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I've absent mindedly spooned coffee into the kettle rather than my cup. I don't suppose it matters. It's all I ever use the kettle for anyway.

I've trundled over to the smallholding project this afternoon. I had to go slowly because the fog was so thick, but once I climbed up into the Cambrian mountains I was above the clouds: Just getting things out of the car in that picture. It was so sunny up above the fog line that my solar panels...

Well, stick a sign up in the front garden and invite passsers-by in for a while-you-wait ear evacuation. Record the results and put them on Youtube. Those ear clearance videos seem to be very popular. Nice little retirement earner.

Yes, there's an awful lot of junk electronics around. It's like being in Bladerunner. I see the Chinese government's efforts to prevent China becoming a giant electronic waste dump have yet to have any noticeable effect. There's a thriving global economy in shifting e-waste. I really enjoyed...

I attempted to charge a rechargeable torch/inspection light yesterday and it melted the USB cable. I kept smelling a strange smell yesterday and looked all over to see what it was, but didn't imagine it would be a USB charger. Xylia was soaking her feet so I thought it was some sort of additive...

Yes, that's what it made me think of too. Many moons ago back in the 1990s I remember sitting in an Indian restaurant in Birmingham during a torrential shower of rain in which the road turned into a river. Then a fire engine turned up at the pub opposite. Surely it can't be on fire in all this...

Dunno if I'd fancy eating a whole tub of cottage cheese on its own. It's OK on a baked potato, for example. Also, if it's 'natural' it probably won't have any added salt so will be about as appetising as eating the lumps in sour milk.

As CY is often used as an abbreviation for Cyprus, could it be a Black Rhino brand? Seeing as that's where they come from. The shield shape is like the Cyprus coat of arms too.

I replaced fuel lines on mine but this was several years ago so I don't remember exactly what I did. However, I remember they came rather like yours, with the clips in a separate bag. I don't remember it beign a major problem - I just pushed them together in the same orientation and using the...

Well, it's possible that it's an ECU fault, but my TD5 has a momentary hesitation on reverting to tickover after haivng been revved. This has persisted over several different ECUs I've run in it. I just assumed this was something to do with the way they were programmed. It doesn't seem to affect...

Also, springs tend to 'sink' over the years so when you put new ones on it looks higher. Last time I put new springs on mine it looked so much higher that I went and got the packaging out of the bin to see if I'd been sent 2" lift ones by mistake. No, sure enough they were 'standard'; just not...

Yes, that's always been an attractive feature of Apple products. The straight-out-of-the-box facilities for playing with pictures, music and online communications have always been ahead of what you get with PCs. They've also put a lot of effort into their screens and even their packaging.

Jeff Bezos has just been to the door and dropped me off a new keyboard . I thought I might as well get a new one to match all my other new stuff seeing as the letters and numbers are wearing off my old one so typing is a tittle hit and miss.

Xylia's the Apple enthusiast in our household. Her little workstation in the front room is decorated with iPads, iPhones and a massive all-in-one affair with retina screen. I've never got on well with Apple devices myself. I'm incapable of intuiting the intuitive interface and making them do...

I've just renewed a lot of my stuff over the last few days. It started with a desire for a new monitor. I had been using a cheap flat screen TV for the last couple of years, because I got it to replace a broken one and I needed something that was big, cheap and available via next day delivery...

I generally like to spend Christmas underneath the Land Rover, but I haven't really got any jobs to do on it just now. I took the transfer box apart for a gear and bearing check and new seals a few weeks ago, prior to its MOT, so that should be OK for a while now. I have bought a new bush kit...

Well, if you're going to have to modify the space where the radiator goes to suit a TD5's radiator and intercooler sooner or later, you might as well do it now. Christmas is the ideal time for extended Land Rover repairs or modifications - dull days and freezing rain. Who could resist the...

Yes, I got an extended sump when I was running the overdrive unit, as that tends to warm the oil up a good deal. Indeed, I'd made myself an oil cooler with a separate radiator and a thermostatically switched pump, which kept the temperatures down to something sensible for long motorway runs in...

a quick update - I seem to have cured the transfer box oil leak. I did around 300 miles over the weekend; over to Wales, plus a few errands whilst there, and back to the East Midlands and the oil level hasn't gone down. No drips on the underside. That should be OK for a few more years now I hope.