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Duct Tape, Darts and Balloons

Posted on 23, Jun

Yes, wrap your motor in Duck tape. How could I not venture to the Avon Duct Tape Festival this past weekend? Avon happens to be one of the two (there may be more) duct tape capitals of the world – the other being Sarah Palin’s home village of Wasilla. And yes, it’s kind of what [...]

Female Mechanics Calendar and the Tottenham Wrench

Posted on 22, Jan

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Three minutes away you were from having the pleasure of me videoing myself doing a naked umbaba round my back garden in the snow. But thankfully, Spurs put paid to that little escapade just as I was getting down to my underpants. They also put paid to any other thoughts of a gaggle of Dingles [...]

Yuletide Welding Caps

Posted on 24, Dec

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What do you give that special welder in your life who’s in a festive funk and has a head shaped like a balloon? Why, a Christmas welding cap, of course: Merry Christmas…

Off to SES Chicago

Posted on 10, Dec

Well I’m off up yonder to that there windy city tomorrow to partake in a Blogging for Business panel at SES Chicago. Thankfully it’s a Tinbasher case study so I theoretically should know what I’m talking about. But it’s certainly felt like a bit of a task trying to condense every single marvellous morsel of [...]

See You Shortly

Posted on 7, Aug

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Won’t be much going on round these parts for a little bit as I’m moving this weekend then coming over to Blighty for a little two week jaunt. Anyone up for a jar?

Of Beef Sticks and Pooh Sticks and Parking Tickets

Posted on 31, Jul

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These days I take lunch breaks. I’m becoming quite partial to them as well. You see, when you spend all your time staring at monitors and tapping keyboards hunched over like Richard III of the Interwebs, the odd hour or so away is a welcome diversion. I only live a stone’s throw away from work, [...]

China Olympics 2008: A Tinbasher’s Guide

Posted on 10, Jul

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Australian sheet metal fabricator, Bevan George, is off to the 2008 China Olympics – Erm…Ripper! Ah, the Olympics; the time when a whole country rallies its xenophobic tendencies while its subjects become experts/fans/screaming loons about sports that your average Joe was genuinely crap at even though it only ever amounted to the basics of chucking, [...]