It's an expensive way to repair the gable but with the family expanding the way it has it needed doing. I'm tempted to keep the big living room for myself though with a fish tank and a no girls allowed policy.
I made one with a section of plastic barrel the type keepers use for feeders and cut a wooden disc to fit in each side and then made a frame to hold it. Some use it and others don't. The little hobs I used to have run miles in it like hamsters.
Always said that manners cost nothing, me and my mates were all little shits as kids but we all held doors open for old dears and moved if they needed a seat etc but the spoilt little b*****ds around nowadays wouldn't bother.
Tell me what you want in autumn mate and if I can't acquire it I'll get it cheap. Walnut don't do well up here though apparently thats why we don't have them. Juglans regia is the Latin name I think.