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You should have done, I've always worn it for sanding and in particular for removal of anti fouling... It meant I had a few masks available when this all started..

Half an hour after my last post, the lead melting pot arrived, working on something hot might be an idea tomorrow even if I have to have the garage doors open to let the fumes out..

We've been clearing brambles, reorganizing trailer parking, preparing for the new shed. also moving a lot of bricks and slabs. Yesterday 400bricks, 20 Heavy duty breeze blocks, and 4 2ft square 2 inch thick slabs 41kg each!!! Another 400bricks and 30 of those slabs to move. Having had problems melting the lead safely, I've bought a proper lead melting pot, which should arrive in the next few days according to the parcel tracker. Talking of parcel trackers, on clearing the Ivy off the garage, it was discovered the lean to corrugated iron shed was on the point of collapse, so a new shed was ordered.. The tracker showed all 4 parcels leaving the depot together.. After a wander around Germany, they arrived separately in Oldbury the other side of Birmingham, Leicester, and direct to Snetterton. They then arrived in three separate deliveries from Snetterton , on three consecutive days . On one day, the tracker showed the driver had 128 deliveries between Sheringham and Potter Heigham as far inland as Hoveton . He left the depot, at 08:30. Reaching us, delivery 123 at 16.45. The courier is just one of many companies, it just shows how much ordering is online these days and why shops are closing. Time for a Muggacoffee then start on moving bricks...

Well the Ivy was finally all cleared off the garage roof about couple of days ago, and holes patched. But yesterday's downpour showed I'd missed a couple of holes, and in some places water backed up between the layers of the asbestos roof so there is work still to be done. The keel work still goes slowly on, experiments in lead melting should commence today. The model railway procedes, I'm working on a Type 84 radar at the moment, familar to those who've looked north from Horning, first picture Neatishead's T84, second picture the model of the building on the hill on Tiree . The actual radar support structure has just been commenced.

That's brought it mostly into line with the other forums I belong to. But they say the heart means " sympathy "

The wooden with foam filled voids, stub keel for my 16ft keelboat. I'm currently making the fibre glass skin/ mould for the 150kg lead lump on the bottom. Once filled and bolted to the stub, the entire thing will be fibreglassed over.

Well. Just over a week ago the company asked for those that are merely vulnerable and not extremely vulnerable to return to work as they have sorted out 2M distancing. It did however give you permission to say no. After a conversation by phone with my boss, I got a letter from HR that I'm furloughed for the duration, it also said in my case it was entirely understandable that I did not wish to return. I have 2 conditions on the vulnerable list and an unlisted because it's rare third condition... Meanwhile I've only been out to pick up a prescription once or to walk the dog once a day. We are lucky? to have 1.5 acres of jungle to slowly turn into a garden, also I've been working on the sailing boat and model railway. Our dog walk is very quiet in 20 + years of living here, we've only met people on that tour half a dozen times. Though of those, 3 occasions have been strangers since lock down. A picture of one thing I've built since the lock down.

Well, I'm here to predict the 60th 3 Rivers Race WILL occur on 5th and 6th June 2021, I got the prediction wrong last year... The first start is 1 hour 15 minutes after high tide so it should be for getting the boats away.

It's hardly a surprise, but the 2020 3 Rivers Race, has been officially cancelled. See you 5th 6th June 2021 for the 60th Race..

Our deliveries have been done by a friend, who brings stuff from Stalham Tesco .

I could walk to the beach from home and still be within the " reasonable distance " from home. But we don't it's comparatively crowded down there, as all the second homers bailed out of London to their houses by the beach just before the travel ban. Also if it weren't for trees I could see the nearest broad... Through binoculars. We are near a lost broad, walking the dog, we go to the area that would have been marshes around it, when it still existed. In all the 20 years of walking that route, excluding farmhands and the pheasant shoot, we've only seen people half a dozen times. But three different pairs of those have been in the last 3 weeks. We are seeing many strangers walking and cycling past the house. When they stop and pull out a map or peer at a smart phone, you know they are not local. As for what we are doing, it's a continuous never ending weekend. So today, House maintenance, mow the garden, 1.5 acres of jungle.. Work on the sailing boat, sanding a board which will spread the weight of the new keel onto the hull. Work on the model railway, which normally would have only been worked on a Friday evening at the model railway club. I retrieved that from the MRC the day before the ban came in. Each day I'm doing as much work as would have been done in an evening. The scenic work is being started on board 6, which will also hold the traverser, for which I'm awaiting parts from the house of strong ladies. On a weekday I'm still doing a limited amount of official work, writing a spreadsheet to interpret a set of data in a certificate into a format a customer needs to down load into a computer program.

I notice the notice was written by Nancy Blackett, she must be over 100 by now, is she getting her card from the Queen?

The virus might not get you But someone else will....

Here in Norfolk, the only thing better would be to have a river or broad at the bottom of the garden.

Three hours sitting / kneeling on a scaffolding board on the garage roof clearing Ivy, job not finished. The rest of the day continuing creating this..

The weather has not been told about the corona virus, so it's being traditional, it's waiting for the bank holiday to get bad...

How's this for a minor one, Many years ago I spent many hours researching then getting the parts and then started building a model of the family coal wagons... Then this came out before I finished

Our decking, didn't last 15years, facing the north sea, meant all the so called coated screws self destructed... It's slowly being replaced by a raised patio.. Meanwhile the first task of this 12week isolation has been restoring the garage. I've discovered it was built by bodgit and run.. Over 40years ago Power sockets in the lighting circuit . The roof is secondhand asbestos sheets, not all the old screwholes were plugged properly and I found a crack, that they knew about but didn't fix, I know that because they offset one of the screws. The walls are only 2 inch thick breeze blocks!!! So I'll be reinforcing some of it. Today's task, replacing a window, that too was secondhand I could tell from unused fittings, with a rotten frame. ...

Only about a £40 a week saving in fuel for me, I'm also lucky the company is making up the 80% to 100.% pay for the 12 week duration. About 10% of the factory staff are WFH, I would guess there are another 10-20% are on the twelve week enforced stay-at-home vulnerable group like me. The rest are at work with overtime trying to keep production up.. Our products are indirectly used by all the services including the NHS, as well as temperature monitoring for food stuffs by most supermarkets and their suppliers. Expenses will go up slightly as stuff I need to use to work on sorting the house maintenance will have to be delivered.. I'll have to go shopping Monday, I don't have a cloth mask, but I do have an industrial face mask with changeable filters, and heavy rubber gloves, that will put the frighteners on the others...

Me too, at the moment I'm mostly rebuilding the sailing boat in the garden. Plus the usual garden / house maintenance. At some point I'll have to go down to the motorboat (10miles) to top up the batteries all 24 of them. It will be house, to landrover, to car park at the SC, row across the river in our tender, service the batteries and give the boat a wash and brush up. I'll take sarnies and drink, no usual cafe trip midday,. Then return, no contact with anyone. Time for a Muggacoffee then overalls on to go work on a keel.

Please be careful using the NDR this morning, Both the Wroxham road and Coltishall road roundabouts have large diesel spills on them and the Wroxham road roundabout has added pea shingle.. I'm glad I'm not on the motorbike..

Well the Norwich Model railway on April the 4th is Cancelled, so they are provisionally rebooking for APR 2021. For the foreseeable future I think we can say all model railway shows are cancelled until further notice..

Horning and Hickling Sailing Clubs have cancelled racing and other events until further notice..( Though private sailing may continue) Not seen anything from any other club. The RYA have also cancelled all their events UFN.

Website now updated show cancelled..