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I had a new boardwalk built so my wife can use it too (giraut.github.io)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/dull_mens_club@lemmy.world
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I had the boardwalk between the house and the summer cottage replaced, but with twist - literally: both ends of the boardwalk now gently rise up and meet the house's backdoor and the cottage's front porch level, so there are no steps anywhere. Also, it's wider than regular, commercial boardwalks. You could say it's a boardwalk with accessibility in mind.

My wife who has a disability can now easily go to the cottage and spend some time enjoying the lake and listening to music there without any help.

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[–] 42 points 4 months ago* (6 children)

I fear this "dull men's club" branding is going to do to the word "dull" something very similar to what the "liminal spaces" branding did to the word "liminal" or what meme communities did to the word "meme." Your boardwalk is awesome.

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  • [–] [S] 20 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Sorry... I figured a boardwalk wasn't exactly the most exciting thing in the world 🙂

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    • [–] 16 points 4 months ago (8 children)

    I’m jealous you have two houses and I have a jar of pickled eggs.

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  • [–] [S] 12 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    We only have one house 🙂 The second building is a summer cottage - with a sauna but no running water and no toilets, and it's not really livable in the winter. This is quite typical here in the north.

    What's more unusual is that it is rather large: that's because the family who owned this place before us first built the cottage to spend the summer holidays when they lived far away (so it has bedrooms and a living room to stay in it for a week or two), then they moved here and built the main house on the same plot of land.

    We got lucky, we got this place for very cheap.

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  • [–] 16 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Oh what you’re not going to congratulate me on my jar of pickled eggs?

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    • [–] 9 points 4 months ago

    I thought him and his wife lived in different houses.

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    [–] 8 points 4 months ago

    It might not be exciting to the public at large but it’s a fantastic idea. My wife has mobility issues so I approve!

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    [–] 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Broadwalk on the incline?

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    • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    Speechless, please accept my bow

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    [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Won't that get slippery as fuck in rain and snow?

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 4 months ago

    Not rain, no. The wood is new, it's treated and it's slightly corrugated. The old boardwalk's wood was smooth as a baby's bottom after 40 years outside, and slightly covered in moss that would turn slimy in the rain - which is half the reason I replaced it: it tried to kill me once too often 🙂

    As for snow, it's not slippery as long as it's dry. Once it's wet and melty, everything is slippery 🙂

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    [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    Looks fantastic. Beautiful dwellings and property as well. My best to the Misses. Thanks for the 360 photo too. I need to do that up on my hill. It really does deliver.

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