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We have a ‘mid century’ Nathan extending dining table with an oak veneer tiptop. The Boss looks after the top with regular wax polishing but has recently read that Danish Oil would be better. What do the experts think?

In our house, the dog generally occupies the seat closest to the tv. Now i know why - I slipped into it while he was eating his dinner: it gives a much sharper picture than mine. He refuses to swap places - if I leave the room he returns to his spot.

Following this thread with interest as our 32in smart Samsung is mortally wounded. It can no longer receive ‘live’ tv via the aerial channels. Our local aerial specialist has checked that the aerial itself is ok. (Oddly all the live channels suddenly reappeared one day, only to vanish again next...

I don’t think lack of DIY is much to do with age. I’m 75+, restored several old houses during my life, rewired, replumbed, rebuilt etc. Last one I fitted UFH, pressurised HW, Aga etc. These day we are beset by regulations and potential insurance issues. Buildings Regs are incredibly complex...

Yeah, just a scare story. Just like smoking or handling asbestos or coal mining.

Cheap adjustable spanners are horrible, get a nice Bahco one with extra slim jaws - accurate fit and handy for sliding into tight spaces. Or just buy an open 1/2whitworth - plenty still around. Try a boot sale or on-line.

We spent several years fighting a losing battle to keep our 1933 wooden boat looking shipshape - winter undid the work of every summer - before turning to the relative sanctuary of a steel canal boat. I well recall the scary thrill of coming down the fast flowing Severn estuary from Sharpness...

Well you certainly got plenty of advice! My daughter’s experience teaching photography at a sixth form is that the ones who do the best are not always the kids with the fanciest cameras but those with creative ideas and who are prepared to put the work in (so much of these courses is project...

This is my daughter’s reply: Depends how much you want to spend. A Canon750d is all singing all dancing really nice camera that will last, but it’s not so cheap. Otherwise one of these second hand. Or a 4000d or 2000d or 1300d but those are getting a bit old now, but it would be pretty cheap...

He could start by asking his teacher/tutor. My daughter teaches photography at a sixth form college and is always giving her students advice - and on a whole lot more than photography 😉 I’ll ask her too for you.

I’ve been through a couple of those screwfix 90o chuck attachments and IMHO they are pretty ropey and clumsy to use. Very awkward to hold everything especially if reaching between joists. Both also had the little magnetic bit holder fall out so the drills keep dropping out. Fun. I’d buy the...

Thanks all for the thoughts. The house will be better prepared for a future event with flood barriers etc but the whole area is low lying so we can’t do much outside and don’t expect much from the EA which couldn’t even manage an adequate flood warning until we were already underwater. I think...

Two problems with getting it above flood level - permitted development height means that’ll be three feet less headroom inside. And the missus won’t be too chuffed at having to get the lawnmower up and down a steep ramp!

A year ago much of our village flooded in Storm Babet. We were 16ins in deep in he house and the garden shed at the end of our sloping site nearly 3ft under! I want to build a replacement - it’s a shed, tool store, bike store etc. How can I mitigate flood damage. Hopefully we won’t get another...

A big vote from me for DIY Kitchens. (diy-kitchens.com). They manufacture all their own stuff and have a big showroom on site in W Yorkshire. Well worth a day out to. To my mind the quality is excellent - the come fully built and with doors pre-fitted which was a big help for a diy-er like...

Our fabulous little Jack Russell-ish dog nicknamed ‘Seadog Brian’ because he travelled the country with us on our canal boat died aged 18. We buried him under the garden bench where he enjoyed sleeping in the sun. Three years on, I still can’t sit on it. And a bit of black humour to lighten...

A daft question probably but as it’s a gate what about just rehanging it half an inch or so higher? Or moving/changing the hinges? A lot of the existing mess would be hidden or could be fillered over. Signed A. Bodger

Advertise them on your local free cycle or FB Marketplace - people will have them for compost or chicken coops etc.

The last few weeks it’s been too hot and dry here in Suffolk- at least according to the missus who laments the lack of rain for her allotment. Mind you we are only just recovered from Storm Babet which flooded our house and many others last October and turned the fields into impassable...

Very likely; it’s the way they were when it was a cupboard. TBF no one is likely to be looking in - it’s only the missus and me.