![]() ![]() ![]() "It's my inheritance." I opened up the box. I think I was probably playing up the cloak-and-dagger stuff too much, but it was quite mysterious, after all. It was fairly unimpressive, about one inch by four and an inch deep, made of plain dark wood with a few obscure markings carved into it. "This." I interrupted, holding up the box. Then what makes you think." she started, obviously somewhat bewildered. ![]() "Oh, there was a body, I'm just not sure it was him." I realised I was probably giving her images of mutilated corpses or worse, but I was genuinely nervous about what I was about to show her. "I mean, how can they diagnose a heart attack with no body?" "I presume we're not talking adolescent denial here," she asked, with a raised eyebrow. "That's because I'm not convinced he's actually dead." I took a deep breath and took the plunge. What happened? He wasn't all that old, was he? I thought he was off on one of his expeditions just a few months ago." "My grandfather died." I stated matter-of-factly. "Anything of interest to report while I was away?" she asked. I might have to give the old spring break tradition a miss next year and just hang out with you." There's only so many snowy mountain peaks you can gaze at in wonder in a lifetime. She shrugged, "You know, same-old, same-old. "Hey, Jon-boy! How's it going? Good break?" When she finally reached me, she leapt up onto the wall with somewhat more ease than I'd managed earlier. There are some friendships you just don't want to complicate. I'd always thought she was cute, but we'd never been more than friends. The overall effect, I thought, was pretty cute. Her short red hair was in its normal unruly state and she displayed her quirky grin as she spotted me slouched on the wall. She was wearing her usual get-up of scruffy old slacks and her favourite worn old green jumper. In fact, I'd been waiting to talk to her for over a week, but she always spent spring break with her parents in their caravan in the mountains and we had no classes together this year, so this was the first chance we'd had to get together for a while.įinally, I spotted her strolling towards me across the yard. I was waiting for Karyn, my best friend of longer than I'd care to mention. Plus it was a good school everyone was pretty honest in general and we'd only had a very few incidents if theft in all the time I'd been there. It was irrational anxiety and I knew it: the lockers were all well-protected with combination locks, and it was vastly unlikely that anyone would ever keep anything in there which was particularly valuable. That turned out to be an even worse plan - I was on the edge of my seat throughout every lesson, worrying that someone would break into my locker and take the box. I hadn't dared carry the box around with me all day in case I misplaced it or someone thought they might borrow it, and that meant leaving it in my locker. It was the first day of school after spring break and had been one of the most stressful I'd ever endured. Site operatives must be made aware of the need to support and protect all cast stone units in their temporary state to negate the risk of any load being implied upon them whilst construction is taking place for example window heads.Ĭonsideration must be given to the creation of suitable movement control joints for cast stone.I sat on the wall after class, nervously fingering the box and swinging my legs. Wind loading on large window features, sections of stonework, supporting lintels and fixings to cast stone units should also be considered early in the design process.ĭue care and attention should also be given to the differential shrinkage and expansion rates between clay and cast stone units when employed in combination. The structural stability of all units in their finished state should be approved by the structural engineer carrying out the overall design for the project. All cast stone units are manufactured to BS EN 771-5 (units with all dimensions 650mm or less and not containing reinforcement or fixings).Īll units are decorative and are not designed to be load bearing. ![]()
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