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I'm being offered £15 to sign up for Amazon Photos online storage, as a Prime member. No strings attached (apparently). Now, my dear old Irish mother always taught me that nothing worth having is ever free, so what's the catch? I'm guessing they want to sign up as many people as possible and...

I have an issue with my gas bill. Knowing how long it takes to actually talk to someone I thought I'd try their live chat. Here's what I got:

The price of natural gas has been falling dramatically on the world market in recent weeks. In fact it is now around half what it was 12 months ago, BEFORE the huge rises caused by the Ukraine invasion. As I understand it, the energy companies buy their gas forward, by around 6-8 months. That...

Anybody tried to buy tinned sardines lately? Don't bother there aren't any. 50 years ago, when I was living in a bedsit in the worst part of Bournemouth (Boscombe Crescent, if anyone knows the area), sharing a rather disgusting bathroom and living on the wages of an apprentice TV service...

The BBC started their 6pm news broadcast tonight, in their headline report about shipping container hold-ups at the port of Felixstowe with the words "Don't panic buy". Unbelievable. That really worked with the panic buying at the pumps didn't it? That was totally unnecessary, totally...

20 years ago, when I moved into my current property, the patio was in a sorry, uneven state. Back then I pulled up all the slabs, levelled what was revealed with a screed of well wetted sharp sand, and relaid the slabs. That was fine for 15 years, now It's time to do the job again. Last time...

Is anyone having problems with Hermes? Or perhaps I should say more than usual problems? They have some kind of a deal with ebay where they appear to be almost the default carrier for private sellers. I have won three auctions recently where they have been selected by the seller and each one...

If anybody is in the market for a bench grinder Yandles are knocking £30 off the RPBG6 and RPBG8 today only (Friday). I have the 6" grinder and it's a nice quiet smooth running unit. https://www.yandles.co.uk/record-power-rpbg6-6-bench-grinder/p26198

I bought a new android tablet before Christmas in the Currys Black Friday sale. Very happy with it - a Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 reduced from £399.00 to £299.00 - managed to snag the last one at my local store. What I'm not so happy about is that I was signed up for a customer service agreement at...

Browsing through the new Stiles & Bates catalogue and I noticed a mention of a new lathe from Record Power called the Coronet Herald. No details and only one pic, of the headstock, which has the curvy cast iron look of the old Coronet and CL ranges, but with a flat bed in the background. It...

220mm x 110mm. Somewhere for the kids to put me ashes :P

I was taught, both at guitar-building school and by my wood turning teacher, that sanding sealer is applied before final sanding, to seal and raise the grain. It is then virtually all sanded away apart from what is left in the pores, its purpose being to enable a smoother surface through sanding...

I'm a happy bunny today; after watching a few youtube videos and buying a crimp tool and some RJ-45 connectors I replaced the faulty connector on the end of my laptop's LAN cable. I need the cable because I use the laptop to maintain a music and movie collection that often involves large file...

First project of 2017. It slipped in my hand as I was buffing it and the wheel caught the lip. D'oh!! (hammer). Hope no one was in the garden next door - the air went blue!

Santa's elves have been busy in the workshop this last fortnight making stuff for the family. Some small hollowforms from yew and a small tree my sister had cut down (she keeps telling me the name of it and I keep forgetting...), some dibbers for the horticulturally inclined, a zebrano bowl...

...right down at the bottom and then it's ready for sanding. D'OH!! (homer) (Only a cracked old bit of holm oak scrap I was practicing with so no serious harm done!)

My Tivo box has been slowly dying over the last month or so. I have read all the relevant topics on the Virgin forum (and there are a LOT), and tried all the "remedies" ad nauseam, but today it finally gave up the ghost. So, with heavy heart (been here before...) I called the dreaded Virgin...

Dremel Versatip Butane Soldering Iron - better than a mains-powered soldering iron based pyrography pen (much shorter warm-up time), portable and much less expensive than a proper pyrography outfit. 43% off on Amazon right now - normally £35.00, Black Friday deal £20.47. Not the least bit...

My son-in-law's Dad is a landscape gardener. He found a 4 foot long piece of 10x2 construction timber in a skip where he works and thought I could use it. The millionaire owner of the property is having a lot of work done. I think it's sapele. Mahogany-esque anyway... I bandsawed three 10" and...