Viewe

The last few days Ive been painting the front sides of an old cott, awkward job due to the state of the paintwork but look at the views from the ladder! Typically i forgot my camera yesterday when the visibility was better.



Looking towards bristol over the severn



Countryside the other way:



strangely the owners dont actually like the riverviewe and you cant really see it from the garden

 

Lovely Pro-


I`m sure they will come to love it should Redrow make a land purchase.

 

:Dnice view that an nearly see me house lol

 

Pro, I envy you young ones gardening for a living. When i left school you could be a nursery nurse a shop assistant or basically go on the dole. If you didnt have fantastic exam results in the 70's you even struggled to get a cleaning job. I had two children before I had my first garden, immediately I was hooked. Do you think I have left it to late to take up gardening as a part time job. Cheers 02.

 

Its never to late :thumb:

 

Ditto.

 

No. Do it O2.:thumb::thumb::thumb::thumb:

 

Lovely views Paul, I would have ended up with paint everywhere looking round at views like that.

 

You're sposed to be working not looking at the view lol. That cott looks like a nightmare to paint cause its all bumpy.

 

LMR,

Your right.

The walls are terrible, a normal long pile sheepskin roller wont work on them as its so rough it needs a special order extra extra long pile foam backed roller.

Normaly id cut in from a ladder then use an extension pole and roll from ground level but the old paint was blown in places and had to be scraped off so virtually all had to be done off ladder.

Makes a change from my normal gardening/ landscapeing work but i wouldnt want to do it (painting) for a living FT.

 

:thumb:My kind of work!!If you get a little bored,just turn your head and soak up the view

BTW...Do you know the place called Shirenewton,near Chepstow....?

 

Pal, yes its around 20 mins drive from me. I ocasionally do work around there.

 

Am I correct in saying it's pronounced'Shrivingham'?...I worked there at the time the Stadium in Cardiff was opened,in the Manor house.

 

Yes, by the locals.

I know the manor house, a lovely old building.

 

:rolleyes:Nice house..but the owner was a right knob!...I think he had just sold the Airport and his wife owned the well known Pie made in Wales..?