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Curmudgeons' Corner 6 - Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we diet šŸµ

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  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    I found another cracked pane of glass on the greenhouse. Now it's cracked I can see the problem though as the frame must have been missing a seal or something that allowed the glass to flex too much. Luckily it's holding in place for now.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Can you duct tape it short term?

    Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    I probably will but if this wind hasn't shifted it then it's probably safe enough. Plus I used the last of the duct tape fixing the dishwasher yesterday...
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I knew I shouldā€™ve bought shares in it šŸ˜‰Ā 

    Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Duct tape, WD40 and baling twine. That's 50% of my tools right there :#
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited February 2020
    Baling twine ā¤ļø Ā ... the things I made and/or fixed with that when I was a a child ... and Iā€™m talking the proper sisal stuff, not the polypropylene.Ā 

    Ā And woe betide anyone Pa caught cutting it off the hay or straw bales anywhere other than right next to the knot, so you had Ā a good length to be re-used.Ā 

    Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    I've got a big drum of the sisal stuff that I got off my dad. It's probably older (and definitely hairier) than me.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    I still have a reel of cotton-covered copper wire "salvaged" by my grandad during the war from somewhere or other.Ā  It's very useful... I'll have to bequeath it to someone in my will, I think, together with my old 2nd-hand lino knife, with a curved blade, which is just the job for opening compost bags.Ā Ā  :)

    Sorry, not very curmudgeonly...Ā Ā  :)
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Ā This stuff works. I'veĀ  used it on the front doorĀ  and a freezerĀ  drawerĀ 


    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I use that On GH glass, it lasts quite a few years.Ā 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.Ā 

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