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Sorry. I haven't any champagne to hand. I drink mine. :mrgreen:

And there was me complaining about using chopsticks! :lol: Thanks Kethie

+1 for the guitar (Gibson Manic! Jazz is my preferred field.) Currently looking for a Yamaha Digital piano, to pick up where I left off learning. Well it's another reason to keep going at my age! John

When I served in Malta, I also became much lighter over the first month. That's how long I suffered with 'Malta Dog'. (Which I have at present, courtesy of Ramipril! ) :shock: Thanks Custard. I'll keep trying but as I go for a meal just once a year with my art group friends, it'll take some...

That looks like my Brooks Griffon, 'cept mine is red! :D I bought it in 1971. The motor has never blinked, and it still runs as smooth and quietly as it ever did. John

Well I agree it would be nice to be able to use chopsticks. But despite being shown how, and getting on quite well for five minutes or so, I still end up with my food being distributed around the table to either side of me; not to mention on the floor. I gave up. I have collected a few pairs...

I have a 'back-boiler' behind my gas fire. I leave my heating on. If the house overheats , which it can do, I adjust the downstairs thermostat, or control each rad independently using the 'stats I had fitted to all of them. This means I can turn off rads in the rooms I don't use often and just...

Brooks Griffon 1hp induction motor is the original for my Coronet Major machine. Try the following link. http://www.coronetwoodworking.co.uk/ Derek Pyatt is a very knowledgeable and amenable fellow. What he doesn't know about Coronets isn't worth the bother. HTH John

Chopsticks... A nice exercise in making, but using them? I can't think of a more impractical way of getting food from a plate and into one's mouth! I just fail to understand why a culture which invented/discovered gunpowder, and fireworks, never considered the concept of forks, with sharp...

Raw linseed oil, cut with a little kerosene or white spirit. That's all I ever used. Only snag is, nothing is proof against saw-cuts, chisel marks, and careless drilling. That's why my benchtop only lasted 40 years! O:) (hammer) John

Usually it depends on the gap and/or the timber. I have filled gaps with veneer slips in half-blind dovetails, where the tails were a fraction too short. Once the veneer slips are tapped home and the joint cleaned up it's near nigh impossible to tell. If it's just one tail, lengthen all the...

Custard... You could be right about clamp v cramp, of course. However, I seem to recall, the use of clamp for cramp, is imported nomenclature from the USA. I can't ever remember particular wood-tradesmen over here calling them sash-'clamps'; always 'cramps'. But as time wears on, especially...

Opinions on fences and fence post WIPs are somewhat divided... 8) :wink: Happy New Year. John

Not live meal worms. I can't think of a means to store the things, nor how to feed them; presumably you need to, in order to keep them tasty for the birds! Knowing me, I'd forget the worms, and finish up with loads of beetles. i like the idea of stations all round the garden. it would be great...

As me old Dad used to say, if you want to find out about anything, you'll find the answer in a book! That's my excuse when the family moan about my plethora of books. (Not my daughter though. She caught the bug when she was a toddler.)

But they haven't been near my new seed feeder (one month in a static position) I have to put meal-worms and seed on the ground! Result; trouble with starlings. Greedy noisy blighters. So I have bought a squirrel 'proof' 'nut feeder', some chopped up nuts, and some suet pellets. Already, I...

Same effect with Hartley's sugar free jelly! Talk about the gripes! :lol:

It was so bad I dared not even try! I just made it to the public depository! :lol: :lol: :lol:

Absolutely Lurker... Fully qualified according to the bunkum they were fed when they trained.Known as 'Conventional wisdom'! 8) McKeith suffered from some arcane condition affecting her spine. (I can't recall the name.) I wonder if a lack of minerals, which could be found in meat, contributed...

Metformin eh? I have been taking it for about 12 months now. I wonder if that's why I have frequent bouts of the runs! (I can't spell diarrhea) The other day I almost had a very embarrassing interlude in the middle of Sutton Coldfield! :shock: :ho2