Maximum Bob

This is the view from my kitchen window, now I have built a log store. I looked around the web, and various places were charging ridiculous money for a wood frame with a top on it, none of them really big enough, so we decided to build our own.

Tesco were charging £150 for this, which looks okay, but is only 1.7m high and 1.5m wide, with a depth of 65cm.

I designed one using Sketchup:

The measurements were guesstimates, because I found it quite hard (first time I’d used the software) to make the components resemble the real-world items I’d be buying. Still, I had a good idea of what I needed and how it would fit together. Having built a virtual model, I found I could construct the real thing in an afternoon.

It may not be the greatest piece of craftsmanship in the world, but it is about 2m tall and 1.8m wide, with enough depth for two rows of logs. More pics are on Flickr, so click the link on the photos to see more. The logs inside are the ones we got from chopping down trees (a conifer hedge that I hated) in the front garden. We won’t burn most of them till Winter 2009/10, so I’ll buy some seasoned hardwood for use next winter.

In other news, I’ve started a photo blog, using a new WordPress theme called Monotone, which adjusts the colour of the page to match the tone of the photo. I’ve uploaded a few photos to get started, and will add others from time to time. I might prefer this to Flickr, which I find irritating for reasons I’ve previously mentioned. The latest annoyance happened the other day, when some bloke left a comment (note: not even a polite private message) more or less demanding that I send him a higher-resolution version of a picture so he could use it.

Now, photos of mine have been used by others on occasions, a couple of books, but the person involved has always sent me a private message and asked permission. I appreciate that English is not the first language of perhaps the majority of Flickr users, but manners are manners all over the world. Needless to say, I did not respond. In fact, I deleted the comment, and blocked the person, putting him in the same category as all the pervs I have blocked on Flickr.