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Very good! I totally missed the word play.

No, power tools only I believe.

Toolchimp have some good offers on Hikoki at the moment: https://www.toolchimp.co.uk/flash-deals/hikoki-hot-deals

That's ace, a clean sweep.

Very neat. Does it sag at all, due to vibration? If so, maybe a bar between the middle of the light and the mudguard mount would sort it?

What about a small hand-operated blower used to clean camera lenses?
https://www.wexphotovideo.com/giottos-aa1900-rocket-air-blower-13374

Don't worry, this is a rural farming area. No neighbours.

Nothing as prosaic as that, unfortunately. Although you could say that the ground wasp stood in for the croc.

Indeed, a hack that went wrong. Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, and all that.

I call this hack "Success has its price".

Needing to get a damp bonfire going with lots of fresh cut green material, I used my heat gun. Worked brilliantly. But a few minutes of leaving it unattended led to the melting of part of the black thermoplastic housing, and my nice DeWalt heat gun now looks a bit worse for wear!

Moral of the story: get a cheap "burner" (literally) heat gun if you want to make use of this hack. Leave the shiny yellow one in your workshop.......

To cap it off, a ground wasp, whose nest was nearby, stung me on the ear.

Don't plant ivy, it kills walls and takes over. Use Virginia creeper instead. Looks lovely in autumn with red leaves, too.

You could instead consider cutting the foot board (carefully) and installing hinges so you have a flap you can lift and through which you slide storage boxes (if that's what you intend to place beneath the bed?).

DM sent for the saddle bag

Some good deals at Toolchimp at the moment, incl. Bessey clamps at about 50% off: https://www.toolchimp.co.uk/clearance

Very neat job, nice.

Some good Bosch deals here for those invested in the system, 50% off in some cases: https://www.ebay.co.uk/e/home-garden/up-to-50-off-bosch-tools?_sop=40&usecase=EVENTS

This is the most elegant solution.

Those spanner door handles are ace!

Classic! Guess the other arm would have to be modded the same way otherwise some degree of lop-sided riding is inevitable. Which is probably the least of the bodger's worries.

Cracking day for it, congratulations:-)

On the Ridgeway today, near Compton in Oxfordshire.

Yes, it has.

Sharp mudguard stays hack— a thin strip of self-amalgamating tape and then valve caps screwed on. Would be great if I could somehow get little red LED bulbs in there too ....

Unfortunately Pragmasis is closing down, a really top provider of serious security kit: https://mailchi.mp/a5133acba02a/important-pragmasis-update-13435079?e=b199b7959b

One of Putin's generals called him and said "Mr. President, we need to use just one timezone across Russia. These multiple timezones are just too difficult. Last week I sent men to Tashkent and they arrived too late. This week I flew to Novosibirsk and they told me I was too early for the meeting ".

Putin's response: "I know what you mean. I called Prigozhin's family to offer my condolences and they told me the plane had not yet taken off".