Eighties Coming Back
Estonia 2003
- sung by "Ruffus", music: Vaiko Eplik, lyrics: Vaiko Eplik
Thought you had it coming
Now you really, really just don't know
It seems you make a deal far too big outta this
You thought that you'd done it
Yeah, you thought that you had heard it all
But the state of things is putting you down now just because
You know they say it's just the eighties coming back
Can you feel it?
It's the eighties coming back
Yeah, I know it's just the eighties coming
Eighties coming, eighties coming
Eighties coming back
You said "Let's do it"
"Let's take it out and dance all night"
But those deep synthesizer sounds freak you out
Now you wake up in the middle of the night
In terror and all you do is cry
Cold sweat, a cup of tea, nothing seems to help you through the night
My god!
Now it feels just like the eighties coming back
Can you feel it?
It's the eighties coming
Yeah, I know it's just the eighties coming
Eighties coming, eighties coming
Eighties coming back
Yeah, you thought you had it coming
But now it looks like you didn't know this
But everybody's wearing their hair the way you did 15 years ago
And it makes you wanna cry
Oh it feels just like the eighties coming back
Can you feel it?
It's the eighties coming
Yeah, I know it's just the eighties coming
Eighties coming, eighties coming
Eighties coming back
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 25 May 2003 18:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
Haha ultimate thread mutation = gier -> oor calum -> house extensions!
Er ahem, jill's stepmum died and left us some money, so we decided to build this extension. Our house is a 2-bedroom end terrace, and the bathroom is a single-storey lean-to. Ever since we moved in, we thought about adding an extra room above this, and when we had adam, it was hard for jill to do any work (she is an artist, & needs space to work - i have my music stuff in thee attic, which is unsuitable for artwork) so anyway, we had this money, and we though abt moving elsewhere in our village, b/c having the builders in is obviously a hassle, and very messy, plus perhaps we could move somewhere w/a garden as well, but house prices are rising really quickly, so we couldn't afford it. When jill got the money through, it was a no-brainer really. Three things to be aware of:
1/ it will cost a *lot* more than you expect.
2/ the builder might claim that he will leave no mess. he is lying.
3/ despite this it us well worth it
our extension work consisted ov underpinning the lean-to (it had no foundation) removing the original roof, stripping out everything, building the thing itself (breezeblock inner wall, stone outer wall - our house is stone, and obv it had to match) building the roof and then making the new room inside. We also had them re-roof one side of our main roof. It took abt 10 weeks, and cost 17k uk pounds. Without inheritance money we could NEVER have afforded it!
The mess was INCREDIBLE, i mean plaster dust and shit got EVERYWHERE, plus the house is over 100 yrs old, so there was all this long-accumulated horrible black grime, a little of which went a LONG way. At one point we just gave up cleaning up after them, b/c the net day, it would look like you hadn't bothered. Really, I can't exaggerate the sheer messiness of the process. Everything you own will get covered in muck, unless you actually move it eslewhere. The best bit, though, was when I got home after work one evening, and they'd reached the point where they'd built the new roof, and removed the old ceiling, so I got in, stepped into the hall, and it's like:
me: blimey, it's a bit cold in here!
jill: look up.
So I look up, and there's this HUGE space above my head, like a hollowed-out 2-storey buiding, with the roof beams visible at the top. I went into the bathroom, which is on the ground floor, next to the front door, and i saw the walls, with no ceiling, and the outside wall of the house, that we'd got used to seeing, now inside. It was really disorienting, but in a good & fascinating way.
Having the builders in the house is intrusive, undoubtedly. Very much so, and b/c of this, your impressions of what kind of people they are are very important. You, and/or yr S.O. will have to semi-live w/these people for as long as the process takes. You like a lie in on certain days of the week? Be sure that on that day, a chippy and a couple of roofers WILL turn up for work early. You like walking round the house nekkid or partially clad? Not for the next couple of months you won't! And so it goes on. I dunno if yr part of m/f or m/m relationship, but if m/f, the way in ehich they relate to you vs yr s.o. can be kind of entertaining, once you get used to it. With jill, they were INCREDIBLY shy & self-effacing! Like:
jill: would you like some tea?
builders: (staring at boots) barely audible mutter in affirrmative
still, it is intrusive, and you will get irritated, certainly.
It has been worth it for us, the builders did a really excellent job, and our new room looks not like an add-on, but like an original part of the house. It's really great haveing an extra room, if yer cramped. The minute we stood in our new room, after they'd finished, we knew that even tho' it had cost us loads, it was well worth it.
ABSOLUTELY CRUCIAL is to a/get quotes from many, many builders. It isn't just about the quote, it's about sizing up the builders themselves (do not be suprised when some of them can't be bothered to actually give you a quote) and most of all b/seek out as many people as you possibly can who have had building work done. Who is good, who bad etc. ours had a really good rep, and tho he wasn't the cheapest, he did such a good job that we're really glad we went w/him.
Ask me whatever you want j d, and i'll try my best to answer it.
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Sunday, 25 May 2003 20:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
four years pass...
eight years pass...