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I fear that taking some sort of middle way is inevitable. If you could give an individual the scenario of the choice of an assured death for him/her and a prostrate economy, I suspect that many would go for the latter and few would be altruistic enough to opt for their own death and the greater...

It would depend on how it was handled. For instance, if it became known that one of the Downing St typists or a cleaning lady at the MOD had also been granted a dispensation - entirely possibly because difficult personal circumstances are encountered in all walks of life - and that there had...

If I were Boris, I would have dealt with this by saying something like, "He acted entirely sensibly and responsibly in making arrangements for the welfare of his child and at no point did he place anybody else in danger. However, he skated a bit close to the limits of the spirit of the rules...

XY, my first thought was to agree completely. Shiplapping must be a good technique but despite the evidence of it having been used successfully for centuries, I shy away from it due to the same concerns you have. T & G certainly lays those concerns to rest. However ... it occurs to me that the...

Unfortunately that's very typical of what passes for "debate" on the internet these days. Now while I wouldn't be surprised to get that sort of thing from a 19 y.o. sociology undergraduate, I've seen enough of your thoughts on here to know that you can do an awful lot better than that. I...

Fair enough but we all know that guidelines from big bureaucracies rarely manage to cover all eventualities. I personally couldn't imagine breaking any guidelines or laws for frivolous or purely selfish purposes. However, I certainly would (and have often enough in the past) when I with a 100%...

I've just been watching a chunk of his press conference. His justification is that both he and his wife were coming down with symptoms and his wife was not sure that she would be well enough to be able to look after the child. He was concerned that he might become seriously ill as well and on...

I agree with AJB Temple on this. It seems to me that it is a confected storm in a Westminster teacup. Meanwhile the rest of the country will see that Cummings was trying to make the best arrangements for the welfare of his child in the case of him and his wife falling ill. Much has been made of...

Both methods usually require a small gap so as to allow the wood to move. You can achieve this by placing a couple of slim coins between the pieces as you put them together. To avoid movement once in place I made sure that were cupping to occur, what would be the concave side was in contact...

This is my pencil sharpener: https://www.manufactum.de/anspitzer-mes ... gLHtvD_BwE At that price you can even afford to get a reserve in case it falls into the shavings bin!

Andy, on the subject of cost: Classic Hand Tools is doing one of the two Lie-Neilsen copies of the Stanley for GBP 195. The Veritas + conversion kit + a tongueing blade (it's delivered with a 1/4" grooving blade) comes out at nearer GBP 250 but thereafter it's flexibility is relatively cheap...

There's another factor which has not been mentioned and that's the cost of the various tools for T & G. If you're going to do lots of 3/4" wood then you'd probably only need one good second hand Stanley plane or pair of wooden planes (as per Andy T's link) and away you go. My 1/8" T & G was...

I made a bookcase and the back was 1/2" thick with 1/8" T & G. I prefer T & G to shiplap because it's hard to go wrong with a plane fitted with the relevant blades whereas with shiplap, I reckon it is probably easier to cut your rebates off square. Also planing T & G is just good fun or at...

Your "simple" view is IMO correct. Every measure is a temporary one until we get either an effective vaccine or treatment medicine. As for careers advice, I would offer the following: do about six years in the armed forces (ideally the Army or RM) and then make a decision for life. If he's good...

There's much talk at the moment about getting the lockdown in London lifted soon. On the face of it that seems quite reasonable as there are very few, if any, new cases. However, for the reasons you describe there I reckon that London is doomed to another outbreak come what may. In purely...

Another good UK woodworker on YouTube is Richard Maguire ("The English Woodworker) and Matt Eastlea has a few videos too.

If I may be permitted a relatively trivial observation to this very useful thread: I don’t know how anyone can get on with holdfasts projecting away from the front of the bench as in the first pic. I lasted about a week with that but deadlegged my thigh so often that I now keep the holdfasts in...

I'm virtue signalling? It would appear that you have latched on to this modern term and not quite understood it. You will be defeated in any attempt to find me claiming any sort of virtues for myself for the simple reason that I haven't. As I've already pointed out, luxury is a relative...

I'd like to see some sort of justification for describing what I posted as "tosh". To complain about the luxurious form of self-indulgence* known as foreign holidays is strictly a first world problem and, as you can imagine or maybe you can't, such complaints are likely to attract very little...

To feel hard done by in terms of not taking a European holiday is the kind of moaning that only those who enjoy a luxurious lifestyle can complain about. And yes, I do mean luxurious: consider the conditions in which most of the world lives. There are loads of people who would kill to have...