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I use a thickish home made soap finish for most of my projects now (unless there is a specific request for something different). It's easy to make, easy to apply, doesn't need any special PPE and I can hand the project over quickly. It's not a hard finish (it's soap, after all), but it's easy...

Rummikib was very useful in getting my kids to count well (in two languages), and you could distract them with the occasional math question when they were winning :)

This may not appeal to everyone's humour, and may well get moderated off sooner rather than later,but.... Do you think this dog's name is Douglas???

My therapist told me that I would feel better if I finished some of the things that I started. Half a bottle of whiskey, a third of a chocolate cake and the remains of a crate of beer later and, you know what, he is right :)

Terrific wine? Or wine we should be terrified of?????

A name, or a prediction of your future state???

I have done something similar with just a good router, good selection of bits, guide bushes and a straight edge. Lot dustier than a saw though, and will take longer. Depends really on how quickly you need it. If you are able to buy 8 × 4 boards, then so much the better. For a built in like this...

Plus one for the spokeshave here. Sharp, set at a slight angle, precision comes from the marking around the side of the workpiece and the patience of the woodworker.

I have a space about the same size. I have made full height bookshelves, double bed frame, large storage benches. So it can be done. But this was mostly hand tool work. That gives me more space to work. The trick is coming up with ways to work around some of the limitations.

I have found that old multitool blades can be used for this.

I made a pair of dividers at a 1 : 1.6 ratio. I like to think it helps a little, but it only really gets used when I am making things on the fly, not when I am designing something.

I have a 131 that I bought when I started working in touring theater. Still have all the original bits. I did buy a hex adapter, but rarely use it. Occasionally take it with me to work to show the young engineers what cordless drivers looked like before the internet :)

Speaking as a Li Ion battery engineer for a popular power tools company I can only say the following. A Li Ion battery will catch fire if it gets too hot and goes in to 'thermal runaway'. It is this that causes the pack to burn through each cell. The first cell to burn heats the next couple...

oldhandtools.co.uk sometimes have these, but you have to be quick.

Continuous re-runs and repeats maybe? Or would that never happen these days? :) Put the brakes on, back to track one of the playlist :) That could play havoc if the satnav was integral, you'd never get where you wanted to go, you would keep going back to the beginning :) And, if it was an...

I also spent my formative woodworking years building scenery. Flats held at the corners with wriggle pins (corrugated nails), covered with hardboard triangles glued and pinned in place. Canvas stretched and stapled and then glued. Happy days.