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Monthly Archives: May 2018
A comparison of bottle cappers
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
Checking on M’aidez brew
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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Tagged caramalt, m'aidez, phoenix, progress, special b, target
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Swimming, 14th May 2018
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
Swimming, 3rd May 2018
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
I’d have been quite cross
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
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
You’ve got a what?
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’
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
NextBase 312GW dash camera first impressions
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
Star Adventurer Polar Scope Alignment
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