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FYI! Last read at 03:47 on 2025/03/07.

The Brexit Bonus

As part of my "not wasting time with random websites", I found something "arty-crafty" that mom bought.
A do-it-yourself unicorn wind chime kit
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.

A do-it-yourself unicorn wind chime kit
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.

A do-it-yourself unicorn wind chime kit
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! ☺

A do-it-yourself unicorn wind chime kit
The end result.

 

This is getting silly

This is a little game console thing on Amazon. It...speaks for itself really.

Blatant balls here
In what reality is 640×480 considered "HD"?

 

The mower problem

I set the camera to look under the flywheel of Marte, the big mower. Turning the flywheel, I saw this underneath.
What's under the flywheel?
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

So, yesterday, to get the temperature in the living room up a little, I had the windows open, as it was around 12°C outside, and that's a perfectly good excuse for abusing the comma in this ridiculous run-on sentence, however, I have just looked at the forecast for tomorrow, they say it'll be not only freezing but quite possibly snowing as well, now I know that snow in January in the northern hemisphere isn't exactly an anomaly but the weather right now is bouncing like a yoyo, one of those sparkly ones that you could buy in the eighties, if you're as old as me and remember that sort of thing, the end. ☺

 

 

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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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