Recent content by wellywood

If I'm reading this correctly, this is similar to what they are trying to impose over here. Local businesses are lobbying the gummint to reduce the value of goods bought on-line and imported to NZ on which GST (VAT) is imposed. Currently, if the value is less than $400 (about 200 GBP) no duty is...

I'm well out of touch with UK political identities but had to read one of the Telegraph-on-line latest news flashes twice to make sure i got it right. 'Ed Balls loses his seat...' He's fortunate not to have been called Ed Seat? :shock:

I use a Crock Pot / Slow Cooker.

Once you've cut off the posts you could try using post holders (see pic) set into your new concrete base. Cut the posts back to good wood then fit the holders before pouring the concrete (having temporarily supported the structure). This means you don't have to worry if the bottoms of your...

Nice chair Dennis. I thought a couple of Adirondacks would be my next project in time for summer rolling round again. But where's the hole in the arm for the beer bottle? :)

Now I see it. For some reason all I got the first time was the lower pic. It certainly looks like a shaker style like this: http://www.mlcswoodworking.com/shopsite ... bits1.html

Robin Hood was dying. He lay in his bed surrounded by his aging Merry Men and a rather wrinkly Maid Marion. 'Bring me my bow,' he said in a whisper. They brought it to him. 'Whither this arrow falleth, there shall I be buried.' 'Right O' they said. He shakily drew back the bowstring, let fly the...

+1 Give me cats over spiders any day. Ours is a 'talker'. Constantly squeaking and squawking and sounding like he's complaining about something. We call him 'The Whingeing Tom' :lol:

James, I can't make out what it is you're trying to replicate. There doesn't appear to be any shaping to the pieces in the pic. Is that a shot of the inside of the door showing the back of the floating panel in the frame ? Can you be a bit more specific. Apologies if I've misinterpreted what...

Bloody Southerners! :)

Aah! A literary man! Glad you recognized the quote. :)

Just to give an idea of scale. I wanted SWMBO to lie down next to it but she was oddly reluctant.

Had our winter wood delivered yesterday and found this. It's a black tunnel web (not to be confused with the nasty Aussie funnel web). I could see it was dead, but this didn't stop SWMBO poking it with a stick despite warnings that, if was still alive, it might grab the stick and give her a...

Yes Richard, we have that too. SWMBO and I use on average $15 worth of gas per month and the standing or fixed charge for the gas connection is an additional $45 !!!

I would have to go with Erik on this one. Our energy sector was privatized about 20 years ago with great trumpeting from the (Tory) gummint about the price savings that competition would bring the consumer. Having handed them the entire energy infrastructure (paid for by taxpayers), we have seen...