My partial return

[Dan]

Yes as seen i am still alive and kicking, first off apologies to any pm's that havent been replied to, i have been offline for a few months now due to work loads and random goings on at work.

Its not over by a long shot but i am still in the background when i can be to keep an eye on you lot lol lol

So what have i been up to. Well the eco home project is slowly gathering pace and we are getting ready to start the final working drawings which will start a whole load of paperwork before we get to break the ground.

In amongst this i have built another landrover, this time for a local charity. It involved finding a 110 county (from kent) and bringing it back to base then the usual full strip and rebuild with some added touches of my own. The base vehicle was a white county on an F plate, by christmas it was ripe for some paint ...........

http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff163/Dan_R_album/work/IMG00114-20100117-1510.jpg

http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff163/Dan_R_album/work/IMG00116-20100121-1543.jpg

Then I added the colour (normal Footdown themed colour same as my car and service landy) and started adding panels back on

http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff163/Dan_R_album/work/IMG00128-20100130-1705.jpg

After that is was just simply designing the charity theme and some chequer plate detailing and add a nice new roofrack

http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff163/Dan_R_album/work/IMG00004-20100310-0857.jpg

That alone was abit of a mission tbh with all the nasties found along the way, then the boss man was still chattering about an 18ft racing boat he had, cue another new learning curve. I get given a post code for a nice seaside village in cornwall and trundle down for a day and pick the damn thing up.

Before work commenced the old plastic walled mock booth i had got ripped out, spent abit of money on some plasterboard and celotex to make a nice warm proper booth and added loads of bright white paint.

With this done we got the boat settled in its new home and got told it needed stripping completely and after i had the repairs done it was to have a nice new coat of paint lol (this theme is slowly getting tired lol lol ), heres a pic of just after we started removing some of the screwed on bits

http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff163/Dan_R_album/work/IMG00148-20100216-0847.jpg

That is currently sat upsidedown now with the lead keel removed and fully sanded down inside and out ready for some prep and the first few coats of stuff to be added. once that is started i have to trundle to cornwall again to get the masts :roll: whilst juggling architects and suppliers for the eco home and keeping the 2 lads i have employed busy lol lol lol

Not a bad variation for a construction project manager with no real paint/bodywork skills as such and no clue at all about boats, God i cant wait until the home kicks off and i can 'relax' back into my normal groove PMSL

[Stuart]

gay

[Dan]

maybe but you still love me :p

[Ernie]

sailor boy lol
Welcome back mate

[craig green]

I wondered where you & your fat Nova were these days Dan.

[Spudly]

Good evening bud, youve been a proper busy boy havent you, even found time to go and throw a bit of paint at the loonaque too:thumb:

[Stuart]

just need to do a plane now

[NovaLad]

http://ak.imgfarm.com/images/fwp/myfuncards/Everyday/lg/WelcomeBackPooch.jpg

[Dan]

The bit i missed out was................ with the 'slower' work rate i thought i had better do something to combat nature, so started going to a local gym place thingy mid november, i thought i would get in there and loose abit of weight.

FAIL lol lol lol

After a few weeks of learning the kit in there (no free weights but plenty of machines) i decided to do more of the cardio work and mess with the weights less, turns out because they are just gay machines i max most of them anyway now with 3 reps of 12, cardio wise things are massively improved but I bulked up to 16st (but no real fat gain?) lol lol lol

Luckily i have changed my plan abit more and have actually started to drop a small bit of weight finally (even less weights blah blah blah)

[Stuart]

fatty :p

[Dan]

lol :p Luckily not, but lets put it this way, theres no way i can wear the yellow png t shirt i have lol lol

[John]

Dan who?

lol
liking the landy!

Iirc you're running a marathon?

[NovaLad]

Don't bother watching your weight at gym i've gone up just under 1 stone since november from killing the gym out.
It's just the usual muscle weighing more than fat.

[Dan]

John it soon became apparent that even though i'm not fat as such, i'm still not built for running that long a distance, thats for skinny whippets that havent smoked for 20 years lol

[Ernie]

leave me out of it cheeky lol

[burgo]

Oh HAI noobie :) get yourself 15 non spam posts and then get some pics of your moobs up, gigiddy.

[Lynsey]

I wondered where you'd gone :p It looks like you've been having fun :thumb:

16 stone eh? Not bad going Mr :) More Dan to love. You MUST wear that tshirt, I'm sure you can squeeze into it ;)

[Jack]

Weights won't lose you weight (arf), I was hovering about 15st when I was doing weights at the gym. Cancer is great for losing weight though, I'm around 13.8 at the mo lol

I keep meaning to give you a call about borrowing your skills for a brief lick of paint on a pair of doors and front wings for the nova :)

[dj_wudgey]

good work mate even though i loathe defenders! They are the most awful things ive driven!