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Today I bodged a repair to the netting on the top of our fruit cage.

It involved new plastic netting and a lt of cable ties!

The fruit cage is a bodge anyway, it was built 11 years ago by welding a frame from old scaffolding tubing, so it is "robust"!
The plastic netting is ageing, it really needs replacing, but that will have to wait for the autumn.
I resent sharing our raspberries with the local pigeons, hence the cage.

Thanks for the kind comments folks. Peter well done on the fruit cage & on the jokes you posted.

Sun's out so I got the toolkit out and did something constructive...

Very nice. I have so Wiess bier chilling in the fridge. I must find some Dunkel Heife Weiss for the summer.
Abbot was back in stock in Tescos & I plan a BBQ on Thurs & Friday.
Happy days.

A classic effort today by yours truly.

Visiting the shed I saw some tools in need of TLC.
I decided to paint up the heads and treat the handles of my lump hammer and my Dad's sledge hammer & pick.
A quick bit of rust removal etc with wire brushing and then epoxy paint on the bare metal. with even the sledge hammer faces in silver versus the head body in black. Good as new but the wood needed something.

Having tidied the garage to within an inch of it's life then I knew for once where the linseed oil was so I could treat the wood.

A word of advice folks. If you bought the linseed oil in c 1997 for your son's cricket bats and it was from Ronseal in a nice plastic bottle with a child proof screw cap than take care.

When you try to open it the screw cap will stay stuck and so as you then twist the cap the bottle will neatly split open covering you, the work bench and the garage floor you recently hoovered and mopped in a nice layer of oil.
If in addition if you were wearing the Birkenstock slippers you should only use in doors you can significantly improve the home Defcon level & get some advice the neighbours can hear

Oh how we laughed.
But my workbench has treated wood & my hand are soft.

To quote Terry Wogan "Run John run".

John,

I can visualise the slowly evolving disaster as you twisted that bit harder and the bottle split, leaving you unable to stop the deluge!
As you say, the upside is that your bench is nice and shiny and your hands soft and aromatic.

Nothing organic should be in a plastic bottle for more than 3 to 5 years. Glass is best!!

I am with you on that Peter. The remnants now reside in a used Pataks Aubergine Pickle jar
A bit more advice. If your bench has a drawer beneath it full of those valuable rescued screws, nuts etc then it is preferable not to leave it slightly open. though the items now won't rust.

John ..... if it keeps Patak's pickle safely contained it should be good for just about anything this side of Hydroflouric Acid

K

Agreed. though since I got anosmia I sadly can't really taste the pickle. My sense of smell & taste is coming back but slowly. I could only vaguely smell the linseed oil for example.

The plastic cap on my insanity sauce split on first use, indeed some chilli sauces come with glass stoppers because of this issue.

I used some self amalgamating tape to hold it together, it too has deformed.

It makes you question why we eat such things!