It has been 80 % completed now for 5 months but i have not been able to go further, as it just got too hot to mould concrete bricks to complete my viaduct.
but it is now getting under 20 degrees most very early in the mornings and we have started moulding again, early and late and we should have it 100 % completed by next month.
We are well into autumn now and in about 7 weeks it will be what they laughingly refer to as winter around here, it will get down to 15 C overnight sometimes.
Rgds Ian
15 C, by heck Ian that’s summer weather here in blighty, apart from the odd day when it may get as high as 20 C! You will have to make your moulds just the right size for a cheap secondhand fridge, that should let it cure ok.
Cheers,
Kim
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Wow, 20C, you might have to break down and wear a long sleeve shirt, brrrrrr.[(-D]
What are you using to mould your bricks? It sounds like an interesting idea, I’d like to know more.
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Ian, if you and Kimbrit merge your weather, you would have paradise. Always great temps, not too hot, not too cold. Then the only question is ale, or beer ?? Football (euro style) or aussie style. Cheers
Tim
Tim I follow the Sydney Swans, as I lived in Sydney for 60 years, they are red and white and play in the AFL (Australian Football league). Here in Australia we play 4 codes of football at a very high level. AFL we invented it and nearly only us play it so i guess we have to be world champions. Rugby Union we were world champions untill last year when we lost it ot the Brits. Rugby League I forgotten when we weren’t world Champons about 35 years ago I think. And of course Soccer, beat Iraqu and Indosnesia recently but last year we beat world champions France and of course England as well.
They keep us out of the world cup with political wizardry in soccer.
I drink Victoria Bitter beer, Australia has very good beer as we learned how to make it from our German Immigrants.
Kim I expect to be at Windemere about 20- 21 August so i wil lsee you about then. I think that is pretty close to you? We will have been to see the Edinburgh Tattoo and visited the Isle of Skye and Glasgow just prior.
Rgds Ian
Jack Sorry mate I forgot to answer you, I have no idea of wearing a long sleeved shirt, I usually don’t have any sleeves at all in my shirt. Nor do i wear hardly any sort of footwear. My Grandkids reckon Grandads idea of getting dressed up is tp put on a pair of socks.
Unfortunately different words have different meanings in different countries but I wear thongs on my feet, and for a shirt I wear tank tops and I wear shorts as well.
What that will all mean in USA or UK I can only guess.
Rgds Ian
Ian-
Here in the US, women are the ones who (usually) wear thongs. They don’t go on for feet either! [:0] Wanna see?
For women:
http://www.brigite.com/
For men:
http://www.abcunderwear.com/string-thong.html
You won’t catch me wearing either!
BTW: Tank tops and short work here as well. [;)]
Thongs here in Australia are made of rubber type stuff have two straps(hence the idea of thong) they join together just above the bit between your big toe and the one next to it and go through there into the soul of the shoe. In New Zealnd i think they call then Jandals. I bought the worst pair of my life in Florence in Italy, I now refer to them as my special thongs. I think they called them thongs in Italy as well or the Italian equivalent of thong.
Rgds Ian
Hate those flip-flop things[:D]
The day school got out, Mom would takes us shopping and buy us all flip-flops (we called them thongs too). Then, at supper, she’d find herself saying, “You lost your thongs already? You’ll just have to go barefoot all summer.” That, of course, was fine with me[:-,]
Too funny, Ian! Yes, I can see you there, tank top and shorts, bitter in hand, telling the grandkids some wild, mostly true, story about “back in the day…”.
I don’t like getting dressed up either, my idea of that is a pair of clean tennis shoes.
Can you post a photo of your Area 3? I’d really like to see what you’ve done.
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15C??? I think we are having your “winter” right now in our Ohio “spring”!!!
underworld
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Jack mate send me an email so i can get your email address and i will send you a number of photos, sorry i cant post it until my step son visits us again and as he has anew girlfriend that may be some time.
Was someone asking about my mouldings and I forgot to answer them. We make many things 17 pylons, 15 coulumns, 2 tunnel portals a 16 span viaduct etc out of Jigstone concrete (cement) moulding system which I bought from USA and I got the lead from Old dads, threds
Ian, Do you still have my e-mail address to send me those pics?
My idea of getting dressed up is wearing jeans or jean shorts with no wood glue on them[:D]
Bibs with no glue[:D]