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As a person who wears a carpenters toolbelt with a good few full sized tools on it every working day I don't really need a swiss army knife. A hammer, tape measure, catspaw nailbar, stanley knife, very nice double fulcrum end cutting pincers, roofing square, various pencil, lumber crayon marking...

Good job he didn't have a hammer with the sickle or they would have called him a Communist. A significant issue here as far as I see it is accepting a police caution or really taking advice from the police. I'm not 100% convinced that they are really on the side of anyone but themselves. After...

Anyone use Renaissance Wax in steel to protect it? Seems thats what museums use. Used on metals, wood and other stuff I can't remember. As far as I can work out its a "Blend of waxes" mixed with a bit of white spirits. Or mostly microcrystalline wax with some marketting guff and 11 herbs and...

Pea and ham soup. From a chicken, thats clever. For anyone wondering WTH I'm chuntering on about, it was an advert yonks ago. Ha, I found it. Clicky, here.

The explanation I heard about Pine Martins and greys v reds was that greys spend a bit more time on the ground than reds where the Pine Martins are better at catching them. The martins eat whichever they can catch but the reds aren't as easy to catch. I can attest to the efficacy (or lack of...

My mother was left handed and when she was a kid (she was born in 1933) the schoolteachers made her write with her right hand. To be fair, that meant when she was an adult she was more or less ambidexterous which has some advantages. Oh and being left handed is "Sinister" to various versions of...

This link might help, I've not tried it but watched the vid about a week ago. Might be worth a bash. Youtube link. The grain on that bit of ash goes kind of diagonal and might be an issue but even if it doesn't work its a technique worth learning so have at it eh?

Two Dippers along the river and just before I left, a Kingfisher flew past. There's often a Heron there and I think I have once seen an Otter in the river. It was sure bigger than any Mink I've ever seen anyway but I couldn't see it that well.

It's all over the shop on my dog walk by the river. I quite like it although the overall effect would be better with a unicorn galloping through the river, Legend stylie.

Aye, and afterwards the wooden handle swells up and takes a week to dry out and allow the blade to move freely again. I half like Opinels, they're very French. Something to have in a collection. But then the other half remembers actually owning one. Very slicey blade shape but the steels a bit...

Most five gear cars without the lift or press down to allow reverse selection have reverse on the bottom right. My van has, it's not really an issue. Whe I take it out of fifth to select fourth or third I allow the lever a bit of freedom and it finds its centre neutral position and its either...

As a demonstration of a high milage vehicle thats almost always run upto temperature each time its started my battered Toyota Hiace has done quarter of a million miles but is still on its original exhaust. Short runs where it's not warmed up are bad for engines. And yeah, I've heard wet belts...

Aye, that's the badger. Seen recently they're available secondhand for reasonable money. We have one we paid full new price for and likely next payday I'll get a secondhand one for downstairs. Spares are easy to get and fit. If ai remember right ours was about ￡180 quite a few years ago but my...

We have a Sebo...err... Automatic...something. It uses bags, parts are easy to get hold.of and easy to replace, seems like the design has had a long production run. Thats for home. For work I have a Festool CTM extractor with Bluetooth so it starts when my cordless ripsaw starts. It also...

Radio series but its excellent. McLevy. Well, I think there's about 11 series of it.

Montalbano. Kind of a Sicilian Bergerac type bloke. There's some pretty decent foreign detective stuff on Chanel 4 as well. R. Daneel Olivaw in Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov. Takishi Kovacs from Altered Carbon by Richard K Morgan.

Not so much "Spotted" as picked up from.behind a box of screws after it flew into the building. A Swallow. Released it outside and it flew off. Thats it really.

Private eye, Channel 4 news (BBC, fell off the list with their coverage of the Gaza genocide where Palestinians "Died today" but Israelis were "Killed"). I do watch a bit of Youtube but try to avoid being in the search bubble by never signing into it, and rejecting cookies. That's not perfect...

Ha, when people do.a "Pocket Dump" on here its like smartphones don't exist and everyone has a bit of reindeer hide to display a posh watch and so on, on. Usually on a bit of wood, in their garden. I've just got a not particularly smart, smartphone. It takes pix. Oh and my watch is a Casio...

Most reliable metal detector known to mankind is a plumber borrowing one of my good chisels. Guaranteed to find a nail with it. Nowadays I bomb them off when they ask but I used to be far more helpful and I'd lend them the odd chisel.