Category Archives: Projects

Busy as a bee(keeper)

Posted on April 21, 2024 by james

After getting through other stuff today I thought I’d push on with a few things in the workshop to try to clear a bit more space. First up was turning some old frames from which I’d recovered the wax ages … Continue reading →

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Memory Lane, 3rd January 2023: Time for a new smoker

Posted on April 18, 2024 by james

I kept my old (cardboard box) smoker in the greenhouse because it was way too smelly to stay in the house. I fetched it the other day intending to do some smoking and discovered that smoked cardboard is in fact … Continue reading →

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Memory Lane, 9th December 2022: Progress on the compost toilet

Posted on April 16, 2024 by james

After getting the front and back sorted, I decided that actually the back wasn’t sufficiently high, so I made the sides a little higher and I’ll add an “extension” to the back to match them afterwards. After extending the back … Continue reading →

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Memory Lane, 6th December 2022: Compost toilet begins in earnest

Posted on April 15, 2024 by james

The floor that I posted about not long ago is now actually supporting something! I’ve started making the framing for the toilet from tanalised 3×2. Front and back first, so I can measure off the exact slope for the tops … Continue reading →

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Sawdust for sprinkling on an open, err, well, you’ll get the idea…

Posted on April 5, 2024 by james

I’ve “made friends” with a local business that does lots of cutting wood. And now they offer me their waste sawdust, which I will use as “cover material” for my compost toilet. There’s plenty of it, too. Today I was … Continue reading →

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What have you put in my drawers?

Posted on April 5, 2024 by james

As reported recently, I made a third insert for one of our kitchen drawers. Cleaned up and sanded down, here’s it.

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Some forgotten CAD work

Posted on April 3, 2024 by james

For the drawer inserts that I posted about earlier. That’s “Cardboard Aided Design” 😀 This is how I started, as given the space available and the number of shapes and sizes to be accommodated, I had no idea whether what … Continue reading →

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Uno, dos, trays

Posted on April 3, 2024 by james

Last month I posted about making new drawer inserts for our kitchen drawers. These: Well, you know how it is, same as last time. Sooner or later it happens… “What you did is really wonderful. It’s made such a difference … Continue reading →

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Memory Lane, 5th November 2022: How much do you need more compost?

Posted on April 2, 2024 by james

Quite a bit, in my case. So I have embarked on a new project, building as much from reclaimed timber and other re-used parts as possible. Can you tell what it is yet? That’s the floor, carefully engineered from scraps … Continue reading →

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So I might build a “polycrub” sooner than planned

Posted on March 29, 2024 by james

Given the problems I’ve been having with my cheapy polytunnel, it struck me today that I could turn it into a kind of polycrub given, say, some recycled scaffold boards for the sides and six sheets of twinwall polycarbonate. I … Continue reading →

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