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I always wondered how difficult quilting is. I've tried veneering a chessboard pattern and that needed to be so precise that it was ridiculous. I always felt quilting should be the same - but have never tried. In retrospect, I'm beginning to be glad I've never tried! Your initial freehand results lo...

:lol: Much easier material to work with, metal. At work we had a machinist who hated wood. His complaint: You couldn't weld a patch on, if you got it wrong, and then carry on as if nothing happened. There was another old designer who always asked 'Do you want it from metal or aluminium?'. Err. Alumi...

frolicsome

[...and tricksy - a saying I've known for as long as I can remember while having no idea where it comes from]

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Richard

Most engines are simple.
It's just the details that make them difficult.

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Richard

I honestly don't know. The lion didn't seem hugely domesticated from the way one of the two kept tapping it on the nose with a stick. Happened too often for me to have felt comfortable in that situation.

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Richard.

Triumvirate

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Richard

Seriously overgrown Maine Coon: https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/1cku32g/seriously/ Oh, sorry, you might not be able to see it. Not sure why. Spoiler: it's a full grown pet male lion. In someone's living room. So.. try this: https://cheezburger.com/9912939520/quick-quick-slow Regards, Richard

Chord

Golf.

Salts

(Never quite understood what they are)

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Richard

Drip [Some, but not all, of the 'Wild Garlic' in the clumps where it's growing in our garden has green flashes on the petals, so could be 'Three Cornered Leek'. But the rest is certainly Wild Garlic. Learn something every day. Apparently Three cornered Leek is considered 'invasive' in the UK. Might ...

[Wild] Garlic

(We have some growing next to our snowflake flowers at the moment. It really shouldn't be happening as the Garlic likes much damper conditions than the Snowflakes.)

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Richard

I do understand what you're saying, but.. It's incredibly useful having a base to drop into when visiting my dad instead of having to book hotel rooms every 6-8 weeks. My gut reaction is that if we could rent out most of it, and keep the extension (which is almost a granny flat except no cooking fac...

Election Campaign

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Richard

Saw my brother for the first time in 32 years when I went to see my dad over the weekend. My brother was exactly as he was, and totally different at the same time. He's bigger than I remembered, and now is covered in body builder's muscle and a bodybuilder's tan. His taste in clothes has deteriorate...

Steam.Jo I wish you all the best with it. We gave up processing our own fleeces as they were way too much like hard work!

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Richard.

I must admit I'm not hugely happy I'm in the photo, but ...Squeaky...

Ah well, I'm far from the first to show their photo on the forum. At least I don't look much like the convict who got their photo on my driving license instead of me .

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Richard

Sheep. Yes, they can get utterly caked in muck. I will confess I viewed my mum's sheep as the most willfully stupid creatures on the planet. One or two could get through any fence on the farm, but when the rest of the flock didn't follow, they wanted to get back. And could they ever get back in the ...

Surround

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Richard

Not sure I like doing this as it's my first identifiable photo on the net, but I thought Squeaky was funny yesterday evening. I had just prevented him from grabbing Orianna's supper, and she snapped this photo while he was feeling persecuted. I was a little concerned he might struggle as he saw 'his...