My Shed

Just zis Guy, you know? [email hidden] opined the
following...

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[1] Sheddism[2] for web
[2] uk.rec.sheds, do KUATB![3]
[3] Keep Up At The Back - do KUATB![3]

Bored?

Jon

On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 20:59:40 +0100, in
<[email hidden]>, Jon Senior

jon_AT_restlesslemon_DOTco_DOT_uk said:

Just zis Guy, you know? [email hidden] opined the
following...

Quoted message said:

[1] Sheddism[2] for web
[2] uk.rec.sheds, do KUATB![3]
[3] Keep Up At The Back - do KUATB![3]

Bored?

I will post links to jpgs of my new bike shed when it gets plonked
where the worm lives [1]

[1] <sing> There's a worm at the bottom of the garden</sing>

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On 28/6/04 10:29 pm, in article [email hidden],

Richard Bates said:

On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 20:59:40 +0100, in
<[email hidden]>, Jon Senior

jon_AT_restlesslemon_DOTco_DOT_uk said:

Just zis Guy, you know? [email hidden] opined the
following...

Quoted message said:

[1] Sheddism[2] for web
[2] uk.rec.sheds, do KUATB![3]
[3] Keep Up At The Back - do KUATB![3]

Bored?

I will post links to jpgs of my new bike shed when it gets plonked
where the worm lives [1]

[1] <sing> There's a worm at the bottom of the garden</sing>

I've been looking at options for a bike shed [1] but the criteria are:
freestanding
secure against reasonably determined toerags
Fit into a space 4'9"x9' with doors on the short side.
Full height.

So far the only thing I have found is a motorcycle garage which looks ideal,
except that it is around 600 shellfish.

Still thinking..

...d

[1] Yes I know I have a big garage and when I have moved the boat out of it
I'll have much more room for the bikes.. but it would be a lot easier to
just have a simple bike shed. At the moment the main door to the garage is
locked by a bolt on the inside (normal garage door locks are [censored]) which
means get the bike out, close door and lock, exit through the back door of
the garage, and then return to the bike.

On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 10:42:22 +0100, David Martin
<[email hidden]> wrote in message
<[email hidden]>:

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So far the only thing I have found is a motorcycle garage which looks ideal,
except that it is around 600 shellfish.

Build your own. As long as you have at least one concrete or steel
post sunk in the ground to which you can lock the bikes, the rest is
relatively straightforward.

Guy
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In message <[email hidden]>, "Just zis Guy,
you know?" <[email hidden]> writes

Quoted message said:

On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 10:42:22 +0100, David Martin
<[email hidden]> wrote in message
<[email hidden]>:

Quoted message said:

So far the only thing I have found is a motorcycle garage which looks ideal,
except that it is around 600 shellfish.

Build your own. As long as you have at least one concrete or steel
post sunk in the ground to which you can lock the bikes, the rest is
relatively straightforward.

I built a little bike shedlet in a house (well garden of the house) we
rented, as much for protection from the elements as for security.

I built it in the corner of a house wall and garden wall. Door and some
4x2 scavenged off a site of a demolished factory, bought a bit of
corrugated plastic for the roof, and a bit of T&G board for the
remaining wall. Hefty locking point bolted into the wall.

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On 29/6/04 9:03 pm, in article [email hidden], "chris

French said:

In message <[email hidden]>, "Just zis Guy,
you know?" <[email hidden]> writes

Quoted message said:

On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 10:42:22 +0100, David Martin
<[email hidden]> wrote in message
<[email hidden]>:

Quoted message said:

So far the only thing I have found is a motorcycle garage which looks ideal,
except that it is around 600 shellfish.

Build your own. As long as you have at least one concrete or steel
post sunk in the ground to which you can lock the bikes, the rest is
relatively straightforward.

I built a little bike shedlet in a house (well garden of the house) we
rented, as much for protection from the elements as for security.

Quoted message said:

I built it in the corner of a house wall and garden wall. Door and some
4x2 scavenged off a site of a demolished factory, bought a bit of
corrugated plastic for the roof, and a bit of T&G board for the
remaining wall. Hefty locking point bolted into the wall.

Setting locking points into the wall/floor would be no problem. I'll have to
work out the appropriate heights and determing what would be appropriately
secure (may need a bit of wall re-engineering) and to get appropriate
drainage. Main issue will be making/sourcing an appropriate set of doors
that can be adequately locked.

I'd like something that is reasonably difficult to break into, so corrugated
plastic/wood is not really what I have in mind. Steel frame, corrugated
metal roof, metal doors with big locks is my idea of secure.

Admittedly I haven't had anything stolen from the house apart from the house
number (toerags came up the garden path and unscrewed it from the wall..
next one will have the post code on ;-) but the neighbour has been burgled
and I've had the local lowlife yoof trying to open the garage door whilst I
was in there..

...d

In article <[email hidden]>,
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Admittedly I haven't had anything stolen from the house apart from the house
number (toerags came up the garden path and unscrewed it from the wall..
next one will have the post code on ;-) but the neighbour has been burgled
and I've had the local lowlife yoof trying to open the garage door whilst I
was in there..

I think I'd be examining why I lived where you live and what the
barriers were to moving Some Place Else. I realise that this is a
complex issue, and don't want you to consider me issuing that classic MT
uterence[1] but I would be considering a move if I was in your
situation.

[1]or was it Norman Tebbit anyhow itr seems some how appropriate to this
news group{2}

{2} has anyone got it yet? 🙂
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On 2/7/04 12:04 am, in article
[email hidden], "paul"

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In article <[email hidden]>,
[email hidden] says...

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Admittedly I haven't had anything stolen from the house apart from the house
number (toerags came up the garden path and unscrewed it from the wall..
next one will have the post code on ;-) but the neighbour has been burgled
and I've had the local lowlife yoof trying to open the garage door whilst I
was in there..

I think I'd be examining why I lived where you live and what the
barriers were to moving Some Place Else. I realise that this is a
complex issue, and don't want you to consider me issuing that classic MT
uterence[1] but I would be considering a move if I was in your
situation.

It's not as bad as all that. There is the occasional thing that is annoying
but:
1. We are walking distance (5 mins) from
a) the kids school
b) the local park
c) the high street with traditional butchers, fishmongers and modern
supermarkets
d) the local swimming pool and library
e) my place of work (20 mins)
f) kids next school (OK, a longer walk at 20 mins)
g) nursery for the youngest.
We have a bus stop outside for getting into town with about six-eight busses
an hour.

Two incidents in three years is bearable. We don't leave the car in one
street as the crime rate in that street seems to be quite high (had three
wing mirrors pinched from the car) but just round the corner it is much
better.

The ultimate plan is to move when the kids are at secondary school.
If you know of a location with the same nearness of amenities with
affordable housing that has a lower crime rate then do let me know.

...d

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The ultimate plan is to move when the kids are at secondary school.
If you know of a location with the same nearness of amenities with
affordable housing that has a lower crime rate then do let me know.

Where I live fits all your criteria right up to the afforable bit 🙁 I
was VERY lucky to get the house we live in at the price we did, I
certainly couldn't afford to buy it now.
--
..paul

If at first you don't succeed...
Skydiving is probably not the sport for you.

On 2/7/04 10:04 am, in article
[email hidden], "paul"

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In article <[email hidden]>,
[email hidden] says...

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

The ultimate plan is to move when the kids are at secondary school.
If you know of a location with the same nearness of amenities with
affordable housing that has a lower crime rate then do let me know.

Quoted message said:

Where I live fits all your criteria right up to the afforable bit 🙁 I
was VERY lucky to get the house we live in at the price we did, I
certainly couldn't afford to buy it now.

Are you in/near Dundee then?

As to the affordable, it would be interesting trying to buy the same house
four years on. Not sure we could afford it now.

...d

In article <[email hidden]>,
[email hidden] says...

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On 2/7/04 10:04 am, in article
[email hidden], "paul"

Quoted message said:

In article <[email hidden]>,
[email hidden] says...

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

The ultimate plan is to move when the kids are at secondary school.
If you know of a location with the same nearness of amenities with
affordable housing that has a lower crime rate then do let me know.

Quoted message said:

Where I live fits all your criteria right up to the afforable bit 🙁 I
was VERY lucky to get the house we live in at the price we did, I
certainly couldn't afford to buy it now.

Are you in/near Dundee then?

As to the affordable, it would be interesting trying to buy the same house
four years on. Not sure we could afford it now.

..d

No, I'm in deepest Suffolk, a train commute from London (which
thankfully I only have to do 4 or 5 days a month). If it were nopt for
the children's schooling, I'd relocate in rural Scotland, but that
option is a few years away yet.
--
..paul

If at first you don't succeed...
Skydiving is probably not the sport for you.

On Fri, 2 Jul 2004 12:51:59 +0000 (UTC), paul
<[email hidden]> wrote (more or less):

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In article <[email hidden]>,
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On 2/7/04 10:04 am, in article
[email hidden], "paul"

Quoted message said:

In article <[email hidden]>,
[email hidden] says...

Quoted message said:

> The ultimate plan is to move when the kids are at secondary school.
> If you know of a location with the same nearness of amenities with
> affordable housing that has a lower crime rate then do let me know.

Quoted message said:

Where I live fits all your criteria right up to the afforable bit 🙁 I
was VERY lucky to get the house we live in at the price we did, I
certainly couldn't afford to buy it now.

Are you in/near Dundee then?

As to the affordable, it would be interesting trying to buy the same house
four years on. Not sure we could afford it now.

..d

No, I'm in deepest Suffolk, a train commute from London (which
thankfully I only have to do 4 or 5 days a month). If it were nopt for
the children's schooling, I'd relocate in rural Scotland, but that
option is a few years away yet.

Just remember the extreme difference in climate between the two places
when plannng your move.

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On 2/7/04 3:29 pm, in article [email hidden],

Gawnsoft said:

Just remember the extreme difference in climate between the two places
when plannng your move.

Dundee is much drier than suffolk...

...d

in message <[email hidden]>, paul

(') said:

No, I'm in deepest Suffolk, a train commute from London (which
thankfully I only have to do 4 or 5 days a month). If it were nopt for
the children's schooling, I'd relocate in rural Scotland, but that
option is a few years away yet.

We do still have schools in rural Scotland, you know. Some of them are
even quite good.

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On Fri, 2 Jul 2004 12:51:59 +0000 (UTC), paul
<[email hidden]> wrote (more or less):

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In article <[email hidden]>,
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On 2/7/04 10:04 am, in article
[email hidden], "paul"
<[email hidden]> wrote:

> In article <[email hidden]>,
> [email hidden] says...

>> The ultimate plan is to move when the kids are at secondary school.
>> If you know of a location with the same nearness of amenities with
>> affordable housing that has a lower crime rate then do let me know.

> Where I live fits all your criteria right up to the afforable bit 🙁 I
> was VERY lucky to get the house we live in at the price we did, I
> certainly couldn't afford to buy it now.

Are you in/near Dundee then?

As to the affordable, it would be interesting trying to buy the same house
four years on. Not sure we could afford it now.

..d

No, I'm in deepest Suffolk, a train commute from London (which
thankfully I only have to do 4 or 5 days a month). If it were nopt for
the children's schooling, I'd relocate in rural Scotland, but that
option is a few years away yet.

Just remember the extreme difference in climate between the two places
when plannng your move.

I well, I'm from oop north in any case, and I've never really got used
to the higher tempretures here abouts. I went to school on Ilkley Moor
'ba 'telmet Moved to these southerly climes in 94. the children are all
nambie pambie southerners now, me I'm pinen' for the ffo^H^H^H hills
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If at first you don't succeed...
Skydiving is probably not the sport for you.

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On 2/7/04 3:29 pm, in article [email hidden],

Gawnsoft said:

Just remember the extreme difference in climate between the two places
when plannng your move.

Dundee is much drier than suffolk...

..d

I doubt that it will be drier. It might be as dry though.
--
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If at first you don't succeed...
Skydiving is probably not the sport for you.

In article <[email hidden]>,
[email hidden] says...

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in message <[email hidden]>, paul

(') said:

No, I'm in deepest Suffolk, a train commute from London (which
thankfully I only have to do 4 or 5 days a month). If it were nopt for
the children's schooling, I'd relocate in rural Scotland, but that
option is a few years away yet.

We do still have schools in rural Scotland, you know. Some of them are
even quite good.

And a diffrent curriculum, but that's not the reason for not moving. My
children are 9, 13 and 16. The school the eldest two are at is a
particularly good school, and the youngest will go there soon also. But
agian this isnt the reason. All three are settled and have friends, they
know the area, and know where to avoid as well as where togo. Moving to
scotland on what would essentially be a whim would not be fair on them.
My trun will come, when they've all moved on.
--
..paul

If at first you don't succeed...
Skydiving is probably not the sport for you.