- entry 2025/01/02

The Brexit Bonus

All the bits.

So I thought I'd make it. Why not? Colouring it in wasn't too hard. I used felt tip, which bled slightly into the surrounding wood and colours. This was entirely intentional, part of the æsthetic.

Carefully coloured.

The fiddly part was sorting out the chimes, threading the dinky little beads and such. I didn't do it like the instructions said as there was no way the thread was going to pass through the beads doubled up.

This part was a pain in the arse.

Here is a slightly edited picture of the finished wind chime hanging up in the kitchen. It's a unicorn, with a union flag. This, right here, is the Brexit Bonus. I've found it, at long last! ☺

The end result.

This is getting silly

In what reality is 640×480 considered "HD"?

The mower problem

This doesn't look good.

The thing that's dangling - there's this on the one side but nothing on the other side. That'll be why, the last time the engine was running, it was shaking violently.

I'm thinking if I can break this out (or off) with a screwdriver, then with a little bit of luck the flywheel will spin in balance rather than how it was before. Granted, there's a bunch of things that need done, wonky wheels and such, but if the engine can at least run smoothly then I might get a little more life out of Marte yet.
The downside is the generator is kaput, but then, it is right now so it's only making a broken thing slightly more broken.

The weather is broken

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Zerosquare, 2nd January 2025, 21:01

How do those chimes sound? Can they play the classic Westminster melody? :p

A tree-dwelling mammal, 4th January 2025, 23:21

Rick - when you're fixing the mower, remember to disconnect the HT lead from the spark plug. I'd like to think you retain all 10 digits - it's far easier to type that way, and also if you're still planning to learn to play your keyboard (rather than just programming it) then having a full compliment of digits is highly desirable!

Rick, 4th January 2025, 23:33

Don't worry. To make it easier to turn, I loosen the spark plug. So no HT and no compression and no fuel. She's not going anywhere like that.

Rick, 4th January 2025, 23:35

Oh, and the chimes are exactly what you'd expect from a kit like that -somewhere between a clink and a dink, but not in the slightest bit actually musical...

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