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I have no clue what it is. However, a bit of reverse logic might be of interest. If form follows function, then when presented with a form, we can draw some conclusions about possible function. Let us suppose that its intended use involves the whole of the blade being knocked into the ground...

Perhaps "indirect farming" means apple scrumping.

This may be of general interest: the other day an Italian chap told me what was going on in his home area in northern Italy. It appears that the cases occurring now are less serious than in the first days. This makes sense because if a virus is to be successful as a surviving organism, it is...

I think you could make it a legal requirement for candidates to list any previous political affiliations they may have had. If the rule was, say, that nobody who has been a member of a political party in the last 10 years may stand for election and a candidate declared that he/she had been e.g...

With ref. to the discussion on the quality of local councils: I've often wondered whether or not political parties should be banned from contesting council elections. I realise that this will find immediate disfavour with those who are keen on political ideologies but it seems to me that local...

Derek, was there a reason for not cutting a stopped mortice? That way the side blades would have simply slotted in and been supported. Andy.

I had indeed forgotten the great Monsieur B. Good job they only produced on of him. :D

Thanks for nailing it. As for "that French bloke": I've only ever heard of five Frenchmen (Napoleon, Voltaire, Descartes, Cantona and de Gaulle) and for some reason I have a sort of mental block on the names of Voltaire and Descartes. That said, if I were really pushed I might be able to come...

Ahhh … I see! (I imagine you can here the penny dropping even at this distance.) The implication is that with something that has dead straight grain, the cut can be done without too much worry but with something like that jarrah, it's a matter of pick your spot carefully.

What I think is an absolute revelation is that the join is invisible after cutting the draw front out on a table saw. I would have thought that the kerf would simply have been too wide and I would have assumed that the use of some fiendishly fine, probably Japanese, backsaw would have been...

Really? :shock: I have to write "that French bloke" because I can never remember his name. Who was it then? (I'm now guessing that it might have been some ancient Greek.)

With that you touch on one of the difficulties of how we deal with history. I think that one of the problems is that we tend to deal with it alsmost as a series of headlines. To do more than that requires either a professional or lay interest in the subject, direct experience of events of being...

With ref to Chris's FB quote above: on the one hand we need to learn from history but on the other people who have been through difficult times want their children and grandchildren to have easier lives. The problem seems to be that for many people enjoying easy lives (the vast majority) there...

It seems to me that two aspects of the NHS have to be considered quite separately. One is the actual medical treatment, which generally seems to be pretty good and can probably hold its head up amongst the medical services of all developed nations. The other is the...

I think that the modifications are all just right, especially the camber to the top and the shallower apron. The invisible draw really is tip top. I find it more impressive than your usual complex work! Did you do the camber with hand tools?

You might be mixing me up with the people you have been rowing with. I haven't got involved in those disputes and haven't actually got a strong view one way of the other of being in your company. FWIW I think that it is very hard to judge the "tone" in which things are said on the internet, so...

All true … but (and it is a huge "but"), I don't think that anyone can seriously doubt that the mil. med. services are infinitely better managed than NHS personnel and being military, flexibility and adaptability belong to their defining characteristics. I would also suggest that while they are...

On a more general note, I have to wonder about the brain dead nature of so many people. How on earth could folk not realise that there would be masses of people on popular beaches at the first opportunity? And having realised that, why on earth would anyone want to go and sit in such a vision of...

I suspect that none of us will have anything particularly controversial to say about this. I've certainly got no argument with any of that. I suggest that the psychology of it is interesting though. Traffic accident deaths are probably scene as a "legitimate" part of every day life as are deaths...

The reason I mentioned my Army experience was that I used to be involved in producing things like threat assessments. I agree with you that many people will follow the same or similar processes according to their own instincts and inclinations without putting a formal name on it. There are also...