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Su Poole
2005-06-20, 8:11am
We worked on putting a wooden pergola (ooooooooooh, how POSH!) around the shed since it's so visible from the canalside and towpath. So, here's the progress of the Shedhenge!
http://www.tillerman.co.uk/pics/shedhenge1.jpg
The shed before the new enclosure
http://www.tillerman.co.uk/pics/shedhenge2.jpg
OMG, you can get them in a DIY bundle! Is that how they did the one down in Salisbury?
http://www.tillerman.co.uk/pics/shedhenge2a.jpg
Holy cow, there's more to it? Where's the instructions, and why are they in runes?
http://www.tillerman.co.uk/pics/shedhenge3.jpg
Just in time for the summer solstice, however a bit more room for frolicking around the posts would have been nice! Where did the druids go?
http://www.tillerman.co.uk/pics/shedhenge4.jpg
Just a lick of paint, a few more screws and it's Margarita time in Yorkshire!
Oh, I forgot. Proof there really is a Mike! Yes, he's wearing protective glasses, you just can't see them from that angle.
http://www.tillerman.co.uk/pics/mikey.jpg
-Su
Shedhenge *chuckle* it looks cozy :)
Su Poole
2005-06-20, 10:01am
Shedhenge *chuckle* it looks cozy :)
Too cosy for Mike to share! *sniff*
I may have to get my own shed if I want to make glass beads. At least he works in there every day which is good! He's finished the new ventilation box too which he's really happy with.
-Su
starlia
2005-06-20, 10:14am
Very cool photos and I love sh*dhenge. Remember to use that sh*d word lightly. LOL
JCHerrellGlass
2005-06-20, 10:57am
Love it! Love it! Love it! Mike looks like a handsome man from the back (any man in a tropical shirt is). I want a shedhenge, too! Where's the canal? Where's the boat?
JC
Su Poole
2005-06-20, 2:26pm
Thanks, JC. Come on over and I'll make him turn around. He's really nice for a guy. You can't see it well but the avatar pic is us out on the boat over Easter.
Here's a pic of my guys two years ago, just fishin' up on the Montgomery canal in Wales.
http://www.tillerman.co.uk/pics/fishinguys.jpg
And here's the boat in winter:
http://www.tillerman.co.uk/pics/snowboat.jpg
Yup, it does look that long when you're standing on the stern and trying to see around a bend of the canal or through a bridge hole.
-Su
Craftylady
2005-06-21, 4:17am
Su do you live on this boat? If so is the shed on the dock right outside the boat? That is a cool shed I really like that.
Laurie
Su Poole
2005-06-21, 11:40am
Su do you live on this boat? If so is the shed on the dock right outside the boat? That is a cool shed I really like that.
Laurie
Yes we do, it's been our home for almost 8 years now. The shed's just to the right of the walkway in the pic of the boat in the snow.
We love it. It's great, almost 3000 miles of canals from here to London and back.
-Su
Craftylady
2005-06-21, 11:42am
Yes we do, it's been our home for almost 8 years now. The shed's just to the right of the walkway in the pic of the boat in the snow.
We love it. It's great, almost 3000 miles of canals from here to London and back.
-Su
That is so neat. Thanks for sharing.
Laurie
<GIBBER>
I want to come visit the SH*D! I want to come visit the SH*D! <sob>
CD Lampwork
2005-06-23, 1:51pm
Geez and I thought manuvering our 35' RV around corners was tough! That is seriously cool. My best friend and his wife plan on moving onto a boat as soon as their son leaves home. Though not a barge style, more of a big sail boat. We still haven't figured out how they're gonna make beads on a sail boat....
starlia
2005-06-23, 2:13pm
<GIBBER>
I want to come visit the SH*D! I want to come visit the SH*D! <sob>
Do you think we could paddle ourselves there in a double kayak? \\:D/
Hey, I *have* a double kayak.... <scheming>
starlia
2005-06-23, 6:15pm
I bet with the two of us paddling we could get there before the weather turns...cold.
Put the kettle on, Su! We're on our way! ;)
starlia
2005-06-23, 7:48pm
It's going to take a few days to get there via bike. First have to get my front tire fixed but after that I'm on my way.
ChaseDesigns
2005-06-23, 8:09pm
OMG Su that is so cool! Can we see pictures of the inside of your barge? Do you take it along the canal often?
Su Poole
2005-06-24, 1:54am
I've only got a few pictures of the inside, we're doing some remodelling so everything's a mess but here's a pic of the place where my laptop lives:
http://www.tillermanbeads.co.uk/pics/office.jpg
Here's the boat in the ice before we put up the SH*D:
http://www.tillermanbeads.co.uk/pics/preshed.jpg
And here's the elusive Mike on the boat in a lock just up canal from our home:
http://www.tillermanbeads.co.uk/pics/gauxholme.jpg
That's a cast iron Victorian railway bridge that is still in use now, trains every half-hour between Manchester and York.
-Su
PS, it's a narrowboat as it's only 7' wide, barges are 14'. Luxury! I'd kill sometimes to have that double width. But then I'd have to wear those weird Cleopatra outfits. :lol:
Su Poole
2005-06-24, 1:56am
<GIBBER>
I want to come visit the SH*D! I want to come visit the SH*D! <sob>
Get your butt in that kayak then!
I'd dress warmly, though. The ocean gets a bit chilly.
-Su
Su Poole
2005-06-24, 1:58am
Geez and I thought manuvering our 35' RV around corners was tough! That is seriously cool. My best friend and his wife plan on moving onto a boat as soon as their son leaves home. Though not a barge style, more of a big sail boat. We still haven't figured out how they're gonna make beads on a sail boat....
I wouldn't imagine it's that hard to make beads on a sailboat, you just have to wait till the waves calm down!
Oddly enough, my younger sister just bought a sailboat to live on in Milwaukee. I think she's just a copycat. At least we don't get the same kind of waves on the canals, although the winter gales up here in the Pennines are pretty wild sometimes. I was genuinely worried that the shed would blow away last year.
-Su
tyedesigns
2005-06-24, 9:02am
Hello wow I really love your house to cool . Looks like it's really long ? Thanks for sharing photos :) Gina
Su Poole
2005-06-24, 2:20pm
Hello wow I really love your house to cool . Looks like it's really long ? Thanks for sharing photos :) Gina
70' long by 7' wide. A good portion of the British canal system allows one boat this size maximum per lock, some sections allow two boats to share side-by-side. Either way, it's great fun.
It's our home, a two-bedroom cottage that floats, really.
:-D
-Su
Thats the coolest home I've ever seen!
- Jim
Su Poole
2005-06-25, 1:37am
Thats the coolest home I've ever seen!
- Jim
Thanks! I was a bit dubious about trying to travel alone on a 55' boat on my own which is what I did for six months on my first trip to the UK. It turned out to be like living with another being, as the boats make noises and seem to breathe. On a hot, sunny morning the steel expands and makes the wood panelling creak, the sun ripples off the water and makes moire' patterns on the ceiling.
And if you get bored of the neighbors, you can untie, travel a few miles and get away from everyone and everything.
-Su
ChaseDesigns
2005-06-25, 4:59am
Thank you for sharing Su. That is so cool!!!!!!
Su Poole
2005-06-25, 7:00am
My pleasure, we are really proud of our little floating home.
I could bore anyone to death over it!
-Su
Get your butt in that kayak then!
I'd dress warmly, though. The ocean gets a bit chilly.
-Su
When Starlia gets here on her bike, we'll put our sweaters on, push the kayak into the ocean and paddle off!
Su Poole
2005-06-26, 1:54am
When Starlia gets here on her bike, we'll put our sweaters on, push the kayak into the ocean and paddle off!
Have fun! Don't forget your iPods, it's a long trip.
-Su
NicNacBeads
2005-06-26, 2:40am
When Starlia gets here on her bike, we'll put our sweaters on, push the kayak into the ocean and paddle off!
Wait until August for me! I wanna come! :)
Su Poole
2005-06-26, 4:12pm
Wait until August for me! I wanna come! :)
They way they're paddling you could wait till September and still make it!
:-D
-Su
Kalera
2005-06-26, 10:54pm
Maybe we shouldn't have had those margaritas before starting? I think we're going in circles...
NicNacBeads
2005-06-26, 11:27pm
Oh.. sorry I was paddling the wrong direction! :)
Ohh.. wouldnt that be so nice to get away for a while??
Kalera
2005-06-26, 11:54pm
Yeah... right now I just come here and I'm "away" in my imagination... :)
Su Poole
2005-06-29, 12:45am
Once it stops raining for the summer and before the colder winter rain sets in I'll try to get a photo of the entire sh*d complex including the finished 'henge.
I'm here in my mind often too! Fortunately it's not a long trip because brain fatigue is not my friend.
-Su
Jill Hoblick
2005-07-15, 10:08am
Absolutely Incredible! Thanks for sharing! I find it so interesting! I would love to hear more about it! Jill
JCHerrellGlass
2005-07-15, 10:28am
SU! You should hook yourself up with a torch and shed right next to Mike's. That way you can buy an OxyGen and share hookups... without having to share space! (I know I can't stand it when my husband lurks in my studio when I'm working.) You know you want to torch... There will be no glass widows in your house... nay, boat!
JC
Su Poole
2005-07-18, 1:18pm
SU! You should hook yourself up with a torch and shed right next to Mike's. That way you can buy an OxyGen and share hookups... without having to share space! (I know I can't stand it when my husband lurks in my studio when I'm working.) You know you want to torch... There will be no glass widows in your house... nay, boat!
JC
LOL. We just spent the weekend in Scarborough at a stunning place, a farm that's a stained glass workshop, B&B and also has a lampwork studio in it! We had to be chased away with brooms and the dogs were set on us to encourage us to leave one we'd paid our bill! Well, not really but we wanted to stay so much it hurt! Every room has stained glass windows or decorations. We talked to them about some stained glass overlays for the portholes on the boat, which will be so cool.
We don't have room for another shed, our landlord would have a cow if we did put up another shed. I am trying to gently convince Mike we need to just rent some studio space so there's room for us both. As we have two oxycons we could each have our own..... but he's not buying it yet. *sigh*
I won't give up. I want to melt glass! Waaaaah.
-Su
Su Poole
2005-07-18, 1:20pm
Absolutely Incredible! Thanks for sharing! I find it so interesting! I would love to hear more about it! Jill
Thanks, Jill.
Among the many other things I keep planning to do is a page showing our travels aboard our boat. Now that I've managed to get our shopping cart working (which took a month and begging for help from everyone, and finally paying someone to fix it...) I have some free time which means I may actually get that page done!
ooh, was that a flying pig? :-D
-Su
lunesse
2005-07-20, 8:37am
Hooray for Sheds!
So, is untying like a casual idea for you guys? "Honey, feel like floating away today?" Do you make plans with destinations? Or just drift, as it were.... ;)
Su Poole
2005-07-20, 12:25pm
Hooray for Sheds!
So, is untying like a casual idea for you guys? "Honey, feel like floating away today?" Do you make plans with destinations? Or just drift, as it were.... ;)
It can be either. When Mike was teaching, we had the school holidays to travel in, the summer break in the UK is six weeks, which we'd normally use to travel from Manchester down through the Midlands, probably just short of Birmingham, up through Wales, over to Chester and maybe around Shropshire via the canals. You can stop anywhere that isn't a reserved mooring site, some places in very popular city areas restrict moorings to 24 or 48 hours but most places have a 2-week limit You untie, set off and stop somewhere else then. Mostly near pubs if you're of that sort, or out in the middle of nowhere if you want peace and quiet.
We've been from Manchester to London and back in a summer, with side-trips along the way, and we'll be back out doing that again next summer with any luck. This summer we're having an off-boat holiday to Cornwall instead.
Even on weekends we like to untie if the weather's good, travel a few miles (and locks) and tie up somewhere else just because we can.
-Su
Teagirl
2007-01-31, 2:53am
Well, we're updating the info on the mooring and shed. Due to Mike's health issues with his feet, which have kept him from doing his regular profession of being an art teacher for almost three years, we're now unable to travel on the boat any longer, so it's up for sale, including the shed etc.
Anyone wanting a nice floating summer home in the UK, or anyone in the UK wanting a nice home for all year round, let us know. It does include Shedhenge, by the way.
-Su
one-eared pig
2007-02-01, 4:37pm
ooooo, so tempting! I'm sorry you have to move.
LoriBird
2007-02-02, 4:57am
I just found this thread...and called dh over and we enjoyed it together! We're so sorry to hear you have to move :( He wants to know if you guys fished off of it....him being an avid carp fisherman....and you being in England where that's a popular fish to fish for.
Lori
Teagirl
2007-02-03, 4:47am
We have HUGE tame carp in our stretch of canal, a school of about 8 or 9. As the canal here is barely 3' deep at times, it was funny watching them feed as they'd have their heads in the mud and their tails waving out of the water trying to get into position. Every day around 5pm a whole pod of them (they looked like tiny whales) would cruise up and down our stretch of canal, and eat the bread we'd roll into little balls so it would sink.
Sadly, I think most of them are gone. We had a local influx of workers from some of the new EU countries who are employed at a factory alongside the canal, and they see carp as a cheap food source. The local angling club had to threaten the factory with a law suit as here in the UK it's a catch and release system, the hooks don't have barbs on them and anything you catch has to be put back in after weighing.
We haven't seen the biggest guys around in a while, I'm hoping they're just chilling during the winter but I doubt that's what has happened. *sigh* We get pike here too, not as big as a muskellunge but plenty of teeth. The water is so clear during the fall-spring seasons that any food we scrape off the plates that ends up in the canal just below the hatch is like a buffet for the fish. They love beans and pasta most.
We're sad to sell the boat but we accept that Mike's health simply means it's not an option for us now. We're hoping to find a small rental of some sort out higher up in the moorland, with a little cottage and perhaps an outbuilding for a studio. Fingers crossed!
As they say, one door closes another opens, just don't stand behind it or you might get smacked in the nose!
-Su
LoriBird
2007-02-04, 6:01am
awwwww you have dh ready to move....LOL!!! He always does catch and release.
xoxolori
Teagirl
2007-02-04, 11:49am
I'll see if any of the guys are still around tomorrow, it's been cold so they usually just lie low.
Heavy frost for the last two days but the canal hasn't frozen yet, although it will before the month is over, February is always the worst month here.
It's still up for sale but we have someone coming for a viewing this week.
-Su
barclayb
2007-02-08, 12:35pm
it's adorable - I hope your new door opening leads you to something even happier
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