Monthly Archives: May 2018

A comparison of bottle cappers

Posted on May 14, 2018 by james

For many years now my favoured bottle-capping tool has been this two-handed capper that I bought longer ago than I can remember: It can be a little awkward and isn’t ideally suited to employment by a handy young assistant, but … Continue reading →

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Checking on M’aidez brew

Posted on May 14, 2018 by james

After a week in the fermenter I checked my recent brew. Fermentation still looks to be going on at a reasonable rate: And a quick check with the hydrometer shows it’s got a bit of a way go to yet: … Continue reading →

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Swimming, 14th May 2018

Posted on May 14, 2018 by james

I’ve had an unintentional break of about a week since my last swim because work has been rather busy, but today I was back at my next attempt on the 54s reps of 50m: 400m front crawl warm-up 25 x … Continue reading →

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Swimming, 3rd May 2018

Posted on May 14, 2018 by james

Back for another go at the following: 400m front crawl warm-up 25 x 50m front crawl, target time 54s, rest interval 21s 200m front crawl swim down Felt better today and the pool was near empty so I just got … Continue reading →

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I’d have been quite cross

Posted on May 13, 2018 by james

if I’d been this cyclist. From my dashcam for the trip to take my son to his swim training this afternoon, “white van man” clearly couldn’t wait until it was safe to overtake and instead just pushed this cyclist right … Continue reading →

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Hardwiring the NextBase 312GW to a Ford Fiesta

Posted on May 13, 2018 by james

It’s irritating that I neglected to take photos of this though there are plenty of videos on YouTube. I was expecting a bucketful of problems installing the hardwire kit for my dashcam, but actually it turned out to be quite … Continue reading →

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You’ve got a what?

Posted on May 13, 2018 by james

For reasons too long-winded to be interesting, we have two phone lines that are delivered over a single copper pair from the exchange. This is achieved by the magic of a DACS unit which effectively multiplexes two voice lines over … Continue reading →

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First dashcam ‘incident’

Posted on May 10, 2018 by james

I didn’t need to wait long for this, then… Taking a different route to the swimming pool because of road closures I reached a section of road with a 60mph limit and began to accelerate when this appeared on the … Continue reading →

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NextBase 312GW dash camera first impressions

Posted on May 9, 2018 by james

I’ve had a few drivers pull particularly bizarre stunts on me of late, not to mention having had to dive into the hedge because a car has come around a blind bend in the middle of the road once or … Continue reading →

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Star Adventurer Polar Scope Alignment

Posted on May 9, 2018 by james

Having checked the tracking accuracy of my Star Adventurer already, I wanted to make sure the polar scope was correctly aligned before trusting it to location the pole using Polaris. There are a couple of things to worry about for … Continue reading →

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