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I have the happy good fortune or sad misfortune of living in a 3 storey house . The top dormer window frames and sashes need painting. To save the expense of scaffolding in the past I have take the sashes out and painted them indoors and reach out to paint the frames and facias ( I ware a safety...

I'm afraid that repair shops in our neck of the woods, of which there once were many, are now a fondly remembered piece of local history. The only one left I know of is a cycle repair shop, which mainly concentrates on the highly technical racing bikes, he's only still in bussines because he...

Funnily enough I was asked to fix a battery Dyson, it was completly dead. I was able to check that the charger was ok, as the battery wouldn't take a charge I had to presume that was the problem. The owner addmitted it was not a genuine Dyson replacemt but a bargain from Ebay.

I really enjoyed the session. I met loads of interesting people with a similar point of view about extending the life of useful items etc. I was also pleased that TIVIR from this forum who came along and joined the conversation and we went for coffee. There was another volunteer woodworker...

Thank you, it’s really good to know how these organisations work and the sorts of things it’s reasonable to suggest they provide. All ready I’ve been asked what they need and I’ve not yet been to a session.

Thank you, that is most encouraging. I went to the venue yesterday and have a better idea of what to take, thanks to the comments above and the equipment they have in the library of Things. I’ll post tomorrow how it goes.

Thats what I'm hoping. Already rather pleased that trvir is interested!

It’s located on the upper floor of Glades, unit 268. it’s called The Hub . Its closed on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, though the repair cafe is an occaisional event at the moment. It shares space with a Library of Things. I haven't seen any of the kit, though I was told its all of good quality. I'm...

I have volunteered to help at a new Repair Cafe being set up in The Gades Shopping centre in Bromley this Saturday May 18th. Do any of you have any experience of helping at a Repair Cafe? I'm trying to work out what tools materials and equipment to take. I thought the organiser was going to...

We used to have a thread about stuff made from skip trophies which this should really be in. This is a game for our summer fair. Scooby-snacks for Scooby-Doo. We have load of games for small children to keep them entertained while families their money at the cream teas and in the beer tent. They...

I’m left handed and have never considered it. I think that being able to see the tip of the brush going into where I’m painting is most important. Painting to the right would therefore be easiest for seeing but to the left the smoothest way to pull the brush. When I was learning to write as a...

For those, like me retired with spare time, this is a very interesting article. Worth reading to the end. Mother trees and socialist forests: is the ‘wood-wide web’ a fantasy...

I’ve Just had fibre installed and they fused all the joins all the way to unit that splits the signal to the router and phones. No way I could thread it through anything. The installer told me the way they find any fault is by shining a light along the fibre and where it glows is the break. I...

Ar Are volunteering?

Pascal’s wager for the existence or not of a god comes to mind. I think it was summed up as not a risk worth taking. I don’t happen to agree with him on a god but I apply it to actions to avert a climate disaster. The funny thing is that a lot of the climate emergency deniers are also those who...

Sadly this is the way of the world and worse . All those stooges of oppressive regimes who are forced not to think or be responsible for their own actions for fear of reprisals.

The bars in the gym that were hoisted up and down were Douglas Fir.

My memory is that pe benches were Piranha Pine. Lab work tops Iroko. Those desks that you opened and kept your books in (and could drop to make dreadful bang ) were beech. That was in Kent schools which had an architects department that designed their own furniture and much was manufactured...

My experience with all government departments and agencies, after my wife died, was that I had to wait ages to get through to a human and explain the details of my circumstances and reason for calling only to be passed on down the line and go through it all over again. I was repeatedly given...