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Nice work!! Welcome to the forum.

Check your local Ikea and DIY stores for free/cheap materials. My local Ikea regularly has sheet material from units which is always useful. I normally just use CLS and chipboard for working tables.

It's a functional planter. I would just make it with treated wood and not bother with a liner. I use treated sarking for stuff like this. Get it really dry, sand the surface, then paint with outdoor paint. When you water the planters, it always overflows. They get 'grubby' very quickly.

Have you tried heating the hose and recovering it's shape? The original aqua vac came with a hose which wasn't really flexible. Might keep you going until you can get a proper replacement

Take 7 1/2 minutes and watch David Attenborough's COP26 presentation. He talks about these fluctuations, then how the earth experienced a period of stability allowing humans to develop.

I don't think there will be anything significant from COP26. There are some great ideas, such as 'One Sun, One World & One Grid', but that's long term.

This is interesting: Just a development unit just now. The only problem is they had to limit the size of the fuel tank to stop it floating away.

I would put a pedal powered generator in every seat!!!

What a fantastic machine. Well done for rescuing it. It's the same pic as on Lathes and co website, so I guess you have already spoken to them. Will be interesting to see your restoration.

I just came across this post and your excellent write up on files. Very interesting. I've been using files for years and found your write up really interesting. "Everything you've ever wanted to know about files, but afraid to ask" I put it all into a 42 page PDF. A small book!! Is it OK to post...

Today's virtual bargain!! Been looking for some Lego on Gumtree for my grandson when he visits. We already have a small box of it. Have you seen the price of used Lego??? It's often sold by the Kg. We thought there should be more in the house from when our kids were young so today I had a look...

Agreed, fit both and make sure the place is secure per insurance requirements. I would also have lighting all round the workshop dusk to dawn also high power floodlights with PIR.

Just as others have said +1 for many more double sockets and then some extra. It is so easy to put them in at this stage. Can you get sockets to the middle of the area, possibly from the ceiling. Also use several of the LED light panels that people have talked about. Lots of diffuse light to...

I suppose annual holiday flights and cruise are the worst. That's what I worked for for 40+ years and I will continue to do it. It is necessary for my wellbeing and if I was home I probably would produce more CO2 by having the heating on ;) Most of the other things I do are necessary for...

Yes, but the figures are all related to the global population. Not just the U.S. or first world. If you earn £70k in the U.K., or $100K post tax in the U.S. you are in the richest 1% of the global population and by 2030 the top 1% will account for 16% of emissions. I find the figures hard to...

You don't have to earn a huge amount to be in that 1%. According to this site How rich am I , if your post tax income is 70k, and only 2 in the house, you hit the 1%. Not sure if it's accurate? 1% of worlds population is about 79 million. According to the article you quoted each 'rich' person...

I think so. and there is a profound truth in what you say I think I will do things as long as it doesn't cost me too much money or alter my lifestyle too much and I have a fairly simple lifestyle. I just don't believe in some of the bad science of high tech solutions, that are around just now...

gravity is just an illusion!! it's curved spacetime

We are doing small things such as eating less red meat, but that's for health reasons as well, we have a small petrol car and a bigger one for the trailer, but don't drive all that much, but that's because we don't work any more. We only really heat two rooms in the house. We would still fly...