One of my proudest moments was when...
I converted a chest of draws into a desk by removing the draws, that was a proud moment!

The post above reminds me of the old house I used to live in. The guy that we bought it off saw himself as some sort of DIY demi god and thus built everything himself.

For example, he built a pond but in his infinite wisdom decided to build half of it outside the house and half of it inside the conservatory (which he also built) this resulted in frogs leaping round the house. How they got upstairs I will never know.

As mentioned he also built the conservatory which was watertight akin to that of a sieve. On a rainy day there where about 7 buckets dotted around the place trying to catch the pesky liquid that is sky water.

I feel sorry for whoever owns that house now!
(Rt Hon Quargflax, Thu 3 Apr 2008, 18:01, 4 replies)

i love
the idea of the pond!

Horrible impractical though.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Thu 3 Apr 2008, 19:26, closed)

I would imagine the frogs got upstairs
by hopping.

I stayed at a neat hotel once where the pool was half indoors and half outdoors....it had a glass wall across the portion where the two connected that dipped about 6 inches into the water.
( flirting with badgers What? It sounded good at the time., Fri 4 Apr 2008, 0:47, closed)

@Badgers
Surely that's an excellent way of doing things- it'd cut their heating bills (no draughts AND a big glass window to help keep in the heat) and have the bug-retardant properties of a wall.
( uberdeity Wondered why Owen Lars knew of the term "hell" on, Fri 4 Apr 2008, 12:50, closed)

leaks
i think he made my conservatory too
(pogo_it, Tue 8 Apr 2008, 15:08, closed)