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It's a real shame about length being the enemy - since for me the "logical" place to plug in a lawnmower is in the garage, not the house - despite the house being closer to the lawn - because you wouldn't normally expect to have to run an extension through an open window when you want the door...

Amazing - thank you Jacob. Do you think 6mm is "wide enough" for hand cut dovetails to look good and for a decent/sufficient glue-up area for mitred edges (support wedges notwithstanding)?

Regarding this "dung show of a budget", Tony, my chap, - can I ask how you have been, or might be, personally affected by the budget?

Put simply - the timescale for the withdrawal that was agreed by Trump was fundamentally unachievable.

The reason I ask about board thickness for small box projects is to ensure I concentrate on building the hand skills to split boards with a hand saw and hand plane them down to required thickness. Thickness info would really help me buying the right kind of stock in the first place. My...

One more question, if I may? Can I even plan to run my hobbyist electricals off my house mains, with a decent extension, if this is such a safety issue?

Thank you very much Phil - will watch that one later today. (y) I've watched a couple of hand plane videos already - mainly focused on sharpening and setup, though - and I have done a bit of sharpening on one already and a bit of set-up fettling to decent effect. One thing that I have already...

Thanks mate, appreciate the efforts

Having recently built/organised myself a small area to start making "small stuff" (Current Shed Project thread), I am on the cusp of starting to learn hand skills and to try to make some "small stuff". I'm aiming to make a few little projects - but have no fixed plan on exactly where the...

Wow - thank you - and just goes to show that "normal people" don't give this kind of nuance with electrics any consideration or second thought. I'm gonna have to retire that extension for anything other than light loads and buy a new cable... (thinking about what might be "safe") ... ...

I salute you for offering these up to anyone interested. If nobody shows any interest here or in any other social forum that you might be a member of, I'd be inclined to offer of ebay or Facebook Marketplace for a very small fee and see if there are any takers there... Actually, if you don't...

When is a choice not a choice? Often there is no choice, so I absolutely don't agree that there was much of a choice in some of the budget. Some of it comes down to necessity, and that means no choice was possible, or even desirable (eg. Blood Scandal)

Wonderful. Pleasure to see the skill this must have taken to create.

Yep - I kinda get where you're coming from and don't disagree with much. A fair amount of "inefficiency" is built in by design - but only when if you deliberately disregard that the Public Sector have certain obligations to the public. For instance, as Armed Forces, when we are sent away on...

Change the Goalposts fallacy. I asked specifically about the Contaminated Blood Scandal, for one (and also Post Office by extension) - these were not realistically within the realms of "choice" and were explicitly not budgeted for by Tory when the commitment was made. Amongst the other...

Did I. All I did was report it, not explicitly complain about it. <shrug> I don't like it, that's true, but I cannot see a realistic mechanism to curtail that, other than not buy the equipment in the first place, and create the knock-on effects of negatively affecting health outcomes...

I'll do this one... Realistically, they did well to prioritise that information in the face of the known unfunded spending promises - giving those affected a reasonable time to make adjustments instead of springing it on people in Nov with no time to adjust. Not really: some people are just...

Disingenuous. Do you really think that reneging or withdrawing from a promise to pay compensation for the contaminated blood scandal was a viable option? Most of the other unfunded spending promises were of similar ilk.

I think that's an over-simplification and doesn't really bear up to scrutiny - particularly when we know that many new treatments are not available on the NHS because they are "too expensive" and that the NHS does often wait until drug patents expire and they become "generic drugs" before the...

Good to hear that you're on the better road and hoping to read more of your contributions in future - helping to keep you on that better road