Though when that’s going to be is uncertain.
I’m moving house. Or at least, I will be when I can find a house to buy. House-hunting in London? Not as much fun as you’d think, for values of fun that exceed ‘any fun at all’.
Until then, the project is back on hold. Everything that can feasibly move with me will move with me, everything else will be junked. My plan is still to build Ron Rollo’s LearJet shell, but not until I have a place to build it in where I won’t have to un-build it any time soon.
When I return to the project, it will most likely be on a new blog under a different name. I’ll keep this one up for the archives and for posterity’s sake, but as of now, there will be no new posts here. Unless I change my mind. I’m so changeable. It’s my weakness. But then it is my only weakness. Other than quoting BBC programmes in my blogs.
Night, all, and mind how you go.
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Nealy 5 years to get this far. Fingers crossed progress is faster in the new house! Arrange bimonthly weekend build days (build-a-thons) where you get some mates (I’ll help!) in to blitz through it.
Look forward to catching up about the property hunt.
Good luck Neil! Next time build it with Ikea tools and it’ll come apart just fine. Don’t kill the blog though, that seems overkill.
And… where are you going? Not to Timbuktu?
I’m not so much killing the blog as renewing it. We’ll see when the time comes.
Desperately Seeking Susan one might say.
Any early thoughts on which area ?
Anywhere I can afford to buy a house rather than a flat. Which, these days, is precious few areas. Right now I’m looking at parts of Croydon / South Norwood, Mottingham / Eltham / New Eltham, and Bromley – though just in the time I’ve been looking prices have gone up and are edging Bromley out of the equation. I gave up looking north of the river a while back.
What really kills you, though, is the crazy number of buyers to properties. Every offer I’ve made, I’ve been outbid. Everywhere is going for over the asking price, sometimes up to 20% over the asking price. It’s genuinely insane.
Look forward to seeing your build. I am starting the adventure of building a 45 as well. How much did Ron’s plans set you back?
Hi Steve. You may have to be patient for a while 🙂 I’ll get there, though.
I don’t really want to disclose the cost of the plans here in public, as it’s POA from Ron directly, but they were certainly very reasonable given the work that’s gone into them. Email me at neil dot hewitt at gmail dot com(email obfuscated to avoid harvesting) and I can tell you more.
I’ve had them scanned, and an attempt was made to vectorise them, but that will require a lot of cleaning up to be of use. Something for me to do while I’m waiting to buy a house…