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I see the humour in this, and I'm sure that those traits and many more often arise in some relationships, but I think I've been blessed. At 85, married for 62 years, (22,630 days!), through all the trials and tribulations of life that my wife and I have had, be it as husband and wife, as...

As to the original question - how to dispose of it: It has some value if anyone wants the hassle of describing it, and offering it on eBay or whatever. If it were mine and I wouldn't want the hassle of that. Every local Council throughout England has waste disposal/recycling sites, with large...

It will most likely be a Spit Matic. Still available. They use low velocity percussion caps The ‘gun’ has to be pressed against a hard surface such as an RSJ or concrete - you can’t simply fire a nail at someone as you would do a bullet. From a gun. Often for embedding threaded fixings to...

Death Star Canteen:

We don’t have that responsibility - collectively, the human race as a whole does, and the fact remains that anything the UK does has such an infinitesimal effect that it’s little more than virtue signalling. We know that it’s the USA, China, Russia, India et al who need to get onside. There’s...

And of course we (as in the UK) can't undo the damage. Global warming doesn't respect country boundaries. If we assume (and I don't), that global warming is wholly due to human activity, even if the UK was an uninhabited desert it would not make not a jot of difference to the climate. That's...

That article in the Guardian included this clip, which is facile: "Looking at the mass of information all pointing one way makes the current political arguments about how soon the UK should reach net zero seem trivial. We are clearly running out of time. Still, the idea is that people can use...

As I mentioned earlier, I just used two 5mm x 10mm x 2mm thick neodymium magnets one behind the other as they're closer to the curvature of the shaft (which in my case was about 4cms diam). Not sure how many on here are familiar with how powerful neodymium magnets are, but if you allow two of...