{"id":32,"date":"2005-04-26T00:44:49","date_gmt":"2005-04-25T16:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kellerberrin.com\/?p=32"},"modified":"2005-04-26T00:51:54","modified_gmt":"2005-04-25T16:51:54","slug":"applying-linseed-oil-to-the-cross-at-the-prev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kellerberrin.com\/?p=32","title":{"rendered":"applying linseed oil to the cross at the prev"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the pointless tasks I have been trying to get around to for a few weeks is oiling the cross on top of the Prev. What follows is an explanation and illustration. Apologies to those of you with dial up access, as there are a bunch of photos to follow&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe 10 Step Explanation:<br \/>\n1. &#8220;The Prev&#8221; is a building.<br \/>\n2. Historically, it was used as a place to send asthma sufferers to stop em getting worse. Preventorium, some sort of twist on sanitorium, I reckon.<br \/>\n3. Now, it&#8217;s owned by Pauline and James, who run it as a kind of bed n breakfast.<br \/>\n4. While Roger was in town, he was helping out by painting the prev in a nice cream colour, tart it up a bit for the visitors.<br \/>\n5. <a href=\"http:\/\/kellerberrin.com\/?p=28\">One day<\/a>, Pauline came in search of Roger, who was skiving off, hanging out with me out the back of the gallery. She wanted him to come and help choose colours. I went up with them to the Prev, where we decided to tone down the apricot colour they had gone for already. So we all trooped off to the hardware and got the nice man to mix up a custom colour.<br \/>\n6. Back at the Prev, the colour choice was approved. I asked about the cross, which is raw wood with peeling paint. What colour were they going to paint that? James was up on the roof with a piece of wire, securing the ricketty thing in place. Roger was all for pulling it down. He refused to paint the damn thing. This caused some tension as James was rather attached to it.<br \/>\n7. I suggested that we varnish the cross, as is. That way, its historical importance would be preserved (thus satisfying James) and we wouldn&#8217;t be restoring it entirely (thus satisfying Roger).<br \/>\n8. Thus it fell upon me to varnish the cross atop the Prev.<br \/>\n9. When I went to the hardware store to get varnish, the nice man suggested that since the cross was sitting in the sun all day, varnish might crack and discolour. Better that I choose linseed oil.<br \/>\n10. Today Chris and I put on the first coat of oil.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos5.flickr.com\/10863133_d4d4c275ae_o.jpg\" alt=\"the prev cross\" \/><br \/>\nTis the cross atop the prev&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos3.flickr.com\/10863160_e979501061_o.jpg\" alt=\"climbing up to the roof\" \/><br \/>\nClimbing up to do the deed&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos5.flickr.com\/10863195_a2f47b4b86_o.jpg\" alt=\"Chris and Lucas up on the roof\" \/><br \/>\nChris and Lucas up on the roof&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos3.flickr.com\/10863182_c7c77fa37c_o.jpg\" alt=\"applying the linseed oil\" \/><br \/>\nThe first brushstrokes caress the cross&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos8.flickr.com\/10863164_91355534de_o.jpg\" alt=\"the wood soaks up the oil\" \/><br \/>\nThe dry wood drinks in that rich oil&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos3.flickr.com\/10863151_e33e5f8c39_o.jpg\" alt=\"and now the front\" \/><br \/>\n&#8230;and now for the front&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos8.flickr.com\/10863166_6b28f40736_o.jpg\" alt=\"slapping on the oil\" \/><br \/>\nLucas oils up the front&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos5.flickr.com\/10863143_d3d8727e48_o.jpg\" alt=\"chris oils it\" \/><br \/>\nChris puts some finishing touches to the oily crucifix&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos5.flickr.com\/10863126_84b30df3db_o.jpg\" alt=\"job done\" \/><br \/>\nJob done!<\/p>\n<p>Note that no significant difference has been made to the cross (compare with first photo) &#8211; it is slightly darker, and the paint flakes are intact. A significant contribution has been made to the nation&#8217;s heritage!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the pointless tasks I have been trying to get around to for a few weeks is oiling the cross on top of the Prev. What follows is an explanation and illustration. Apologies to those of you with dial up access, as there are a bunch of photos to follow&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kellerberrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kellerberrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kellerberrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kellerberrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kellerberrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kellerberrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kellerberrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kellerberrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kellerberrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}