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Two working parents, children raised by child farmers. Our world’s gone to bagwash as my parents used to say.

And now for something completely different . . . The only woodwork is on the very simple Christmas trees. Built into the lids of Bankers Boxes - a little larger than A3 - and used as the lids of family Christmas Boxes.

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Lancaster is on the northern border of the Midlands.

But are you sure you are the customer - perhaps the oil companies or the truck stop operators are paying for the modifications.

You youngsters!! The first computer I had use of was a Ferrari containing two 1k blocks of core-store!

Worked all afternoon in the garden. Tired & but fed up. Finally quit for a break & a brew. Stuck the fork upright in the ground with some force- straight through wellie & foot. A& E. Wounds (2) cleaned & closed. Further puncture wound in left buttock for tetanus shot. Learned!!

Can you use a single folded piece of leather with the seam on the edge away from the teeth and the fold towards the teeth?

To my mind there is one major difference between sharpening on a ProEdge and any sort of wheel grinder any that is the shape of the bevel. The ProEdge machined produce a flat bevel while sharpening on a wheel creates a hollow grind where only the edge and the heel are on the same plane. There...

Cheese and marmalade sandwiches or cheese and raspberry jam but cheese and strawberry doesn’t seem to work.

I’m a real amateur in the woodworking world so I welcome all the help I can get! I wanted a MFT top but doubted my skills so I bought the Axminster base and a blank top then drilled a full set of dog holes using the Mk1 Peter Parfitt system (also from Axi). Did a five cut test. Worked...

Food safety??? Do cakes come with bare bottoms as it were?? Are you going to need to have a protective (for the cake) layer on top of each platform? Would Perspex or polycarbonate work?