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Memory Lane, 17th May 2023: Frankenstein’s greenhouse

Posted on May 13, 2024 by james

I have decided that the solar greenhouse shall henceforth be known as “Frankenstein’s greenhouse” because it has been stitched together from bits I’ve dug up from all over the place, many of which bear no relation to each other. I’ve … Continue reading →

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Memory Lane, 7th May 2023: Next stage of solar greenhouse

Posted on May 9, 2024 by james

To support the north-east wall of the solar greenhouse my plan was to build a wooden framed wall. The wall on this side isn’t going to have any glass, so that wasn’t a problem I had to deal with. In … Continue reading →

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Memory Lane, 4th April 2023: Solar greenhouse revisited

Posted on May 2, 2024 by james

I’ve not been keeping up with this one very well, but the project has been slowing moving forward. After levelling the area for the greenhouse, I used various bits I had lying about to make a base for the structure, … Continue reading →

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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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