• 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. 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...
  2. Steve Maskery

    Probably Bye for now...

    The Internet went down this afternoon. It happens regularly. About 20 houses are affected apparently, so that must mean another village too, as there are only 9 of us here. All but one of us is dead. My neighbour Eric rang Orange, who assured him that they were doing everything possible to fix...
  3. Steve Maskery

    France's Freddie Mercury...

    When we lived in the UK, we went to a folk club every week. "Folk" was interpreted very loosely indeed. I've never really been into music of any kind, one of the things I love about living here is the silence and calm, but Sheila really misses the music scene. She found an open mic night only...
  4. Steve Maskery

    It's curtains for me - what on earth do I do with this?

    Today someone (not me but there are only two of us in this house...) decided to pull back the curtain and was just a tad heavy-handed about it. As you can see, I am not the first person to be here. The structure is: Granite wall Dob-and-dab plasterboard with 25 polystyene behind it. Thats it...
  5. Steve Maskery

    AI for Technophobes

    My partner is the least tech-literate person I have ever met. It drives me mad. She does know: How to write and send an email, but don't even think about CC or BCC How to spend hours doom-scrolling Facebook How to talk to her sister on Messenger How to use Google to search for Useless Stuff. I...
  6. Steve Maskery

    Painting MDF panels

    Ooh the Finishing forum. 'Ere be Dragons. I'm building kitchen cabinets. Nothing fancy, slab doors made from MRMDF*. Much of the paint in France is a bit meh. It's also expensive. I have found an outlet place, a shed on a farm, that sells loads of cheap and nasty end-of-line stuff, but they do...
  7. Steve Maskery

    Getting old and stupid

    I'm making this ^^&*(*&^ kitchen and getting right (*&^%^&* off about it. There hasn't been much progress this last couple of weeks as life has got in the way, but I distinctly remember, a couple of weeks ago, feeling slightly relieved that I didn't have to cut up any more MFC or MDF for a...
  8. Steve Maskery

    Now that's how to do Customer Service!

    We used to have a bank in our local town. Well, population decline has meant that it is now classified as a village (<2000 residents). The bank closed in January and our account was tranferred to a branch half an hour away. We had got to know the staff and they knew us and our circumstances...
  9. Steve Maskery

    Steve's Tip Of The Day- Don't run into a Police car...

    ... but if you do, get the hell out of there rather than actually following the said police car to the roundabout, off at the same exit, left at the same junction, to somewhere nice and quiet where he can pull you over. I was coming out of a supermarket carpark. I looked left, of course I did...
  10. Steve Maskery

    Hello, good morning and welcome...

    There is no reason for anyone to have noticed, but I've not been here this week. There is a reason for that. On Monday, our oven went pop. It was a replacement, under warranty, for its predecessor. At least this one lasted 20 months instead of 6. Ninja is not the brand I thought it was. They do...
  11. Steve Maskery

    Sausages

    I've no wish to hijack Cabinetman's excellent culinary thread, so I thought I'd start this. Sausages. All cultures around the world make sausages, and I have travelled a lot. I know I am biased, but in my mind the best sausages in the world are British Bangers, Has anyone else made their own...
  12. Steve Maskery

    The death of a tradition

    This is very sad news: https://www.theguardian.com/food/2026/apr/09/gentlemans-relish-london-restaurant-discontinued-maker-axes-anchovy-spread Gentleman's Relish is a fine old delicacy, a treat rather than a staple, and certainly not to everyone's taste. But if you get to like it, you love it...
  13. Steve Maskery

    Click-to-fit floor tiles

    I'm going to lay a new floor in our kitchen and I've found some tiles I like: https://www.bricoflor.fr/nature2floor-mineral-click-marbre-blanc-sous-couche-integree.html They are rated for commercial use (factories, canteens etc) so should be no problem in a kitchen. They have a 2mm built-in...
  14. Steve Maskery

    Happy April 1st!

    And Easter to boot. Time for its annual outing... Enjoy! S
  15. Steve Maskery

    Single bevel blades

    I'm doing a lot of edgebanding at the moment and I have a trimmer. It looked great in the advert... It's OK but it works better on melamine than it does on oak veneer and the edge is still a tad proud, it still needs a stroke or two with a blade. There is no adjustment on the trimmer. It is very...
  16. Steve Maskery

    Kitchen cabinet feet

    Calling kitchen makers. Because our kitchen is an odd shape, with obstacles in the walls themselves, and French kitchen cabinets, at least from the sheds, have backs made from cereal box cardboard. I've decided to build my own cabinets. I have done it before, but it was 30 years ago, maybe...
  17. Steve Maskery

    Makita clamps, Festool track

    Does anyone know if the Makita saw track clamps fit the Festool tracks? I'm inclined to think that they do, but it would be handy to hear from someone who has used the two interchangeably. I'm buying a sink from a company that also sells the clamps, and whilst I've never had any problems with...
  18. Steve Maskery

    And just when I thought...

    ...it had been a very good day (eye lady said everything is fine, come back in 12 months, found a proper timber yard, all good) Then, afterwards I went to the supermarket, flled up and went inside to do some shopping. On the way out, I droppeed a bag and this guy came over to help. He excorted...
  19. Steve Maskery

    Cumulative error...

    As I've mentioned elsewhere, I'm doing up our kitchen. I have a row of 5 wall cabinets, each of which is 400mm (any wider and the doors hit me in the face - DAMHIKI). So the run is 2m, right? It's 2010mm in reality. It's a combination of very slightly oversize tops and bottoms, and a slightly...
  20. Steve Maskery

    Kitchen cabinet door thickness

    I've made some kitchen units, they are ready to hang. I'm having enormous difficulty in procuring some MRMDF for the doors. It does exist over here (MDF Hydrofuge), but nobody seems to stock it. I can order it online and pay a fortune for delivery, but I really just want to roll up with my...
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