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A friend pointed out that the best EV would be a converted 2CV. Why, for short runs, we have to be more comfortable and have more tech than in lots of homes beats me.

Adam, your posts remind me of the days I was head of D&T in Tulse Hill School (sadly, now a housing estate), which had been the junior department of the Brixton school of building. We still had all the trade workshops but the curriculum of the day decided that trades and skills were not...

The obvious source of energy is available and drives the planet's climate, ocean currents and on a nice day like today keeps us comfortable, the Sun. It is just a question of efficient conversion into a form of energy we can distribute and exploit. I am convinced that the rich boys, who own the...

Perhaps the regimes they live under do not call themselves capitalist but I suspect that a significant number live under the rule of Kleptocrat dictators who sell the resources into our economies and stash their cash in our banks. I think that the whole of the world's economy, including China is...

I think that another set of pictures, which show how you go about turning the cubes are in order. I'm most impressed by your square rim with the droop. If I tried that I'm sure a snag would chip the corners.

I've turned London Plane, green from a log, I found it very similar to Sycamore. I'd do it again if I had the chance.

The egg cups are oak and the eggs Ash and Plane tree all rescued from tree surgeons . If the hollowing is your problem, I find making a start by boring the middle out with a forstner bit makes it less stressful. Martin

I'm no expert, more a botcher than a bodger but I suspect if your tools are as sharp as you say its how you are presenting the tool to the work, that is probably as much to do with confidence if you are anything like me. One snag and I'm full of doubt about what I'm doing. As they say above...

I know its not woodwork or EV cars but thanks for this reference I've just looked him up. I always thought the Stanley Holloway wrote his own stuff. It proves you don't have to be young not to know stuff!!

Sadly, much faster than you think. Over 40 years ago I was taken on a tour of the Woolwich barrier just before it officially opened, by one of the engieers in charge. He explained "London was sinking and surge sea levels rising but the barrier and flood protection walls along the banks of the...

I managed to get a reasonable pair at last, they are made from a bit of the Bay log in the picture. Thanks for the advice and encouragement. Martin

Left and right double barley twist candle sticks, at last I've managed to get a pair reasonably similar!! Photographed in the garden as its such a nice day!! Made from rescued Bay log from a tree surgeon working in a nearby street. I left the log and it developed a handy radial split, which...

I bet people said that about pylons and I still do when I drive up the M2. If you go to Holland along certain roads you still can see rows of old wooden windmills, which most think are attractive but really they are just a load of old sheds with blooming big trellises swinging about. Beauty is...

If that's so what's all the fuss about Red, Orange and Green countries about then? If you aren't careful this thread will end up in the contentious zone!!

This is a fascinating thread with a range of positive and negative attitudes to EV and sustainability. It has struck me that a lot of the worry from some is the questions of range and cost, that is to some extent true for me. It is really a problem of town vs country. If you live in a town the...

This is a very interesting point. I suspect it is also to do with rebuilding after the devastation of the war. Here traditional buildings that were damaged in the blitz were largely swept aside and replaced by modern structures. From what I have seen much of the reconstruction in the east was...

I'm afraid that I can't believe that faced with all the evidence that there is an acute emergency, even people who claim there is no climate emergency actually believe what they say. I'm sure they are just being provocative, to wind up those of us they describe as Woke. (Odd word, passed tense...

I'm no chemist but a friend, who worked for ESSO told me, when I raised a similar point, that the crude oil could be "cracked" to produce almost whatever was wanted to match demand. The graphic says how crude is used currently.

No it isn't, it's all of us who have the vote. I wonder with all the negative comments about EV here, what those who make the comments have as an alternative solution, to the action needed to avert the climate emergency? I suspect that it is to look to the people "who make the rules we live by"...

You obviously didn't live in London and go to school in the 50s. We used to put a scarf over our nose and mouth (which were covered in muck where we breathed through) and truly there were smogs where you couldn't see 4 meters in front of you on the way to school (though we talked in yards, in...