- November 15th, 2009
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PGWake has posted a new entry on: Scruffyhippo's Blog
For many years I have been able to see things that for many don’t exist or at least would deem a figment of the imagination but with now nearly 45 years of experiences of things not only seen but he…
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- November 14th, 2009
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PGWake has bookmarked the video Enya - Watermark.
- November 8th, 2009
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PGWake has posted a new entry on: Scruffyhippo's Blog
Count every ' F ' in the following text:FINISHED FILES ARE THE RESULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS... HOW MANY ?WRONG, THERE ARE 6 -- no joke…
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- November 7th, 2009
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PGWake has bookmarked the video Celtic Pan-Flute Pan-Flute.com.
- November 4th, 2009
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PGWake has bookmarked the video Spiritual Flute: The Beauty of Nature.
- October 26th, 2009
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PGWake has bookmarked the video Drums Street Busker.
- October 21st, 2009
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PGWake has posted a new entry on: Scruffyhippo's Blog
They say things only happen when you are ready and this I truely believe.Looking back over the years you can start to see the pattern of your life and how it has turned out, was it what you hoped it w…
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- October 17th, 2009
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PGWake has bookmarked the video Cadbury Eyebrows (official version).
- October 7th, 2009
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PGWake has bookmarked the video Phil Collins "Gorilla Drummer" Cadbury Ad (Dairy Milk).
- September 27th, 2009
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PGWake has posted a new entry on: P G Wake
Brickwork & Rafters When I turned up Thursday the brickwork was all done and a good match too, both in size and colour. The end gable wasn’t done because the actual rafter position hasn…
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- September 19th, 2009
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PGWake has posted a new entry on: P G Wake
Beam & block concrete floor The beam and block floor arrived early so gave us plenty of time to sort out what we had and lay out the first few beams and get the levels spot on, there are two part…
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- September 15th, 2009
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PGWake has bookmarked the video Boscastle, Cornwall before the 2004 flood.
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PGWake has bookmarked the video Guru Josh Project - Infinity (2008).
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PGWake has bookmarked the video ViewDo: How To Get an Egg in a Milkbottle.
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PGWake has bookmarked the video Cars Movie Soundtrack (Sheryl Crow - Real Gone).
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PGWake has bookmarked the video HIPPO JUNGLE SONG.
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PGWake has bookmarked the video chicken.
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PGWake has bookmarked the video Create a Lemon Battery.
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PGWake has bookmarked the video Sheryl Crow - Real Gone.
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PGWake has bookmarked the video Carrotty Kid Pilot.
- September 12th, 2009
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PGWake has posted a new entry on: P G Wake
Concrete and clay bricks In the last article of this project, all the excavation had been done for the main footings and the concrete and pump was booked and now a week on you can see the result of th…
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- September 5th, 2009
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PGWake has posted a new entry on: P G Wake
Windows & doors The latter part of this week was spent at the kennels finishing off replacing the windows I started at the beginning of last week and did the 6 windows on the back of the building…
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- September 2nd, 2009
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PGWake has bookmarked the video Our £50 Ebay bargain.
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PGWake has posted a new entry on: P G Wake
Footings & Drains After nearly two weeks of digging and clearing earth to the skips, the trench for the footings was now 2 metres deep as requested by building control, in the picture it may not…
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- August 22nd, 2009
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PGWake has posted a new entry on: P G Wake
Excavation & footings Even though I moved to Cambridgeshire nearly a year and a half ago I am still doing a project down in Essex where I moved from, it is in fact next door to a house we were wo…
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- August 15th, 2009
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PGWake has posted a new entry on: P G Wake
Stair spindles & handrails Since the last post we have laid concrete bases at the kennels and I also had a week off at the beginning of the month, now it’s hard to get me to take any time o…
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- August 8th, 2009
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PGWake has bookmarked the video Our £50 Ebay bargain.
- August 1st, 2009
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PGWake has posted a new entry on: P G Wake
Laying gravel Monday morning the first 20 ton load of gravel arrived, the second load of 10 ton was booked for a few hours later giving us time to move some of this lot. The gravel is being laid on a…
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- July 25th, 2009
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PGWake has posted a new entry on: P G Wake
Dog run & Compound One of the biggest single parts of the job here is the dog run, over 400 square metres that needs clearing and laid with new gravel. The only way to gain access is to remove p…
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- July 18th, 2009
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PGWake has posted a new entry on: P G Wake
Cattery entrance frame In between doing the staircase the frame at the front of the cattery is down for replacement so I decided to make it up in the workshop, mainly because even though the existing…
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- July 15th, 2009
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PGWake has posted a new entry on: P G Wake
Installing the staircase The morning we were fitting up the staircase started early loading up the van, the extra weight certainly noticed as we were driving to the job, the house where the staircase…
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- July 13th, 2009
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PGWake has posted a new entry on: P G Wake
Cutting the staircase strings By nature, making a staircase of any kind is repetitive so spending time making templates is a well worth while exercise, get the template right and all the treads and ri…
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PGWake has posted a new entry on: P G Wake
Newel posts & final joinery This is the last part of this article on actually making the staircase, the next part will be on site installing it. Below I have set up the lower part of the stairs t…
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- July 12th, 2009
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PGWake has bookmarked the video Sheryl Crow - Real Gone.
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PGWake has bookmarked the video Cars Movie Soundtrack (Sheryl Crow - Real Gone).
- July 10th, 2009
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PGWake has posted a new entry on: P G Wake
Polycarbonate roofing Our second post on the cattery roof starts with setting out the polycarbonate roof, you can now see the 4×2″ timber acting as a ridge to the left of the picture and ca…
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- July 8th, 2009
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PGWake has bookmarked the video chicken.
- July 5th, 2009
- July 4th, 2009
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PGWake has posted a new entry on: P G Wake
Roofing & rot Last week I started a roof refurbishment that had grown tired and leaky and could easily post a dozen or more pictures in this article but as I try to keep to six or seven photoR…
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- July 3rd, 2009
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- June 29th, 2009
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PGWake has posted a new entry on: P G Wake
Making an oak staircase Even though the oak for this job arrived a few weeks ago, other than cut it down to near sizes little else has been done. Since then other jobs have taken priority, after I fi…
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- June 28th, 2009
- June 23rd, 2009
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PGWake has posted a new entry on: P G Wake
Timber & Polycarbonate roof The Newmarket Lean-to started off as a small repair job to the front frame, but after taking it apart was found to have wet rot in the rest of the frame work and surr…
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- June 18th, 2009
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- June 15th, 2009