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Ropemunky

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  1. There are some recipes further down in this section I think.

    Bumper year for berries looking at the hedges round here, a good year to make some that's for sure.

    Not a bumper year for me. :( not a single one in my usual foraging spot this year.

  2. The one that boils my **** is gas or electric companies trying to get you to switch supplier.

    Now I'm a joiner by trade, so I try to strike a bargain with them saying ill switch electricity supplier if they have there doors and windows fitted from me.

    When the reply comes. "But I already have doors and windows sir"

    They get "Well I already have electricity mate" ;)

  3. You should pick them up, you may be paying to shoot there but manners cost nothing.

    Could not have put it better. It's just good manners.

    Plus it's usually young lads and lasses who operate the traps where I shoot and I bet they only get paid peanuts. The last thing they need is to tidy up after lazy people.

  4. I made two pieces of wood held together at one end with thin sheet metal srewed to the two ends and then drill between the two pieces with a drill a little smaller than the case. This alows the case to be gripped by hand with these tongues easily.

    With a hand drill instead of trying to hold it square do a slow circular motion with the drill hand.

    U.

    I was thinking of somthing quite similar to this. Maybe a hinged jig that holds half a dozen cases, but only leaving say the top half inch of the case length protruding so this gives you a quarter inch turnover and a depth stop.

    Does this seem feasible?

  5. Hi nick I'm a carpenter by trade an we did exactly the same to my old boss' kitchen.

    It was a nice kitchen but the worktops where showing there age. All we did was to add some batterns to the perimeter of the units along the walls.

    One thing I will say though is although granite worktops do look fantastic when you have them done, If you are not a fastidious cleaning freak they will soon look shabby. As they show up every smear smudge and speck of dust.

    Other than that mate you should be sound.

  6. Ah, my classic with car keys came about years ago when I had a company car. I'd arrived back at the office car park with a pile of documents. In a huge rush, I leapt out of the car grabbing keys & and an armful of paperwork and shot into the office where I dumped it all on my desk. Busting for a pxss, I ran back out to the car to lock it. Back then, you could lock the door without the keys by pulling the door handle and pushing down the lock button at the same time and then closing the door. As I say, my bladder was telling me to get a move on so I did the keyless door lock routine at 100mph.

    Slamming the door shut I suddenly experienced a bolt of pain in my other hand's thumb, which I had managed to trap in the, by now, locked door. Now I'm stuck. My bladder and my thumb are having a competition to see which of them can cause me the most pain as I realise that bladder, thumb and I are going to have to wait until someon came to rescue me; no mobile phones in those days. At long last one of the other lads form the company arrived and I managed, in a hoarse whisper, to tell him to go to my desk and get my keys RIGHT NOW! Needless to say, the whole office then arrived to take the mick before the door was eventually opened and my bladder dragged me off to the toilet.

     

    I can still remember the pain and humiliation of standing there, legs crossed, trying to look casual about it all. My thumb has never really forgiven my bladder for causing the whole drama in the first place.

     

    Cheers

    TT

    Ladies and gentlemen we have a winner!!

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