Michael Kilpatrick

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Hip Chic - fashion with Duke Ellington
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#jazz #DukeEllington jazzsky

None that come to mind.

Dodgy Wiska junction box.

New Wiska box, blanking plugs and washers.

6/ This is a bit disturbing. These Wiska boxes are IP67 rated, but the unused membrane ports on the top have either been eaten or rotten! It's all wet inside!

This box is by the pond, halfway to the garage. So, I've got a replacement and some blanking plugs with washers to seal all unused ports.

Consumer Unit labelled.

Galvanised box where four armoured cables meet in the garage for two separate outdoor circuits.

5/ Now I can print extra labels for the Consumer Unit. Yes, I put in an extra RCBO myself, separating two armoured cables into two circuits rather than on one RCBO. Shed/pond for one (16A), garage for the other (new 20A). Both go into a new junction box in the garage. Armoured glands - hard work!

4/ Just hack the bloody thing with a Dremel and a Stanley knife, solder a PP3 battery lead to the wires, reassemble, and you've got a device which takes either 6x AAA cells or a PP3 cell. Sorted. Common sense prevails.

3/ Let's just take the damned thing to bits.

Cover off, lift the main PCB a bit, extract the two bits that form the AAA terminals, and the wiring is obvious enough...

2/ And who wants to use the mains adapter if you're working in an awkward place?

But look, it's/almost/ big enough to fit a PP3. A rechargeable PP3 is 8.4V, and I know the device works with 2 rechargeable AAAs and 4 alkalines, so the why the hell wasn't it made for PP3 in the first place?

Dymo 160 Label Maker

1/ Quick thread on a bit of electronics DIY. I've got this Dymo label machine but it's REALLY ANNOYING because it runs on six AAA cells. Yro, bonkers. And it won't take 6 rechargeable AAAs because that's only 7.2V, not 9V.

Here is the battery compartment.

Nice bit of wiring in the garage, sorting out the mess of the armoured cables. Tidying up long overdue. Previous owners were a bit messy. I've used some PVC mini-trunking, and that's still a work in progress.

The stupidity of having an executive president rather than a parliamentary government doesn't really appear to be sinking in for people in the USA. They're not going to change their flawed constitution, ever.

I'm not entirely sure. I'd have to replay it.

#bbcqt Pothole man must have been a BBC plant to get a laugh right at the end

Absolutely anybody with a brain would prefer that if given that binary choice, even if the Tories were way down their list of preferences!

#bbcqt If we don't have a Land Value Tax, there will never be a penalty for brownfield site owners to leave them undeveloped.

Quite simple, really. Brown wasteland, no buildings? No tax. No incentive to build, no penalty not to.

#bbcqt Green Belt is itself a stupid construct that tries to defy 10,000 years of urban development and stop the natural growth of towns and cities. Ridiculous.

#bbcqt Shame Mrs Yellowjacket is rambling and incoherent as some reasonable points were buried in there.

But, Mrs, you need to pay attention to politics to know who represents what you want for the country. It's on you.

#bbcqt Look folks, like it or not, we vote for a person not a party, and MPs are representatives, not delegates.

Do you want to vote for a party without knowing the person? Do you want politics to be even more party-dominated, or for MPs to be more individualistic?

#bbcqt I started following this hashtag on "that other place" but found the proportion of nasty, racist, Trump-supporting loond is reaching epidemic levels. Yuck.

Calling anyone in the UK who knows how to find wild and constructive volunteering opportunities for a 19-yr old, whether it's digging wells for people in Timbuktu, or anything - if you know what I mean. Our Tom really needs something to keep him on track.

As for Richmond Park: well, in the end, Sarah Olney is good and I've met her personally a few times at party conference.

I've not read it until now. In fact, I still haven't, because I gave up jalfway when I saw what a rant it was, and I was trying my best to read it without my Lib Dem hat on.

Eh? You know the Lib Dems were in coalition with Labour in the first Scottish Parliament long before the Cameron years? And many local councils too?

Lib Dems, obviously.

NATO is already dead in the water thanks to Trump's antics over Greenland and his insults to many member states.

Denmark should ask the UK and Canada to help undertake Arctic monitoring from Greenland and expel the USA forthwith. There is little point prolonging this. #NAFO #NATO #Greenland

"That's far too sensible, which is why it will never happen" as I always say.

UK and France to send troops to Ukraine if peace deal agreed with Russia The announcement was made by UK PM Sir Keir Starmer after a meeting of Ukraine's allies in Paris.

There should be a full stop before the word "if". #NAFO

BBC News - UK and France to send troops to Ukraine if peace deal agreed
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An arts theatre/venue of some sort?

That any fella has the need to say such things is just totally unreal, it really is.

Makes a change from falling out of a window, which is the more usual form of vertically-inspired Russian "accident".