The second box of greenhouse arrived today. Did I open it or did I decide to be sensible and wait until the weekend, when I'd have help to put it together?
Well, inside that box is the biggest Meccano set I've ever seen and a set of instructions that could make a grown man cry. Pieces that resemble the bits of alien spacecraft that sometimes turn up on the Internet and more nuts and bolts than are contained in the Brown Gorgon's head.
It's still in the box. At least I am now free of waiting-for-delivery limbo and can get out tomorrow and deal with things. Just as well since I have to collect a sample tomorrow, which means I will be in the lab at the weekend. Typical. I wait ages for these samples and they finally appear on the one weekend I wanted free.
Although, to be honest, greenhouse assembly is likely to proceed more rapidly and efficiently if I'm not there.
By a remarkable coincidence, 'Construction Kit' was the title of the first short story I ever had published. I won't bore you with it just now, but I plan to put the whole lot on Lulu. Might be in one book, might be two, it depends on the size (more pages = higher cost per book). There'll be a cheap PDF download option too.
Now, I'm sure I had a 10mm spanner, once upon a time...
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Please try to get your stories onto iBooks as, now I'm the owner of an iPad, I need books I will enjoy.
Wouldn't it have been simpler to just paint the one you've already got?
Subrosa - I don't know how easy it is to get into iBooks. I'll look into it.
BTS - the greenhouse could end up as an Ark, covered in black Hammerite, if I let the whisky loose before it's done. Oh, we'll know it's wrong, but it's funny.
"Now, I'm sure I had a 10mm spanner, once upon a time..."
The second most popular size, after 13mm...
microdave... Don't you mean after 1/2" AF? :-)
I've got one somewhere, but I haven't used it for years (since I laid up my old Maxi...). If I recall correctly, a 13mm socket was a better fit on a rusted 1/2" AF head than the proper job, and usually shifted it instead of rounding the points off...
I found the spanner. It's the last one. There were once more of them, back when I did my own car maintenance. I still have a couple of Whitworth spanners in my rusty old toolbox. I don't think I've ever worked out what they were for.
This spanner has to be regarded as the Holy Spanner for the next few days. It fits every bolt in the greenhouse and it's the only one I have.
And there was me going to pinch your stereo. Not half as much fun..
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