the Vatican

I'd love to spend a week in their library unsupervised.

Bearbonesnorm wrote: ↑Mon Jan 20, 2025 5:15 pm

the Vatican

I'd love to spend a week in their library unsupervised.

Yeah, don’t get me started on them [GRRRR!]

Good luck you folks oop north today. Looks like a bit of a breezy one, and a stouter shelter pegs situation. Interesting rather than cheery I'd imagine.

Quite glad I did my BAM last weekend....
Quite blowy out with worse to come, see you on the other side!

RIP wrote: ↑Fri Jan 24, 2025 9:04 am Good luck you folks oop north today. Looks like a bit of a breezy one, and a stouter shelter pegs situation. Interesting rather than cheery I'd imagine.

Yesterday we signed the papers taking full ownership of our rescue dog.

Last night he spent all night, yes all night, barking at the flap on the letterbox that was rattling in the wind He's currently up against my legs looking wary and grumbling because of the wind.

I'm thinking of superglueing some of those mini-magnets onto the letterbox flap - should be strong enough to stop the rattling.

Compliments to Stu for not rescheduling the WE to this weekend .

Curiously nice day here (apologies to you northerners). So I'll go with Cheery since have just taken possession of some new saplings to add to my guerilla gardening escapades.

20 blackthorns, 10 spindles and 10 guelder roses. Just gotta plant them at the river now.

Also managed to obtain a rare lady black poplar. Black poplars are the most endangered native timber tree in the country. I managed to plant ten small saplings some years ago and they're now all well over 20 feet high. Unfortunately I never knew what gender they were which means I don't know if they'll pollinate. You only get to find out when catkins finally appear.

So, I've now got a guaranteed lady and a guaranteed bloke to add to the group.

Of course, if there's already five of each at the river then I'll have six couples who should get along fine. But if there's ALL blokes or lasses there already then the single new male or female is going to be a bit in demand. Might get a bit spicey down there at rutting and pollination time .

The ladies are much rarer than the gents - only a few hundred in the whole country apparently.

Phew, that was a blaster!
Minimal damage round here and electricity remained on throughout which is a miracle...
Looking good tomorrow and also looking like we'll get some proper snow on high over the next week

Hmm.

I've been on LFGSS for about 15 years now, and never been offered FLDC.

What a load of tosh. Apparently if they declared such things as f***book and twa*** as publications that people contribute to to (i.e. a newspaper) rather than a 'platform' that simply hosts what people put on them, then they would be subject to censorship. I guess the rich idiots who run these things managed to lobby against that and this legislation will do FA to stop all the hate posts, fake news and crass advertising

Vote with your feet and ditch them all. This place will be alright as we are all so nice

I've been on LFGSS for about 15 years now, and never been offered FLDC.

FLDC = ?

So far I've got

FLDC Florida Department of Corrections
FLDC FoldingCoin (currency)
FLDC Family Life Development Center (Cornell University, New York)
FLDC Full Length Dust Cover (guns)
FLDC Florida League of Defense Contractors
FLDC Financial Leadership Development Club (New Jersey)
FLDC Flexible Learning Development Centre (Aston University; UK)

But I'm guessing they're not the ones. I saw the post by Valecio about closing down. I agreed, what a load of tosh he was talking about. Generally a nice bunch, but a bit 'specific'. If you try to sell the wrong thing at a price that's not quite right, you're screwed.

Good riddance to it is my opinion. No one needs more trash from people's cellars, but no need to make an excuse about some new legislation coming in that no one's heard of

Apologies to anyone concerned, in advance. I come in peace

I made my first custom/engineered bedside table

For a client who only has very minimal use of his muscles. I know that if he could he would, but he sometimes gets tired controlling his one/few finger controlled wheelchair and someone has to take over.

A legend of a human being if I've ever met one and he's one of the oldest in this country with his particular disease - duchennes muscular dystrophy. His old one really is falling apart, but it's vital to some of his needs and I've always looked at it with a feeling of deep sadness.

I asked him if he'd like me to make him one and he said yes. But the catch was that it needed to be the same size and height. Maybe an extra shelf underneath, so I took some measurements. Then got to work!

I chiselled out the sections for the legs to sit in. He wanted a second shelf for his breathing machine to go on, done. I grooved out the sections underneath the tops so it all stays square and also dug the screws in further. So I could then knock some dowel in and chop it off.

Any random holes in the wood were wedged/filled with wood cut offs and sawed off. For that I got a new saw, which should have been a Japanese pull saw but I settled with a Bahco 15tpi toolbox saw. Doesn't have the spine so I managed to fine cut the doweled in type sections.

Also whilst I was at Screwfix there was some Norton porous sandpaper on offer. What a revelation as it sat straight onto my cheap Wickes sanding mouse and did an amazing job. For the feet I was a bit concerned as even after lots of 'squaring' and measuring accurately I still had a slight wobble.

This turned out to be just 1mm extra needed shaving from opposite legs, for which the sander did a fine job (no pun intended). Could've left it at that, but I didn't want to risk him painting it all grey or something. So a couple of layers of ear varnish went on (oil based).

All reclaimed/recycled wood which has been sat about for years in various ways/shapes. Here it is...



https://imgur.com/gallery/XTg5fJ

Well OK, the screws in the top didn't make the 'dowels' cut. But I did sand and varnish em over. I also ensured to keep em uniform. Hopefully it lasts a lifetime and the wife has already said that she wants it back when he decides to get rid. But I'm hoping he will like it, and it'll survive the test of time. Precise height too as to what he needed (for the hot-blowing fan) to stay warm.

this legislation will do FA to stop all the hate posts, fake news and crass advertising

I suspect you're right on that, Phil.

Vote with your feet and ditch them all.

There may be a problem here in that small sites (LFGSS, the village council, local cycling group) close down, leaving only the corporate behemoths for folk to use as platforms. For small operations, the potential impact of falling foul of OFCOM is too great a risk* to bear; for Google/Meta/Elon, any fines can be viewed as the cost of doing business, a drop in the ocean of their huge profits.

Good riddance to it is my opinion. No one needs more trash from people's cellars, but no need to make an excuse about some new legislation coming in that no one's heard of

While you may not have got on with it, Shaf, many people do, and it's a real community both online and IRL. Unfortunately, this piece of legislation can affect a huge swathe of websites, this place included. Stu and Dee may look at the legislation and decide that the likelihood of being affected is so unlikely that it's not worth taking any measures to address it, and that's fine. However, if you think for one minute that Dee Kitchen is pulling the plug on LFGSS just to avoid having to deal with spats in the classifieds, you're missing the point by a long way.

*Even if the probability of the risk becoming an issue is negligible, the impact is so great that the risk can't be tolerated.

Nice table, BTW.

fatbikephil wrote: ↑Wed Jan 29, 2025 10:22 pm What a load of tosh. Apparently if they declared such things as f***book and twa*** as publications that people contribute to to (i.e. a newspaper) rather than a 'platform' that simply hosts what people put on them, then they would be subject to censorship. I guess the rich idiots who run these things managed to lobby against that and this legislation will do FA to stop all the hate posts, fake news and crass advertising

Everything you never wanted to know about it - https://bipartisanpolicy.org/blog/secti ... platforms/

RIP wrote: ↑Fri Jan 24, 2025 5:12 pm Also managed to obtain a rare lady black poplar. Black poplars are the most endangered native timber tree in the country.

If memory serves me rightly, back in the distant past when I was being educated for my trade and taking in a bit of vernacular architecture, black poplar used to be used for the base plinths under vertical structures in barns

I wish that people would stop posting in this thread when it isn't Friday. I've just had a sudden flash of optimism, which was cruelly dashed when I checked my calendar.

I've got tomorrow off work to go bike riding, so am playing the early start to the weekend card!

The Cumbrian wrote: ↑Thu Jan 30, 2025 3:13 pm I wish that people would stop posting in this thread when it isn't Friday. I've just had a sudden flash of optimism, which was cruelly dashed when I checked my calendar.

Aye, fair cop. I must admit I sort of treat it as the "sitting in the pub with a pint cheerily talking bollocks" thread. Saves cluttering up the rest of the place with new topics. Along with the "Bivvy a Month" thread it tends to be a 'safe place' for the more, um, certifiable members of our brethren.

The Cumbrian wrote: ↑Thu Jan 30, 2025 3:13 pm I wish that people would stop posting in this thread when it isn't Friday. I've just had a sudden flash of optimism, which was cruelly dashed when I checked my calendar.

Just what I was thinking
Moderators!

4 day weekend started a few hours ago

Does mean I’m decorating tomorrow, but hopefully three other days of fun

Bearlegged wrote: ↑Thu Jan 30, 2025 3:20 pm I've got tomorrow off work to go bike riding, so am playing the early start to the weekend card!

For some people everyday is a Friday I just got back from a ride with Tony Ton. Another Friday for me. We did a tonne. each.

Well, listening to Nick Cave's desert island discs this morning was pretty darn good. And looking forward to a nice weekend ahead with a trip to visit family in Dorset.