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Garden Office Building? What do you recommend?
"Stephen Kellett" wrote in message
... In message , Tim Ward writes out what it means? Or is this a deliberate political statement about the status of Northern Ireland? What? I'm trying to work out why someone should invent "UKP" in preference to using the ISO standard "GBP". That was the only explanation I could come up with, Northern Ireland being in UK but not in GB, I thought that perhaps someone who wanted to make a political statement about Northern Ireland being part of the UK would object to using "GBP". Can you think of any other reason for inventing "UKP"? Good grief Tim, you are over-analysing way too much. I've seen UKP used before, it hasn't been invented to make a political stand. But someone must have invented it for some reason. It makes no sense to go round inventing currency codes when there are already perfectly good standard ones - write an invented private one of your own on a bank document, for example, and it won't work. I guess people do rather less of this in everyday life now that cash cards have replaced Eurocheques, so not everybody carries the leaflet with the codes in their wallet any more, but the things are still in common enough usage that one can be expected to know the code for one's own currency! So, despite the existence of "GBP" which has unambiguous meaning worldwide on any documents written in any language, someone goes and invents "UKP", which on the day they invented it meant nothing to anybody other than themselves. Why?? -- Tim Ward - posting as an individual unless otherwise clear Brett Ward Ltd - www.brettward.co.uk Cambridge Accommodation Notice Board - www.brettward.co.uk/canb Cambridge City Councillor |
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On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 15:52:01 +0100, "Tim Ward" wrote:
snip So, despite the existence of "GBP" which has unambiguous meaning worldwide on any documents written in any language, someone goes and invents "UKP", which on the day they invented it meant nothing to anybody other than themselves. UKPE-BAYOBIRI: a language of Nigeria SIL code: UKP http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=UKP :-) J Why?? -- Tim Ward - posting as an individual unless otherwise clear Brett Ward Ltd - www.brettward.co.uk Cambridge Accommodation Notice Board - www.brettward.co.uk/canb Cambridge City Councillor |
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On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 12:04:55 +0100, "Tim Ward"
wrote: I'm trying to work out why someone should invent "UKP" in preference to using the ISO standard "GBP". Because the ISO are looking to charge for use of such codes, and it's not worth the risking the licensing costs? Jim. |
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"..........Some servers will strip the Some servers will strip the
characters and replace them with blanks, some sill simply drop that particular post on the floor. Since you're a gardener, the best response is probably "there, there, don't you worry it's a bit technical." Pity they don't strip sarcastic characters, especially those that cant even spell but rely totally on spell checker........."some sill simply" Must be nice to be so intelligent. And for your information to be a modern "Gardener " you have to be a builder, a plumber, a gas fitter, a chemist, a botanist, an entomologist and be willing to work up to 15 hours a day in season and 7 days a week. -- David Hill Abacus nurseries www.abacus-nurseries.co.uk |
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"...... I am thinking about getting a garden office......"
I do hope you look into the requirements regarding planning permission with your local council -- David Hill Abacus nurseries www.abacus-nurseries.co.uk |
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Pity they don't strip sarcastic characters, especially those that cant even spell but rely totally on spell checker........."some sill simply" Must be nice to be so intelligent. Er, David, be careful. You omitted an apostrophe in "can't". Also, if referring to living people you'd have been better saying, "those who" rather than "those that". Anyone can make a typo. Mary -- David Hill Abacus nurseries www.abacus-nurseries.co.uk |
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David Hill wrote:
"..........Some servers will strip the Some servers will strip the characters and replace them with blanks, some sill simply drop that particular post on the floor. That's a misquote, I didn't type "Some servers will strip the" twice. My typo is noted. Since you're a gardener, the best response is probably "there, there, don't you worry it's a bit technical." Pity they don't strip sarcastic characters, especially those that cant even spell but rely totally on spell checker........."some sill simply" Must be nice to be so intelligent. "can't" and that IMO is a rather more serious error than a typo. I don't use a spell checker, your clairvoyance appears to be on the wane. And for your information to be a modern "Gardener " you have to be a builder, a plumber, a gas fitter, a chemist, a botanist, an entomologist and be willing to work up to 15 hours a day in season and 7 days a week. But you don't have to be particularly good at any of those trades. Nor particularly informed before going off on a rant, it seems. Oh well, off you go Dirty Fingered Sid, back to pricking out behind the potting shed. -- Mathematicians, please don't drink and derive. |
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"Kev" wrote in message . 254.254... (William.R.Reisen) wrote in om: Hi, I am thinking about getting a garden office. I've just finished doing the same job - but using ordinary building materials, mostly bought second-hand via Adtrader. My 16ft x 10ft office cost 1200ukp and looks great. It's built of breeze blocks, rendered and painted. The roof is properly tiled with slates and terracotta ridge tiles. Two double glazed UPVC windows and a pair of Wickes UPVC french doors let in plenty of light and fresh air. Second hand items: Roof trusses £100 Windows £60 Slates £180 Remainder: 6 metres ready-mix £240. Blocks £264. French doors £199. Ridge tiles £54. Sand. cement & timber made up the balance. I've added a false chimney for birds to nest in and a bit of trellis & planting to blend it all in. Now the wife is threatening to make a take-over bid...... I did all the work myself - never done anuthing like it before but it all came out perfectly. It has taken just over three months and the only tough bits were digging out the footings and laying the blocks up the apex of the roof. If you don't have the time, try advertising for a pensioner to do it for you! |
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My cousin has a two of those seagoing containers in his garden to house his collection of antique motorcycles and the workshop that goes with them. But they look awfull, unless you put a wood frame around and clad it. Which may be feasible. --- Hi As has been mentioned planning permision would more than likely be required, I'd be wary though, if you stride into the planning office asking for permission to build an office in the back garden then the answer will probably be no. A garden room, studio or the like would probably be better recieved. With this in mind, lorry containers would probably require some window dressing to make then acceptable. The prefab timber buildings are pretty good these days as are the Border Oak http://www.borderoak.com/Garages.htm type timber framed buildings, I guess it's down to asthetics and your budget at the end of the day. If you want some more info on highly insulated timber panel structures you could try contacting a guy called John Hayden, I worked with him a few years ago and he's branched out into constructing small garden rooms, he only works in the old Avon county area, so is probably not in your area. He might be able to offer some advice though. his mail is - haydengardenrooms - you know what goes here - btopenworld.com You could also try posting in alt.architecture but I warn you things can lean towards the insane in there at times :-) HTH Tim |
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(Jim Ley) writes:
On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 12:04:55 +0100, "Tim Ward" wrote: I'm trying to work out why someone should invent "UKP" in preference to using the ISO standard "GBP". Because the ISO are looking to charge for use of such codes, and it's not worth the risking the licensing costs? Yeah. Right. Buy better drugs. -- "The road to Paradise is through Intercourse." The uk.transport FAQ; http://www.huge.org.uk/transport/FAQ.html [email me at huge [at] huge [dot] org [dot] uk] |
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My cousin has a two of those seagoing containers in his garden to house his collection of antique motorcycles and the workshop that goes with them. But they look awfull, unless you put a wood frame around and clad it. Which may be feasible. --- Hi As has been mentioned planning permission would more than likely be required, I'd be wary though, if you stride into the planning office asking for permission to build an office in the back garden then the answer will probably be no. A garden room, studio or the like would probably be better received. Try talking to a planning officer about their policy in this area in general without giving away any details. Also what is your location, rural or urban? With the planning issues in mind, lorry containers would probably require some window dressing to make then acceptable. The prefab timber buildings are pretty good these days as are the Border Oak http://www.borderoak.com/Garages.htm type timber framed buildings, I guess it's down to aesthetics and your budget at the end of the day. If you want some more info on highly insulated timber panel structures you could try contacting a guy called John Hayden, I worked with him a few years ago and he's branched out into constructing small garden rooms, he only works in the old Avon county area, so is probably not in your area. He might be able to offer some advice though. his mail is - haydengardenrooms - you know what goes here - btopenworld.com You could also try posting in alt.architecture but I warn you things can lean towards the insane in there at times :-) HTH Tim |
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On 28 Sep 2003 17:42:49 GMT, (Huge) wrote:
(Jim Ley) writes: On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 12:04:55 +0100, "Tim Ward" wrote: I'm trying to work out why someone should invent "UKP" in preference to using the ISO standard "GBP". Because the ISO are looking to charge for use of such codes, and it's not worth the risking the licensing costs? Yeah. Right. Buy better drugs. Erm, you have seen http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/...003JulSep/0213 etc. and the original announcements, the ISO are considering licence fees for ISO 4217. Jim. |
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"Mary Fisher" wrote in message t... If you don't have the time, try advertising for a pensioner to do it for you! You think pensioners have time to spare??????? You wait! Don't have to wait - I ama a pensioner. I have little spare time because I love to do projects for my nighbours - without fee of course! If I were to be paid I would probably ask for payment in UKP - not a standard I invented but one, which, in the days when I worked for a living (long before the days of ISO standards), was the standard used when communicating with the USA (who were more used to USD) I'm neither sad nor thick - I used to write programs in a range of crude and difficult languages like Fortran and Cobol in the days when computers had green screens.... |
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x2 bugger :-(
still you can laugh at my non spellchecked one now |
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