat down in the empty, but sun drenched swimming pool, making plans to finish our 'Dream House'

Wish you were here.....
 

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I wasn't here in 2014.......but I'm here now and expect you and the Missus, after all these years and just celebrated your umptieth wedding anniversary while consuming at least two bottles of bubbly and getting all silly and stuff................well it's about time you finished this project!!! Some of the folks on here have been holding their breath a long time, what with the Zulu's scarpering and all you'd think you could at least post a recent picture of your dream house, cobwebs and all..........and did I tell you the cat's got asthma!!:tongue-out3::tongue-out2::tongue-out:

Cheers Mate, I'll follow along if you don't mind. Rick H.
 

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I wasn't here in 2014.......but I'm here now and expect you and the Missus, after all these years and just celebrated your umptieth wedding anniversary while consuming at least two bottles of bubbly and getting all silly and stuff................well it's about time you finished this project!!! Some of the folks on here have been holding their breath a long time, what with the Zulu's scarpering and all you'd think you could at least post a recent picture of your dream house, cobwebs and all..........and did I tell you the cat's got asthma!!:tongue-out3::tongue-out2::tongue-out:

Cheers Mate, I'll follow along if you don't mind. Rick H.
WHAT Rick said above as this gave me a really good chuckle this little story an :thinking:me an my SWMBO wont have a dream home on the milliions unless they give out a free lottery lol;) im surprised you dint hijack Pete's minions as they only work for bannas an they cheaper that the sulu's ;):rolling::tongue-out3::smiling3:
WE'll also follow on chris an SWMBO
 

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Thanks boys, nice to have you both along.

This bit of fun and nonsense won't be everyone's cup of tea, but it is a scale model, albeit not made of steel and rivets.

Rick, there are some pictures of the house on page one, which I took just before we left for home in 2014.....

Christopher, you never know what the future holds, so who knows what might drop through your letter box.

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Hi everybody.

Luckily we installed a stand pipe for our temp. water supply and could use a BBQ for our cooking, but the missus wanted a fresh water swim.

We needed some sort of access to the small river running past the house - No, villa!

Who to build it? I then had a brain wave. I'll call my good friend, the builder, Idu Chukumupp. You might well recall he built 'The Clacker', the pub in the inlet where the model of my tugboat ended up.

He agreed to come over and do the work. he arrived within a couple of days and brought my old buddies, the painters Meekan N'doodeelyd and Takdee Broosh N'Payunt.
I showed them around...

"Hey, honkey, dis am some pleeas you am got here" I thanked him.

I informed him he was to sleep in the empty snooker room. There were plenty of Mealie bags left by the departed Zulus.

"Day will do fine, man. Far better dan do's mettol springy tings you spooks sleep on!" said Idu. I agreed.

The work on the decking started straight away. The timber was delivered by an ex. pat. Brummie.

"Luvloy plyce yowv got eur, moy mite." I agreed

Two weeks later the two level decking was complete. Plastic card, wooden skewers and cut down coffee stirrers.

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Time to give the orange growers another visit to sort out the water in the stream.....and, of course see what else the memsahib wants.

Cheers.
Ron
 

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570.
As I ponder where you could be classed as either a severe metal case or suffering from "Lockdown breakdown " I have enjoyed this trip into the world of make believe.
However I have email Matron and she was so concerned she has gathered up her equipment and has checked the tire pressures on her bike.
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Hear she is about to set off.
Yours 453
 

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Hi Mr and Mrs Ron
Thank you for the story and the model. A real tonic in these strange times.
Keep up the modelling and the banter.
Jim
 

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Thanks chaps.

453, that is some horn she has on her bike! Should have some spare mealie bags for her when she gets here.

Daft story, good banter, but some serious model making intent. One excellent concoction....Just stir gently, and if it adds up to a bit of a smile (for some) then all the better....

Best wishes from your good friend.
Baycun Saarni.
 
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You do realise I'll be coming to you and your excellent team when I win the lottery and start looking for my own dream house? It's so difficult to find such real craftsmen in this day and age.
 

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You won't find any Dave, 570's got them all working for him.......Pete Low keeps his Minions locked in the tool drawer of his hobby bench and the Zulus have disappeared off the face of the continent. BTW...that decking looks the dogs 570. A nice spot to catch a bit of sun with the Missus.

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Yeah. Well when they find there'll be a case of Boddies for the boss and pizzas all round for the guys, you watch, they'll be racing to my door!

I forgot to mention the blow-up li-los to sleep on! None of this used mealie bags nonsense - proper luxury!
 

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Hi Mr and Mrs Ron
Thank you for the story and the model. A real tonic in these strange times.
Keep up the modelling and the banter.
Jim
HI RON what Jim said above as It has been a good tonic to cheers us up an the missus was laughin too so you've cheered us up out of the lock down blues well done an more please :smiling5:
chris an jen
 

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I forgot to mention the blow-up li-los to sleep on! None of this used mealie bags nonsense - proper luxury!

...nor the wine gums and free holidays in Nova Scotia (To be taken in January!)
 

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Regarding the water in the river, I've been up to have a word with the owner of the orange plantation. On the way up the hill, I passed the small dam (which you will have probably read about on page one) I blew up in 2014 to divert the water to fill my river swimming pool. I observed that instead of the hole being repaired with concrete, he had fitted a rather smart electrically operated sluice gate.

We met up.
"Buenos dias, Senor Guyo Gibsono! Realmente deberia meter una de mis naranjas en el culo, que tosser!" I agreed. (See Google Translate)

"Hola, you'o Diego'o twit'o." I replied

After exchanging these mutual pleasantries, and sharing a drink of his most excellent fresh orange juice, I came away clutching a snazzy remote control for the sluice gate.

He has allowed me enough water to fill the pool and allow a slight continuous flow of water onto the beach. For my part I agreed not to shoot and kill any more of his livestock which in the past has roamed on my land, particularly his prized and very valuable pedigree donkeys. How he got to know about the one I shot and slung in the sea remains a mystery......

Anyway, here are some pictures the wife took whilst up in our Micro-lite, of the river and her 'Plunge pool'. Just enough water trickling over the lip. We didn't want a waterfall which would wake us during our afternoon nap.

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Oh, by the way. My wife has adopted a stray cat. The flees were easy to get rid of, it's the boils on it's back that are a nuisance. They keep bursting, and apart from the awful smell, they leave a disgusting stain. I need to rub some garlic butter on the wounds.

Bye for now.
 
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