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Sorry to hear of your trouble, you're right though "When sorrows come, they come not single spies but in battalions." never feels more accurate than when funds are tight, time is short, tempers too, and the weather's **** to boot.

@Wellywood - very good, I particularly like the re-telling with the bowler hat and flat screen TV - old meets new, but it still works!

Maybe I should have made my attempted joke clearer - Macs are perceived by the faithful as beyond fault, ergo any fault must lie externally.

Isaac Asimov used to re-frame jokes with potentially racist/ethnic slurs by using the fictional country of Ruritania, e.g. Q: Why do Ruritanian dogs have flat faces? A: From chasing parked cars... The tradition is still alive in the Dilbert comics where Scott Adams uses the country of Elbonia...

Squeezy bottle, followed by: - Silicone glue brush that I picked up in the US - very easy to clean for water based glues - Tongue Depressors (large ice-lolly sticks) - where I know clean up isn't worth it/possible You can get 500 tongue depressors for a tenner delivered from your on-line...

Given that it's a Mac are you sure it's not that the Internet itself may be broken? :D Okay, baiting aside, are you able to try a wired Ethernet connection? We had a problem recently where one phone was bringing the whole network to a grinding halt because of poor WiFi behaviour.

Old goat indeed, and remarkably frank in his diary entries: and feeling for a chamber-pott, there was none, I having called the mayde up out of her bed, she had forgot I suppose to put one there; so I was forced in this strange house to rise and ***** in the chimney twice; and so to bed and was...

The eagle eyed among you will have noted the UK 13A wall sockets on the kitchen wall. I did a Google image search, which led me to http://www.houzz.com/projects/7214/Wenge-and-White, which led me to http://www.glenvalegroup.com/, which via some more Google-Fu led me to Blum. The plate holders...

I think I'll have to plead ignorance here! My only carving tools are a small set of Flexcut, I hone these in accordance with Flexcut's directions with the supplied Flexcut profiles and yellow compound. I haven't had to regrind yet, the little and often approach seems to work quite well, at least...

Toby, you're welcome I hope there's something useful there for you. No I don't attend any of those meetings, that's the wrong part of Dorset for me I'm afraid, almost Hampshire indeed! Also, time pressures are against me at the moment, I'm doing well if I can carve* out a couple of hours at the...

Okay, can't help myself, what are your second, fourth, seventh and eighth pieces of advice? You can't leave me like this the suspense is killing me! :wink: And please let it be true that you've got a tenth! (Maybe that's to have a really fresh cup of tea at hand?)

So did I twenty-seven years ago! I tend to shave by touch these days to avoid the reproachful stare of the old geezer in the mirror. (The book was published in '87)

Funny, those are the same search terms I use to find my work clothes...

Phwoor, woof woof, etc. Some nice ideas there - although the corner drawers (#30 & 31) really don't use all the space...

A little bit of heresy - I've got a carbide rasp that I bought a few years ago to tidy up some awkward tiles. It leaves a surprisingly good finish on wood if used with a light touch, can be used in any direction, and cost ~£5. It tends to clog quite easily but it's proved its value more than a...

If you're interested in the previous version of this saw (Makita JR180D 18V NiMH) I may be selling mine soon.

Okay, one more for you: http://mudefordcarvingclub.blogspot.co.uk/ they meet in Stanpit village hall on Thursday evenings

You're in good company, "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." King Henry VI, Part 2

Toby, http://www.ringwood-woodcarvers.org/index.html - St Leonards & St Ives Village Hall every 1st & 3rd Tuesday of the month, from 6-30pm till about 9-00pm, not far from you Or, if you can get yourself to Brockenhurst college (it's not far from the station if that helps) they've got a...

'nuff said, people used to take pride in their professional appearance. :wink: If anybody's interested you can pick up a first edition copy for £34.99 at Oxfam, while you're about it you can look out a new monkey suit. http://www.oxfam.org.uk/shop/books/home ... _100206653