Why I’m missing the @the_rhs Chelsea Flower Show no.3
We could make it ourselves. Five words uttered by a Yorkshireman. Those of you that know (& you know who you are), will know what that means. Five little words resulting in conservatively well over 300 hours of work, fingerprints ruined, cuticles ripped, fingers bleeding and that was well before the start on site.
Let’s backtrack almost a year. ‘I’ve had an idea’, I said. When I say things like ‘I’ve had an idea’ it usually means I’ve drawn it up, created a 3D model and pretty much worked out what to do and how. I say I’m methodical, others say I’m a control freak. This was no exception. My only issue here was convincing the brilliant bunch of can-do people I work with that they wanted to do this as much as I did. ‘No’ said Keith, the aforesaid Yorkshireman. He then followed it up a few days later with ‘well, it is possible, but absolutely not in the timeframe given’. Three days after that and there were fairly solid murmurings of ‘I’ve been thinking about how we could make this work’ and that was that. City Living was born. Little did we know then that @the_wandering__blonde would lose the use of her phone thumbprint access, @mrbenjaminmurray would coordinate his socks with a lamp, @knchappers would be a convert to CT1, I’d be making home made play doh and we’d all be engaged in a cottage industry (with the help of friends, friends of friends and neighbours) cutting 3.5 miles of fibre optic cable into 75mm lengths (for those of you that like a fun fact, that’s give or take 75,000 individual pieces) some of which still turn up occasionally from under the rug in the office, which were then stabbed into polystyrene in metal trays. .
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