Timber! (2)
Monday 3rd November
In answer to Debsters question, it turned out I was making a bridge. But I didn’t know that at the time. I wasn’t sure what I was making, I just knew it had to be made out of two by six with chicken-wire stapled to it.
More details on that soon.
Saturday afternoon, I went back to B&Q. I went up to a man and said “I’m hoping to get a length of 2 by 6 and have three cuts made in it… is that something you can do?”
“Of course it is.”, he said, “let me find someone who is trained on the saw.”
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“Hello good sir,” said the man who is trained on the saw, “I hear you would like a length of 2 by 6 cutting… that will be no problem at all, bring hither the 2 by 6 and I shall cut it willingly on yon saw.”
As he beckoned toward the saw, we spied the legend “OUT OF ORDER”.
DOH!
Never mind, at least I proved to myself that they do cut timber lengths and that I had just been talking to a … um … yeah… one of them previously.
Luckily I’d brought my wood saw, and cut it up in the car park.
Mission accomplished. And luckily so because had I not accomplished my mission, my Micra would still be stuck half-way along a green lane in Derbyshire.
You went green-laning in a _Micra_? Ye gods, man!
Omally
3 Nov 08 at 12:19 pm
‘in’ is probably not the best choice of word. We prpbably spent as much time _out_ of the Micra building road. But in essence, yes.
Blog coming soon!
stu
3 Nov 08 at 2:47 pm
I bet the Kidderminster Throwback deliberately broke the saw when he figured you’d be back.
sweavo
3 Nov 08 at 4:02 pm
“Out of Order”
Somebody tried cutting wet wood, didn’t they. Tut.
Simon's Tall
3 Nov 08 at 4:39 pm
A bridge! How silly of me not to have guessed that was what you were building.
Will it have trolls and the “Three Billy Goats Gruff” under it?
Debster
4 Nov 08 at 2:14 am