25 November 2024
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Last week, I reached up to adjust the driver’s side sun visor in our car and it came off in my hands. I’d probably been a bit careless but I was trying to quickly block the sun streaming in through … Continue reading
4 September 2024
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One of the things I did today was to repair the roof on another log store. A combination of damp and too much weight on top had left one of them sagging so, while the top shelf was clear of … Continue reading
8 June 2022
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Just over a week ago I went to open the boot of the car and it didn’t respond. No sound of the catch being released and no way to open it. The timing wasn’t great, not only because of the … Continue reading
21 March 2022
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Over time, the control knobs on musical equipment (potentiometers or ‘pots’) can start to crackle as you turn them. I’ve got a Markbass Nano Mark 300 head, which is mainly getting used at church at the moment and that had … Continue reading
14 May 2020
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We’re surrounded by dogs. That is to say, the neighbours on either side both have dogs. On one side is Monty, who sometimes barks a bit but soon settles down. Although a fence panel came down a couple of months … Continue reading
19 November 2019
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Last month, I mentioned how I had cracked the handle of my sledgehammer by over-reaching with a heavy blow. I finally got round to repairing it this week. Yesterday, I used a brush to wet the inside of the crack … Continue reading
4 September 2019
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While partway home yesterday, my bike started to act – and sound – very odd. Initially, I wondered if something had gone wrong with the gears but, finding a safe point to spot, I realised that the issue was the … Continue reading
27 November 2018
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I don’t know what happened to my bike yesterday but, when I unlocked it in the evening, I found the chain had somehow jumped out of the derailleur cage. My guess is that it got tangled with another bike and … Continue reading
25 February 2018
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I think I must have stretched too far while wearing my headphones and stretched the mini jack connector; sound has started to work intermittently which isn’t great while trying to work on my RPM project. This afternoon I broke out … Continue reading
15 October 2016
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Once upon a time, choosing an earring was an important part of my sartorial routines. For many years now, I have been content to mainly stick with a single earring that gets changed very infrequently. I have lost track of … Continue reading