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I've not had much time to swear at the deadlocked Octavia door over the last few weeks, but this weekend I decided I needed to get back to it. Finally I have managed to remove the inner steel door skin, which is something of a pain in the bum to do if you can't open the door. Most of the...

Me too. It costs me little to do so and given that I have the necessary skills it just seems like a socially responsible thing to do. James

And quite often rather nearer to the coast than is entirely comfortable :D James

And why is it always the men who seem to want to wear dresses? James

I'd guess that the volume increases by a factor of three to four, but that really is only a guess. James

There are far more issues than that when you live somewhere very rural, sadly. Where we are, there is no reliable taxi service (there is a part-time service, but it relies on volunteer drivers) nor public transport. There are no shops at all within walking distance. Our electricity supply is...

I've used Soudal 45P to repair a poly hive brood box that snapped in half when something fell on it. I just applied the glue, reassembled it and weighted the box to keep pressure on the joint, then trimmed off the excess glue that foamed out using a knife once it was dry. It worked very well...

Much cheaper if you buy a different brand of foaming PU glue though. James

Would have been nice to do a quick post-Christmas tour of my hives today just to check all is well, but this is how the world looked this morning: Since then it's just got worse. I reckon visibility is down to somewhere between ten and fifteen metres now. Even the tree in the foreground of...

I've used epoxy car body filler to repair dents and small holes in mine. James

Pretty much the same story here -- warm enough for the bees to be flying and I'm still seeing wasps quite regularly. James

Yeah, but it only rains by appointment in the South Hams. Here it can go on for weeks non-stop :D James

That's generally my approach. If something is liable to get wet and stay wet for any extended period (a Demaree board, for instance) then I'd certainly look to seal it. For something that's hidden under the roof I'd really not stress about it. James

Assembled a few Thorne "seconds" brood boxes at the weekend. Not totally impressed with the machining. The rebates that accept the "inner" walls (the ones that carry the frame rails) really weren't wide enough. Not by much -- only 0.5mm or so, but sufficient that it was a nuisance. This...

Nice. I do like labels that show a bit of imagination and a sense of fun. James

Yup, I use Einhell batteries and have not had a problem thus far. This is with the Compact model though, not the original. James

Oh, I'm familiar with the term, just not the origin. It was frequently used by Viz in the 80's for example and Wychwood Brewery even produced a beer called "The Dogs Bollocks", though I'm not sure if they still do after being bought out by Carlsberg Marston's who closed the brewery a year ago...

But as is not uncommon with (British?) English, we also have the phrase "going to the dogs" which means quite the opposite :D I wasn't aware that "the dog's bollocks" had a Cockney origin though. If it's rhyming slang, I have to admit that I'm at something of a loss as to what it rhymes with...

Damn. I'm intolerant of people who insist the world is flat despite all the evidence to the contrary. I'm intolerant of people who claim that evolution by natural selection isn't real, ditto. I'm intolerant of people who insist that the Earth is only six thousand years old, ditto again. I...

It would be handy :) Sadly it obviously depends on what people have left over from their normal jobs (or there are some I've seen that are faulty batches of wrap with creases in or mis-matched colours) hence some of these are going to be visible from space... James