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It's better than nothing but it could be a whole lot better. It has very little to do with the quality of the finished item or the route to get there, it's all about the individuals. That said, when you see Misti's zebra 'sculpture' in the opening credits, it looks a helluva lot better than it...

How on earth did Billy survive? How on earth was Misti Woodworker of the Week? Or do they mean weak? And were they a bit hard on Radha because the architect felt threatened by another strutting peacock?

I wasn't making any such claim, I was querying precisely what makes you qualified to assert that your opinion is the right one? If you cannot interpret that accurately then how on earth can you be trusted to interpret scientific data correctly? And you are 100% wrong with regards to my...

Says you, based on a lifetime of scientific study and qualification in precisely what? The correct use of two push sticks? I'm actually with you on that one but not sharing your opinion - for that's all it is - on climate change does not make me wrong. Droogs hasn't just nailed it, he's sliding...

No, it meant I already had answers. Don't get me wrong, I might not got as far as wearing a Save the Whale t-shirt or chaining myself to a tree but I have been into protecting the environment and its wildlife for a very long time, long before it became 'fashionable' to do so. It was this...

It saves the utility companies as they no longer employ meter readers. I've been querying this assertion for years and never had a straight answer from any company on the subject. I've only had this one fitted as I've not long moved in and the previous owner faced a £70k gas bill for a house...

You know, I'd never really given any thought to the power of a kettle so I've just checked the label and it says 2250-3000w. I'm not entirely convinced as to how accurate they are so not taking the readings too seriously. For example, at 7am it said I had used 40p for the day so I want to know...

The questions were purely rhetorical. As previously noted, Planet Earth has experienced 'climate change' mumerous times in its existence. It will have done so before man walked its surface and will likely continue long after we're extinct; the whales will probably still be here though. So a...

Last week, I had a smart meter fitted. It came with a 'smart' monitor that shows me how much is being used at any one time. I have separate fridge and freezer and obviously they need to be on all the time. I wondered just how much that cost and the monitor shows me that they run at about 1p per...

How's the ozone doing? Along with "Save the Whales", it seems to have become a forgotten cause, displaced by the new, in vogue causes with catchy taglines like Net Zero and Climate Change. Did banning CFC help the hole it had created to heal up? Or was the problem slightly over-egged, a...

I used both. I bought one of these and fitted it underneath the table, below a hole cut just beyond the insert plate; I refer to it as The Black Hole because it sucks in everything thrown forward. A 100mm hose runs to the larger extractor and a 63mm comes off the fitting to extract from the dust...

If Axminster were hoping for some quality advertising and sales from their involvement then I guess they're going to be sorely disappointed. When they announced the double elimination, I did wonder if the producers decided after the first two shows to speed things up a bit and save too much...

I used Festool clamps with Incra Track.

Isn't that the thing about Average Joe, though? That he doesn't claim to be an expert, just an enthusiast who enjoys pottering about with wood. I guess there's a world of difference between doing a little bit as and when in your own workshop compared to working flat out over two days, competing...

Same person who won the technical challenge and produced the gothic bed with upholstered headboard. Maybe 'Misti' hadn't made anything but perhaps the person 'Misti' morphed from had.

And he did!

On first watch, for me it was too much like GBBO with too many GBBO-type contestants. I have a deep-rooted scepticism of overly exuberant or exciteable people, or glaikit eejits as they're known where I'm from, so that immediately turned me off with regards to over half the contestants and most...

So has anyone actually watched it?

My mother used to say "This weather's getting me down" and as a kid I'd wonder how that was possible? Got my fist inkling when I was working weird hours down in London and all week the weather - more specifically the light - would be brilliant and then I'd leap out of bed on a Saturday morning...

At one point, I owned a number of tools tools by Ryobi, supplemented by options from Erbauer, Makita and Festool, each of which required their own bespoke batteries and chargers (except Makita which had two different battery types!). I owned something like nine Ryobi batteries and three or four...