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  1. Steve Maskery

    Hot Heat 2026

    My car read 41C this afternoon. The steering wheel was too hot to touch. Today has been the hottest since records began in 1947. S
  2. Steve Maskery

    Hot Heat 2026

    I've got 2 guys working here at the moment. They've done only half a day today because of the heat and are not coming back this week. We've had several days on the trot of 39C, although the forecast has backed away from the 42C that they were promising us just a few days ago. It's too hot to do...
  3. Steve Maskery

    AI Recipes

    Sorry, Herbs de Provence. S
  4. Steve Maskery

    Geberit Type 240 and Type 340 mechanisms

    I know what you mean, Roger. I've started to make my kitchen drawers using Emuca kits. Decent quality, but ZERO INSTRUCTIONS. Nada. Zilch. There are some animated videos online which show you how they are assembled, but not HOWTO MEASURE OUT for that assembly. Plus I got two pieces "clicked"...
  5. Steve Maskery

    AI Recipes

    Isn't it strange how one's tastes change? I had it for dinner this evening. OK it's 38C outside and this is a winter warmer, perhaps not the best choice, but for me it was a bit bland. I shall make it again but with much more paprika and probably some HdeP. S
  6. Steve Maskery

    AI Recipes

    That's fair enough Adrian. You know I have only respect for you. Here, yes you can buy the frozen stuff and I am under no illusions as to the quality. I know about Mechanically Separated Meat. Here, I can buy mince in the supermarket at the butchery counter. It's rarely out on the counter, but I...
  7. Steve Maskery

    AI Recipes

    You are so posh, Adrian. 😁 I didn't make it yesterday, but it's now sitting ready to go in the oven. It doesn't look great, tbh, because I had only red onoins, so I it looks a bit like it's been eaten once already... But I expect it to taste great. S
  8. Steve Maskery

    AI Recipes

    Wow, bargain. Fill yer boots. S
  9. Steve Maskery

    AI Recipes

    Somewhere, I have a little paperback book called "Marvellous Meals with Mince", by Josceline Dimbleby. It dates from 1982. I can't find it. I'm doing the kitchen and I could lay my hands on it 12 months ago, but not now, I guess it's in a box somewhere. My partner doesn't eat meat, so it's a...
  10. Steve Maskery

    Makerfield

    Will it make much difference? I believe it won't be long before Parliament goes into Recess. S
  11. Steve Maskery

    Shaker oval boxes

    You could ask Ian John at Tuffsaws what blade he would recommend. He is brill. As I understand it, one should aim for as few teeth as possible (i.e. the biggest gullets you can find to carry away all that sawdust) whilst maintaining at least 3 teeth in the wood at any one time, (to reduce...
  12. Steve Maskery

    Shaker oval boxes

    Can you get a 1tpi blade for your saw? 1/2" sounds about right, but I'd say that 3tpi is bit on the fine side for deep ripping., or re-sawing. I dhould add that I've never sliced a veneer thinner than about 3mm, so you can take it with a pinch of salt if you wish! :) S PSI hope it contributes to...
  13. Steve Maskery

    Frame and panel wainscot.

    Very nice indeed. I wish my bedroom was that big. Where did you get those pinch dogs from, please? S
  14. Steve Maskery

    Potential Stars Waiting To be Born.

    I have never understood the fascination with watches, especially the likes of Rolex. The mechanism, oui, but to collect lots of different ones, all of which do only one job, I just don't get it. So many of them are difficult to read and I think that many of them are ugly. It is YEARS since...
  15. Steve Maskery

    hacked debit card

    Well, well, well. Half an hour ago two police ladies came round. They had a sheet of photos of suspects they wanted me to look at. Unfortunately I could not say that I definitely recognised either of them on the page. She told me that they had been doing the same thing all over Haute Vienne. She...
  16. Steve Maskery

    More P/T woes

    Just an update to this. The machine continues to work as it should, hoorah! But the cutting depth indicator is fictitious. There is a scale on the main casting by the side of the infeed table and a bent tin pointer on the infeed table itself. I forgot to take a photo, but it looked like the one...
  17. Steve Maskery

    David Hockney RIP

    I remember him explaining how the invention of the lens led to a change in how portraits of people were drawn and why some paintings depict people considerably out of proportion. The original "camera obscura". A very interesting man. S
  18. Steve Maskery

    Terminology - Two countries, separated by a common language

    Tablesaw = American (although that is also what I call it). The traditional UK term is Circular Saw Table, but I don't think I've ever heard anyone actually use the term, only in (old) publications. S
  19. Steve Maskery

    Terminology - Two countries, separated by a common language

    I'm shockified and dispurbulated that no-one has yet posted this link. S
  20. Steve Maskery

    Roof Collapse

    Ah, at least mine was a couple of hundred years old, probably. I don't know for certain, but our neighbours' house has 1802 carved, rather crudely, into the lintel over the door. S
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