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Ollie if it’s in a conservation area and not listed, you can ignore everything I said! Stuart

Is it a listed building? Is it a Church of England church? If the latter then the process for building control is essentially delegated, and the answer to your question would be proposed by the church’s appointed architect, and then approved by an appointed person that covers the whole diocese...

We have miles, and miles per hour. My car tells me my average miles per gallon. But we don’t buy gallons of petrol any more. Hmmm.

I was given a small ask to go on my key ring. I found it really useful from time to time. Then I went through airport security and had it confiscated. Bought another one so as not to have to admit how stupid as was to swmbo. Next work trip same thing, replaced it again. Next work trip was to...

I recently bought the jukebox one. I’ve done quite a lot of doors in recent years, but I was installing an internal pair of very tall and heavy oak doors. The design is asymmetric which had a few oddities. E.g the flip over 3mm stop to position the top hinge with a 3mm gap between top of door...

I inherited a rotavater from my dad some years ago, with a briggs and Stratton motor. Because it gets used early in the season, not at the end like the mower, I always forget to run it dry. E10 . Yet every year it still fires up after one or two pulls!

America is the best half-educated country in the world. (Butler) There are holes in the sky where the rain gets in. But they’re ever so small, that’s why rain is so thin! (Spike Milligan)

For any “live” channel with ads we intend to watch live, we still set the recorder going, and watch it from the recorder rather than real live. Then when the ads appear one can go and do something useful, and jump the ads. Most ofte we just start watching it about 10 minutes late, but then end...

I have a similar list of things I want to keep running in an outage, but have added fridges and freezers to that list. My backup is a generator, but either way, you need to be able to quickly connect the central heating and freezers to your alternative source of power. All of my essentials have...

Similar frustrations on my Toyota hybrid Auris. Twice I’ve found myself with a car that’s got fully charged batteries with several hundred volts of kick behind it, but with a flat 12v battery cos I left something turned on. It needs 12v in order to boot up the electronics. No way to borrow a bit...

Yes, just looked at one for my royal Enfield dated 1993, they were hand written then,but it was one of the things they had to fill in the box, so probably goes back way before that too. Stuart

And thanks from me too! It’s made me realise that all of my three countersinks are pretty dire and I’ve usually relied on the screw to hide the results. I’ll be putting in an order too this evening. Stuart

I don’t know the dimensions of your boot, but I would have thought that if you remove the outfeed table (no tools required) you could get it in lying on it’s side without removing anything else. They are not large machines. Don’t try and lift it on your own though. Take care (or remove) the...

Paint it with beer to get the process started! The one I made over 40 years ago got plenty of that in pubs n clubs. Still works!

Making bows and arrows with my dad worked for me! In the late 50s cowboys and Indians were in and boys had cap guns. At the house we lived in till I was seven I could find suitable branches nearby to work with, and as a seven year old could make ones that could shoot over the house into the back...

Our village church, which doubles as a village hall is heated by 6 electric radiant heaters that have been in use for about 15 years. They are switched on from a dedicated distribution box which has an 80 amp master switch and 6 trips/switches. The total draw is not much under the 80 amps. They...

I wish I’d thought of that use for the wide number three setting (which I’d never used till yesterday). I’ve never been remotely inclined to make my own domi’s either, but it gave me a very quick and easy solution to a problem yesterday.

The idea that the best place to put light switches in a house …. Is on a mobile phone, which may or may not be in the room, or even the house. They might be away and ask you to feed their dog/cat, and you can’t work the lights. Maybe some bright young thing will come up with the idea that...

As a kid, there was always paraffin to hand (same stuff really) and I was taught to use it for cleaning bike chains,gears and ball bearings etc. my dad used it to flush diesel engines. We have oil central heating and I have been known to scoop a litre or so out of the tank!

the section with lead inserts look very similar to components in a piano action. But possibly someone who has dismantled a piano repurposing the hammer action? Stuart