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General => Chat & Off Topic Stuff => Topic started by: Eddy Matthews on June 27, 2011, 03:48:17 AM
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To keep my mind off everything that's happened at home, I've been decorating the house - I've got the girls bedroom done, and the hallway and staircase. Now I've started on the lounge.... Stripped all the wallpaper off, and today I've made a start on emulsioning the ceiling, but at about 25 celcius today, the sweat has been pouring out of me, up and down a stepladder all afternoon.
I'm about 3/4 of the way to completing the ceiling, but I really cannot stand the heat any more - Tomorrow is forecast to be even hotter!! So work has been abandoned until tuesday....
It's probably just as well, since I cannot afford to buy the wallpaper for the room yet anyway - Have you seen the price of wallpaper nowadays? I nearly had a heart attack!!
Eddy
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Hi Eddy,
calm down ;D the temperature over here in Switzerland is around 30 degree/C and no climate control in our workshop :P
OK there is a change in the weather forcast for Wednesday the temperate will drop to 23 degree.
regards Hans
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I hear that, I had to keep leavng the workshop today, far too hot in there.
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To keep my mind off everything that's happened at home, I've been decorating the house
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It's probably just as well, since I cannot afford to buy the wallpaper for the room yet anyway - Have you seen the price of wallpaper nowadays? I nearly had a heart attack!!
Eddy
Hi Eddy
Have you though of papering with plain paper and then every couple of years you only have to emulsion it. That way you get a change of colour without the labour of wallpapering. (especially when it's hot outside :) )
My Wife (the chief decorator !) says "Wallpaper is So out" these days. People tend go for plain walls.
Ken
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I know what you mean Ken, but the fact is that I'd rather wallpaper than paint! I hate painting!
Eddy
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Today we have 35° celsius :P :P :P
I hope for a lot of rain tomorrow ;)
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The two Nangiloc photos in my Jessie II series (www.paddleducks.co.uk/smf/index.php?topic=2475.msg29540#msg29540) were taken in what I stated in the text was 40 deg C, but which I recall was 44 deg C. Melbourne reaches 40 from time to time, but northern Victoria is hotter.
2 years ago, Melbourne reached 44 for a couple of days: a lot of suburban trains failed in that heat (mainly failure of the airconditioning system).
44 and dry is more comfortable than 38 with high humidity.
Roderick B Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor
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25 degrees is a gorgeous day! Had a beautiful 25 here in Iowa City today! (Current location) Sat outside with friends... absolutely lovely!
However, up a ladder, with the laws of hot air rises and inside, chances are it could have been warmer.
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The problem comes when the paint has dried before the brush has reached the end of its stroke. Back in the days, that was also a problem with Humbrol model paints when I was assembling Airfix kits (paddleboats and railway locomotives).
Australia never had jokes about frying eggs on footpaths [sidewalks]: they were baked before the shell could be cracked.
Combining hobbies, Iowa stubborn (from the stage musical Music Man):
www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/themusicman/iowastubborn.htm
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MlpuWxCt7k
and lots more by Googling.
Aussie bushman: 'I see you've learned the Barcoo salute'.
Prince Phillip, wiping a fly from his face while on tour: 'What do you mean?'.
Roderick B Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor