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Good morning all. Hope all is well.

Wrought iron I believe. Cast iron was too brittle.

I really should take some vids. :)

So you had a nice fillet then oh yer lurvly. :p Laughed at the La Clape 🤣🤣

I heard that the reason the SS Great Britain managed to survive being as it was for so long was that its riveted cast iron hull resisted rust where a steel one would have rotted away. I'm sure you'll put pics up along the lines of "Wot I did at...

and as we all know that @kevstar loves cookery notes... Just to say that my main course today was tournedos steak with truffle sauce, which was very nice indeed and that the trimmings and veg were exquisite too. W was vastly amused as I kept on...

Ive got a riveted craft to scrap, under the water line is rotten & some of the rivets are leaking. It had a survey to get it coded but no chance of that happening.

Our whole village is inundated with ants, right old pain. :(

Me bugs came back so eye sprayed them again tonight. They is green fly. Some av wings which is how eye recognised them.

The MIL has been visited, she says she is not in any great pain, but she is on IV meds and hydration. :) Thinks she ought to be allowed home now but the medics cannot let her go. She has some way to go before they can decide on the right...

And you'd have to tell his Mum ...

Hope you had a lovely day :). J

Thats a cheap way to wash it :D. J

Stay alert, it might be a locomotive headlamp 😁

Sunny here! W putting a new summer dress on! Off to lunch in a few mins All the best for the rest of the day! :):):)

I don't think I have ever seen one. Maybe if you started the cut with another saw then carried on with the double cut? Yet more faff.

Having lost the tip off one finger, I draw back against my thumb but further back and higher up the blade so it cannot do damage. ex sil, an extremely good and experienced wood-worker, once cut through the tendons on his left thumb while sawing...

Mornin Sun is shining Sorting paperwork today, needs to be done. Stay busy all :)

Thanks mate! It's been a tough old year and this one ain't being a lot better. We keep hoping there is light around the bend in the tunnel. ;)

.... which is more or less what he said... which is why if you made them today like older craft, they'd cost much more and take longer to build by proper shipwrights/boatbuilders. All Teak and Brass. Larvely!! Or proper welded steel. Or do you...

Oh, a "Sawing" tip from me (don't laugh). Beware the "Double-Cut" jack saws because if you do the usual pull backwards against your thumbnail to get started on your perfect line they saw your thumbnail off. Because they are double-cut and they...

Morning All. :D Another blustery sunny day ATM. :) Have a great day.:D

Congrats! :D

Edgar can soak up about 2L per day from his sourcer. Last night eye jet washed the deadded bugs oft me lupins. Not sure if they will return.

Now you need to calculate each individual plant spices water requirements?

Probably up to his waist in water

Just bin watching wot eye finks is a squirrel. He were checking out me new pipe running along me garage. Interested in me meal wurm feeder but stayed on the roof. Watched a burd come to feed en go. Moved to the support pillar to view it from a...

No rain over night burreye has had squirrels visit so not all bad. Talk ov rain later int week. Might wash ma hippo if this continues.