My daughter’s heart is sad and blue,She misses them, as we all do,But I have a book to recommend,That may help her heart to mend. “The Hare Shaped Hole” is a tale,That speaks of loss and how we prevail,The story’s clever, and quite brilliant,A perfect lesson, it’s truly resilient. It tells us that the ripples we make,Will carry on, and never break,Though loved ones leave us here behind,Their stories stay with us in our mind. So read this book with your little one,And watch the healing slowly come,The memories you share will never fade,And in your hearts, they will be laid. I only wrote the gist of the above poem, I asked ChatGPT to make it rhyme.. brilliant book.
I had a sickle blade, which my father-in-law had kindly given me. I’d sharpened it sometime ago but then it had hung on a hook every since, until today, when I found the inspiration to put a handle on it. The sofa that gave the leather for a few of my previous projects also had some nice woody in it, this is a bit of that. It rremains to be seen how well the handle stays on. I just heated the tang up nice and hot then beat the handle on.
There is a WSP logo where the letters scramble up and remake again. People have it in their email signature.. So i thought id re-imagine it a little.
We took a walk along what was once the line from Maiden Newton to Bridport. They’ve resurfaced and opened the stretch from Toller to Powerstock Common as a foot path. I was impressed how the wire fence has lasted. The joint was nice and even with the rust it’s not going anywhere. The galvanising on the posts must be pretty good as they’re still solid in the ground. The workmans hut has to be fairly old judging by the brick work construction.
I was asked to carry out a repair to this gate hook. It had worn down fairly substantially in the past decades. Having taken advice from a professional I chose to weld a new bit of steel to the existing pin there by restoring it to closer to what it used to be. I picked up some three quarter inch diameter round bar stock (mild steel). Having and cut a length of it equivalent to the length of the existing pin and I then away from this bit of bar so that they two fitted together to form a round pin. Then it was just a case of welding it into one lump. As it was, This picture was in this blog entry: https://bhhh.co.uk/circles/ Here you can see the very clean (wire brushed using the angle grinder) existing hinge pin and the slightly rust coloured bit of mild steel sitting […]
On my lunchtime ride today,I pedaled through Chilfrome on my way.Up the hill I rode with glee,To avoid the valley where it might be wet, you see. The temperature today was fine,Around thirteen degrees, so divine.The wind from the west blew strong,But the hedge blocked it, so I didn’t mind it long. From the entrance to a farm up high,I saw a view that caught my eye.Cattistock, in all its glory,Made me stop and marvel at the story. So glad I took this road today,On my lunchtime ride, what a lovely way,To clear my head and stretch my legs,And enjoy the beauty that nature begs. I asked ChatGPT to re-write my paragraph into that poem… I’m not that good..
Literally, I have an axe, and it had a very obtuse edge on it. My understanding is that a general purpose axe should have an more acute angle towards the edge. So I grabbed the angle grinder and hacked the edge away.
Well, I did get a little concerned after watching back the video I took last week of the Land Rover trying to cross axle. I thought that the front axle was doing nothing at all, then I thought that it was not doing enough and perhaps being restricted by the damper or that the front springs where too stiff. I found last night that everything is okay. I was wrong, it’s actually all working perfectly. I concluded in that video that everything is okay. Tried to set up some cross axle action without leaving the garage. Front wheel is 300 mm off the floor. I then went around and measured the gap from top of wheel to wheel arch. Front Off Side 195 mm, Front Near Side 100 mm, Rear Near Side 220 mm and Rear off side 10 mm. So from that we can deduce that the front wheels […]
I had some fun today at lunch time, delivered some books to a fella outside of the village, normally I’d take my bike, but it looked like rain, so I took the Land Rover and did my trick of videoing it. Also found a spot to try to test the prop travel.
We visited Meldon Reservoir at the weekend on the outskirts of Dartmoor. In the background of two of the pictures you can see the viaduct, which we never got to, but I’d like to visit at some point.
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