• Hi all and welcome to TheWoodHaven2 brought into the 21st Century, kicking and screaming! We all have Alasdair to thank for the vast bulk of the heavy lifting to get us here, no more so than me because he's taken away a huge burden of responsibility from my shoulders and brought us to this new shiny home, with all your previous content (hopefully) still intact! Please peruse and feed back. There is still plenty to do, like changing the colour scheme, adding the banner graphic, tweaking the odd setting here and there so I have added a new thread in the 'Technical Issues, Bugs and Feature Requests' forum for you to add any issues you find, any missing settings or just anything you'd like to see added/removed from the feature set that Xenforo offers. We will get to everything over the coming weeks so please be patient, but add anything at all to the thread I mention above and we promise to get to them over the next few days/weeks/months. In the meantime, please enjoy!

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  1. Phil

    Spreadsheet help

    Rog, with my kidney issues I had to do BP at least once a week and then when another half pill was added daily for 2 weeks. From start 2019 I have kept an Excel sheet with a graph and then e-mail that to Nephro and my GP. It shows the top high and low limits as well as the bottom high and low...
  2. Phil

    'Carpentry helped me recover the use of my hands' -

    Left thumb started with pains and loss of use. Joint fusion mid 2004 (winter, bad time requires lots of clothes). Move on a couple of months, more pain, so back to fusion in Feb 2005 (good time, lot less clothes). First op not successful. Second op worked and today thumb is very mobile. Bear in...
  3. Phil

    Retirement , what is the end game.

    My TDL is drawn up by myself. Wife knows it will be added, only I do the priority and also mark if big job. Anything urgent get attention NOW! :ROFLMAO: I have now computerised it in Excel sheet, still need to check and print, then also add priority.
  4. Phil

    Not feeling all there today.

    With a geriatrics corner?
  5. Phil

    Retirement , what is the end game.

    I took early retirement at 56, then did contract work for nearly 11 years. We had a large property 2000m2 which was lawn, trees and lots of work. 366m2 of buildings half of which wife had to manage. A couple of attempted break-ins. We decided to downscale and looked at retirement villages. Wife...
  6. Phil

    What I have fixed today

    Very good read. Years ago just before lockdown I went for a sleep test. Diagnosed sleep apnea, stopped breathing up to 30 seconds multiple times that night. I had to buy a CPAP machine, NOT cheap. Fought for 3 months with the mask, 2 different ones. Machine is still in the bedside cupboard...
  7. Phil

    Knife Fix

    The bit used is TCT bit. There were 2 in the packet and I like the look of them as spares. I have lots of concrete drill bits collected over the years as well as a collection of SD bits.
  8. Phil

    Knife Fix

    Thanks Adrian. Yes tang is short and the end did not look like it had broken off. I suspect that the rest of the set will also need to be done. Forgot to add - drilling the hole was a real pain, ended up using a 4mm concrete drill bit.
  9. Phil

    Knife Fix

    Job completed. I used a very rough rasp to round over the handle edges before mounting on the lathe. It was quite enjoyable using the lathe and the chuck. The tail end was marked and a small hole punched in for the pin. Between the chuck and pin it centred itself and I started with a gouge...
  10. Phil

    Knife Fix

    Pete, I agree. Here the pop rivet is going to be a pin (will cut off the end bit.)
  11. Phil

    Nilfisk Aero 26 21 vacuum woes

    Sounds like my wife visited you. She is a vacuum destroyer, last one she replaced herself.
  12. Phil

    A tad of mirth

    A little boy got on the bus and sat next to a man reading a book. He noticed the man had his collar on backwards. “Why is your collar on backwards?” the boy asked. The man, a priest, replied, “I am a Father.” “My Daddy doesn’t wear his collar like that,” said the boy. The priest looked up...
  13. Phil

    Can we create polls on the forum ?

    Rog, glad you are getting sorted. Now, where is the poll thread? Certainly need one on sharpening. Especially on pencils.
  14. Phil

    Conversion - bathroom to en-suite

    Nice project. You sure know how to pick 'em.
  15. Phil

    And just when I thought...

    My sympathy! Sounds like you live in South Africa? I get,at least once a month, a call on the mobile "this is Std Bank Fraud Department, there ia an aprroval pending for a purchase of ZAR15,000.00". I immediately ask "how much are you trying to steal this time" They end the call
  16. Phil

    Hello everyone.

    Welcome from down South. Nice kitchen!
  17. Phil

    Unusual winter weather.

    Wow! Nice! And here I stand in the garage, 35c today, no T, just shorts, fighting off the mozzies.
  18. Phil

    What I have fixed today

    Agree with you. Our medical appliance store "rents" them out just for the cost of cleaning and repairing. Wife lent her mothers to neighbours. There must about 30 people here using those walkers, I see a number of them walking past late afternoon from my garage window.
  19. Phil

    A tad of mirth

  20. Phil

    Mike builds a teardrop (tongue box and conduit)

    Ok. When we caravaned - wear T today, hang up to air and wear 2 dats later. Socks & jocks washed daily. Also when we went for 4 weeks overseas. (except business clothes for few days and wedding clobber)
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