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So a little idea that has been rattling around in my noggin since I was about nine years old came to fruition recently. We've built these underground 'hides' for the anglers to fish from.

@The Hobo @Casper @JessThePlasterer

It'd been some weeks since I'd managed to get out on the bank. Just out for the day, the day before yesterday and had these two at 17lb 8oz and 17lb 9oz.

Sadly no bream this week @ChrispyUK had to put up with this.

Another proud dad moment for me.

Just settled in at the Pool, opened a Speckled Hen and thought I'd listen to a bit of football on the radio. Radio 5Live is first choice. Ah ladies football, I'm not listening to that, so tune into TalkSport. f**k me backwards, some thing on there. Has the world gone totally bonkers already...

Well I enjoyed a lovely afternoon today. Beautiful weather, kingfishers scooting about and this beauty to top it off.

Fishing is still allowed under the new lockdown restrictions.

I spent a few hours working a perch pattern jighead at the Pool this afternoon. Resulted in four jacks and one dropped. @The Hobo @ChrispyUK

Daft enough to be out on this wet, windy and quite chilly evening?

Your sort of fishing tonight @algeeman.

Any of you lot driving the Citroen Dispatch?

Ok I finally got round to getting my Ritmo out of the garage and dusted it down. It's a Powercoat 110v, but with a difference. The chassis was stripped down and rebuild by PFT with an upgraded motor before being sent over from Germany. Once bought I had UK Plastering Machines fit the larger...

@The Hobo get the rods dusted off matey, good to go from Wednesday. Oh shite sorry Norm I forgot you're under the control of wee crankie. Come on @ChrispyUK it's game on.

I will 100% be abusive to many of you. I will act like a complete cock in some of your options. I will 100% not be meeting you at a bus stop, or...... Traveling to your home.... Or sending the boys round.... For any kind of dust up or to stab you or any other form of violence. I'm here to...

@The Hobo @ChrispyUK A couple from the weekend before it all went tits up.

Ok guys something I never thought I'd do, ask you tossers a question about s&c rendering. I've got just two days left to finish a job. Perfectly safe, no contact with anyone or anything that anyone has touched in days. Problem is I just can't get hold of any hydrated lime. Have any of you clowns...

@The Hobo here you go Norm thought you'd like these. 15lb+ and 11lb+ from my little place. @ChrispyUK

As above, even @lurpak . Have a great day, especially those with young children.

Ok you peasants, what is your poison tonight? @algeeman @John j @zombie @bof @ChrispyUK @malc @carys @Simon85 @johniosaif @JessThePlasterer I've a little treat for myself.

@lurpak @John j @zombie @bof @Vincey and all other domestic lads. What do you do when faced with walls covered in wallpaper paste? I've always been of the opinion that it should be completely removed, and not by me. Your opinions are valued, yes even yours John.

So @smoother09 this is specially for you. @theclemo could you please express deliver one of your most excellent ropes to my good friend smoother9, many thanks.

Right you bunch of knobheads my son and I have dissolved our limited company and reverted to sole trading and have got a new website. Please take a look and give me some honest feedback (like you wouldn't anyway, you bastards). www.adchapmanplastering.co.uk

Oi pikey @algeeman my son's band have put some of their last gig up on YouTube. @lurpak @Cockney1 @John j @JessThePlasterer @smoother09 That's my little boy on the left playing bass guitar.

@ChrispyUK @The Hobo

This is my son's band and I'd like to dedicate this track called Andy 10 pints to @algeeman our animal spread and drinker.

Keith Flint of Prodigy has died. I'm very very sad. Now cheer me up by putting some of their tunes up here you wankers.

So how many of you constantly get asked to price projects for firms that are tendering for the project themselves? In other words they're asking you to price work they don't have. I priced up three projects for a firm a couple of years ago and didn't hear a word from them as to whether they'd...

So we're on a re-render and despite taking precautions a stone cill gets broken. Oops! Sorry @lurpak no Artex was used but I thought @Vincey is sad enough to be interested.

@Danny @ChrispyUK @The Hobo I was having a little go for the pike and perch using a 5g perch pattern jighead when this grabbed it and put an almighty bend in my light lure rod.

As per title. I know @theclemo has mentioned this before. Who's done it and is it iyho viable?

So we're gunning the old render off of old red bricks and there are strips of wood the thickness of laths set into the brickwork every six courses. Why? I've ask on another thread but @imago couldn't give a definitive answer, @Nisus refuses to lower himself to answer such stupid questions and...

Well it has been beautiful weather here all weekend and Saturday I spent a couple of hours fishing. @ChrispyUK

Hardly a straightforward job and possibly the worst carpentry I've ever tried to get over. Luckily my son has loads of patience when it comes to boarding. Let's hope I have when I start skimming it tomorrow.

@Lox some render using bagged materials.

Some sand and cement renders for @Lox

@Lox this is especially for you. A little bit of Parex Mono Blanco finished with a float and sponge.

So go some nice ceiling shapes to do on this job and thought 'what better time than now to use Pure Finish for the first time'. So @Vincey what do you think?

First back using Multifinish this week after staying away from it for months. Absolutely f**k**g awful shite. First trowel, everything looks fine. Second trowel, no water other than on the blade of the carbon steel trowel, f**k**g tiger stripes everywhere. After thirty-seven years I'm second...

I'm out fishing for the night (big surprise). You out @ChrispyUK or others?

Go and have Sunday dinner at the mother-in-laws or sit down the Pool in the pissing rain. Anyway it hasn't stopped raining all afternoon, but I can't hear the old bat from here so much nicer.

Ok this afternoon I had a very (1:18) long phone call with a guy from BG. I felt that it was a very good two sided conversation with someone that both understands our trade and wants to help get Multifinish to a point where I'm (we're) happy with it. I'm not going to go into all the ins and outs...

@Vincey Picked up a brand new Permashape on the way to work this morning. Open box, mix gear and then use new trowel from start to finish on a ceiling.

Calm down @Marshy So how many, if any, of you are using the Marshalltown Flappers instead of a wide brush?

Ok you bunch we've finally had our website updated and live. My son has put loads of time and effort it getting everything together. Let me know what you think or any mistakes you spot. I'm well prepared for all the piss taking so don't hold back. www.sandonplastering.co.uk

We're about fifteen bags into our current pallet of multi and every one has had little bits of paper mixed in it. A right pain in the balls. Has anyone else been finding any? Be interesting to know before I give BG a call.

We have a job coming up in a couple months where the client is interested in us using MP Finish, so I give Knauf a call asking about getting a couple of sample bags. 'No problem' they say, I then speak to my area rep who also says he'll sort it. The weeks go by and not a word from Knauf, the...

We sprayed some Monorex EHI GF yesterday and the Ritmo was running at over 7amps and cut out a couple of times. We put this down to having the gear to stiff so adjusted the water to the point I wouldn't have wanted the gear any wetter but we were still getting a reading over 5.5amps. Is this...

As above on my own place, I'd never do something for the first time on a paying customers house. So far just boarded and mesh/basecoated but thought I'd stick a few pics up so that perhaps the more experienced guys could point out any mistakes or improvements we could make in the future...