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I think today's worker is the owner of the company, he certainly is the assessor.
He worked a lot later than those without the vested interest there. 😆 I finished work at my job before he did! 🤭
All the wood was sanded down and remaining nude wood given some paint. We have a test plank in the foreground of the first picture here which is painted with a second coat of paint. Seems likely we lose all the wood grain when doing that, and so will prefer the paler look where it's obviously made of wood not paint.
Won't really know for sure till it's dry. Prefer the colour a bit darker like that but if we're hiding the wood grain we might as well have used MDF instead of pine. We're after something clearly made of wood.
Another area is test-painted with just the clearcoat top varnish as a second layer. That's likely to be right, just a bit more shiny and protected.
The carpenter proper is back from holiday and starts tomorrow. He has a lot of drawers and doors to build and edging to attach to make the door panels. Still hoping at least the carpentry will be pretty much all done by the end of the week but likely some painting and touching up still to do next week. Hopefully by the end of Tuesday because I'm not really able to be here all day each day for most of the two weeks after that.

Good Morning #Canada
Did you know that a Dodecahedron is a 12-letter name for any 12-sided shape. And did you also know that on this day in 1962, the Canadian Government decreed that our dodecahedron nickel was decadent and that round was right. Pre-1962 nickels are now pretty worth a nickel, but a coin in "mint condition" has been known to fetch a few pennies more.
Have you noticed there are more coin buying events in your neighbourhoods over the past few years? Some of that activity is driven by buyers taking advantage of people wanting to sell old jewelry, collectibles, or jars of coins that are sitting in the back of drawers or closets. But the rise of digital transactions, particularly increased during COVID when no one wanted to touch your infected money, has increased the collectible value of coins and, in some cases, the actual metal value exceeds the face value.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Numismatist
http://canadiancoinnews.com/otd-12-sided-five-cent-coin-becomes-round/

Steil achterovergeslagen van dit doorwrochte item van #Lubach.
Ik wist dat het niet goed ging met de Europese auto-industrie maar het is echt 10 of 20 keer zo erg. En in plaats van bij te sturen rijden we alleen maar harder op het ravijn af.
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The scourge of automatic hand dryers (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/11/25/paper-towels-hand-dryers-wash-clean-germs/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251125/p59#a251125p59

Vor #Rügen hat der Bau des Offshore-Windparks #Windanker begonnen.
Er ergänzt die #Windparks #Wikinger

Baustart für letzten Windpark von Dreierverbund vor Rügen
Der Windpark Windanker soll eine Dreiergruppe von Offshore-Windpark nordöstlich vor Rügen vervollständigen. Nun ist der Bau gestartet. Weitere Parks sind bereits geplant.

It's a bit hard to read because my daughter's camera is pretty bad, but the section of the pantry that the cat is sleeping in is labeled "random". #CatsOfMastodon

Moskau widerspricht Trump: Kein Dreiergipfel mit Selenskyj geplant
Russland hat der Darstellung von US-Präsident Donald Trump über Absprachen für ein geplantes Dreier-Gipfeltreffen mit dem ukrainischen Präsidenten Wolodymyr Selenskyj widersprochen. Kremlchef Wladimir Putins außenpolitischer Berater Juri Uschakow sagte dem russischen Staatsfernsehen am Rande des Gipfeltreffens der Shanghaier Organisation für Zusammenarbeit (SO…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Spahn und Miersch treffen Selenskyj ++
Die Vorsitzenden der Koalitionsfraktionen, Spahn und Miersch, sind bei einem Besuch in Kiew von Präsident Selenskyj empfangen worden. Serbiens Präsident Vucic will in China mit Putin zusammenkommen.

The windowed doors are definitely the thing that really makes it, but the paneling trim going on today helps a lot too. More of that to be done still, just on the draws and chests really. Can't do the short draws because the clearance is too tight and they'd block the big drawers from opening.

Three drawers is the number of drawers that can be done in a day apparently. Leaving the two hardest ones (too small to operate inside the box and hang the rails I guess?)
Carpenter is very much looking forward to not having to drive to North London every day so don't think we'll get more than just tomorrow out of him.
Drawers work well though, feeling more solid than the flatpack half-cardboard Ikea/Argos stuff I'm more used to.

Final day of having the carpenter here. A lot of sawing. Built the dresser desk drawers, cut all the perspex into shape for the windowed doors that fit together now but still need gluing.
The dresser drawers are just about big enough to put the hairdryer in, so that's nice.
Still quite a bit for the other workers to do. Detailing for panels on the doors, gluing and hanging the window doors, handles and painting and touch ups. They reckon another 5 days work still, only two of which can be next week because I have stuff to do.
Must be weird being a builder and finishing your part of the job then never seeing it completed. He's done all this great work on it but will only see the completed work if he has to come back for something else. And he doesn't want to come back coz he's fed up of driving across London 😆