As is usually the way, after seeing this post I saw one of these on the road this morning.Bit of a 'spensive week:
4. Not sure if it counts as a full purchase (yet), but put the order in (and a hefty deposit) on the new car:
Images of items I have purchased (except trainers [no feet pics])
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We thought similar. Currently have a hybrid S-Max and previous two cars were the Galaxy (really miss the 240bhp Ecoboost!). There's so much more leg room for the rear passengers; my 13 year old son is nearly 6ft, so he'll appreciate it.
We test drove the top of the range demonstrator and my wife actually found it easier to drive and park than the S-Max. You're sat a lot higher and the Santa Fe doesn't have the stupid B pillar that really interferes with your view in the S-Max.
It's a lot of money, but we've had a pretty tough year with family bereavement and being told I can't get travel insurance to visit her family in Canada (I'm a Contaminated Blood survivor), so we said Eff-it and decided to spoil ourselves. We're going to meet the Canada lot in Mexico next year, at the hotel we stayed in for our honeymoon (which is costing almost as much as the car).
I know it's daft spending so much on a depreciating asset, but 90% of my compensation is secure/invested while we figure out what we want to do with the house, and whether we want to stay in the UK (whilst I can't travel as a tourist to Canada, my health shouldn't bar me from emigrating).
Blimey he's a tall lad then
ohhh no that's a pain that you can't get to go Canada but it will be just a nice to see them all in Mexico... It's not Daft spending your money on something you want bud you do you and enjoy life while you can!!
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A travel glass... a Travel Glass... a TRAVEL GLASS...
I never knew my life was so empty..
I now have one goal... and I think we all know what it is..
Trying a low profile keyboard, it THOCK like nothing else out of the box, I am impressed. Great acccessories too, coiled cable, USB-C to USB-A adaptor, some spare keycaps including this copper one and a very posh keycap and switch remover.
WOW you even have a key with a huge X to link straight to your favourite porn site
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Lost the will to live after screwing and bolting these together. Doubt they will survive longer than wood up here.
Time will tell.
Yes I know they are wonky
Felt a bid stupid trying to get them perfect as the ground moves so much here seasonally.
Time will tell.
Yes I know they are wonky
Felt a bid stupid trying to get them perfect as the ground moves so much here seasonally.
Lost the will to live after screwing and bolting these together. Doubt they will survive longer than wood up here.
Time will tell.
Yes I know they are wonky
Felt a bid stupid trying to get them perfect as the ground moves so much here seasonally.
That's a fair bit of work.
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New laser cutter/engraver, a Sculpfun SF-A9 40W bought from Aliexpress. Took a month to get here and I was getting worried at one point as it came via multiple transit points, last one being the Netherlands, and tracking the shipment was difficult. However, arrive it did - and I didn't pay any taxes like I expected so final price was less than half what you normally pay here. It's a well made machine and cutting at 40W produces clouds of smoke which meant I had to improve my ventilated enclosure to ensure it was all vented outside. The machine was actually 2" longer than I expected which made life awkward because I had to extend the shelf.
If you dont mind, upload some pics of this, ive been eyeing them up.
Going to be a while before fitting and have fired them up to do some checking and tbh for the price they are pretty decent.
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Was sent out for some of Dunelm's finest after work Friday... Had some friends over today. Already feel I've had my money's worth, the recliners are so comfortable!
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That looks like a hell of a lot of work. The ground is the ground when it comes to functional/productive gardening.Lost the will to live after screwing and bolting these together. Doubt they will survive longer than wood up here.
Time will tell.
Yes I know they are wonky
Felt a bid stupid trying to get them perfect as the ground moves so much here seasonally.
New laser cutter/engraver, a Sculpfun SF-A9 40W bought from Aliexpress. Took a month to get here and I was getting worried at one point as it came via multiple transit points, last one being the Netherlands, and tracking the shipment was difficult. However, arrive it did - and I didn't pay any taxes like I expected so final price was less than half what you normally pay here. It's a well made machine and cutting at 40W produces clouds of smoke which meant I had to improve my ventilated enclosure to ensure it was all vented outside. The machine was actually 2" longer than I expected which made life awkward because I had to extend the shelf.
Very cool, what do you make with it?
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Toys, boxes, tool racks, bottle holders, engraving photos - and recently trying my hand at wood inlays (marquetry sort of thing). This 40W will engrave steel (but not aluminium), and I have a rotary attachment I haven't set up yet intended for glasses, anodised/painted/stainless steel water bottles, and more stuff than I can think of just now. Does a good job of cutting dark acrylic (anything but clear acrylic which it won't touch) and have made lots of instrument cases for Raspberry Pi's and home-made geiger counters. Your imagination is the limit really.
The wood inlays are fascinating, you adjust speed/power to cut a pocket with a depth to match the thickness of the veneer you want to use (it just vapourises the wood) then cut a matching pattern out of the veneer. The veneer is stuck down onto a piece of sticky-back aluminium foil so only the inlay gets left and everything else disappears. Then you put glue in the pocket and press the inlay (which stays attached to the foil) down into the pocket, clamp until the glue sets. Peel off the foil layer and sand the result to produce a very detailed image a standard method would have taken weeks/months to produce (by a skilled person). I'm using AI to get a pattern for the inlay - upload a photo (say, of your dog for e.g.,) and ChatGPT will produce something suitable.. with a bit of encouragement.
This is an example, I'm starting with a simple pattern here but they can be much more complex/detailed with practice and when you get your laser settings dialed in. You don't need 40W of power for this as the veneer is very thin but for thicker inlays (3mm and deeper) then more power definitely speeds things up.
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Processed pattern:
Further processing often needed to get the desired result:
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Does this count? Not a bad red, quite smooth.
€9.99
I used to work with a bloke called Scheiblhofer and he was a miserable sod. The wine is nicer.
Excuse the receptacle, it's my travel glass.
Love the travel glass.
My wife’s actually been threatening to start carrying cutlery in her bag because she’s weird and doesn’t like a lot of restaurant cutlery!
I got a bit of a bargain recently, a b-stock mobile router for when I'm out and about and abroad - the D-Link DWR-2101 - and paired with a 100Gb sim from Mozillion for £14pm.
It's an great bit of kit - it's 5G while my current mobile isn't and was cheaper than changing my phone that I don't want to do yet. Has a wired gigabit ethernet port and can provide internet failover for the home too.
It's an great bit of kit - it's 5G while my current mobile isn't and was cheaper than changing my phone that I don't want to do yet. Has a wired gigabit ethernet port and can provide internet failover for the home too.