YouTube is so useful no matter what you need to know whether it be car maintenance, how to groom a horse or solve a Ribiks cube anything is on there and I have found myself watching wood shop videos and how best to organise a small space. It’s a shame Lesley is going away for the weekend because I am excited to get stuck into moving all the stuff I bought to my shed and see how I can make it all work best for me!
Where do I start with what is going on in my life right now when I am sat downstairs having just played really well at pool and managed to draw a match against atop side from 5 3 down feels really good. I spoke to Lesley tonight and offered her £1000 to take whatever I want out of Trev’s workshop and leave her with a tidy shed and what’s left she can sell herself,and she was shocked and happy with my offer and accepted it straightaway. That makes me happy and I am sure the machinery is worth more than a grand but there was so much more and it is all I would want to start a business if I needed to. It also makes me happy that I am helping my friend, yes she could put it all on ebay and yes she might make more money but she could also make less and have to spend hours advertising it and everything else entailed…I think it suits us both!
On the flip side I sat in an “initial redundancy consultation” with my friend Susan at work and had to endure the heartless corporate spiel and watch my friend struggle to hold herself together while they explained that she no longer had a job unless she successfully applied for her own job on less pay? That saddened me but also made me realise that that is how I am going to be treated in the fullness of time, so be prepared!
If I can create a workshop from my mates stuff and produce wooden products as a “hobby” that makes money while waiting for the inevitable I reckon when it finally happens I might just be able to walk away a winner…?
Dreams cost nothing, starting up a business does but I may just have stolen a march on that?
Do I spend a Grand on tools I might never use, or tools I don’t have room for, Jamie has no idea what I am buying but noticed a glint in my eye and enthusiasm in my voice when I was telling her about bobbin disk and belt sanders router tables drill presses and Forstner bits! She didn’t ask what a reciprocating saw was or why I would want a dust extraction unit too big for my shed, all she saw was how excited I was, telling g me I should start my own business and work for myself but it’s not that easy in my head.
Until I have worked out every last detail in my head, I am a mess a bundle of worry, which I just can’t help. My main dream last night was about if I bought all those tools I would have to install proper electrics and how much that would cost yet by the time I woke up I realised I knew how to do it myself. These types of dreams have resolved many issues over the years and I expect to experience many more over the coming weeks and months as reconcile change in my brain!
Sometimes all the planets align and everything is perfect but most of the time when planets get close to aligning I am doing something else and don’t notice… What if they’re aligning right now and I am actually staring at those stars?
First round of redundancies were announced at work today and although I was not affected directly it made me think do I have a plan when the time comes which I have always said is coming?
I went round to Lesleys following an invite to look at Trevs shop tools with a view to buying any I wanted, but l wasn’t expecting the aladins cave of woodworking equipment I was faced with and the oppertunity it could all give me?
I walked away not buying anything but with my head full of possibilities….
After a whole week off work, pottering in the garden and working on me shed has moved the whole project on so much with the interior now fully panelled out, and the guttering attached.
The rainwater now needs to be temporarily managed until I can get a pipe running the full length of Jamie’s office to get the water to the grid , the worst thing would be to have the watered under either shed unnecessarily.
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We did Halloween stuff this afternoon supporting a freind who runs Greg’s in Crewe and really promoting the season supplying pumpkins for kids to carve, we were worried Reagan and Lincoln might have been too old but oh no…
They loved it and it was good to catch up with Helena and hear her story and how she is considering donating a kidney to her husband who is struggling, such a big thing but she wants to do all she can
Later we had a Halloween get together with Chris, Kate, Charlotte and Gabe with takeaway, and The Goonies. It was really good because we were not sat in the middle of a field and sleeping in a tent afterwards.
Facininating watching Reagan tonight open her very first CD and how amazed she was when she took the cellophane of and opened the box. No idea how to take the CD out so proceeded to take out the cover and was blown away discovering a lyric sheet and a poster, just things we 30 years ago took for granted was absolutely the best new experience for Reagan!
A lay in till 9am, Billy, then breakfast followed by all day in the garden panelling out the rest of my shed…love it!
I could have easily spent £60+ on plywood but decided to see what I already had and either made it good with me table and mitre saws or chopped it up to burn. There were a few bits that were un salvageable so a tip run in the morning will dispose of those.
Having finished panelling the interior and tidied up all of the days tools, I sat in the corner of the building I have built and felt quite proud that it has been all my own work! My thoughts then turned to the outside with winter on its way with the money I saved on panelling I will get the guttering and cladding sorted next,and with payday tomorrow I intend to get some of that at least bought so that I can protect it against another seasons weather!
I loved pottering in the garden today I got so much done including tidying all the wood I had surrounding me shed and utilising any that was not water damaged to panel the inside of gable end. I also utilised as much of Celotex insulation to cover the intended opening for the window,
Anything that wasn’t any use was either cut up for firewood or put it in the yard ready for the tip, including the BBQ and any other “rubbish” that just needed getting rid of.
I can’t wait to get back out there tomorrow.
As we sat in me shed drinking beer just talking and I thought, this is what love is, well it is for me anyway! Not literally, I mean the mundane, I mean living life every second of everyday with the person you just want to be with, doing everyday stuff and just loving it.