Yes, it's off our Liquidambar tree - I was getting nowhere for the theme!
weekly Boots' 52 for 2024
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Yes, it's off our Liquidambar tree - I was getting nowhere for the theme!
Thanks Bob!
Thanks Nick!
Thanks Bob! Yes, a canal boat would have helped - where are they when you need one?
Week 19 - Bent and Technique - Minimalist
This may look like just a piece of heavy gauge wire bent into a right angle - and it is. But it is also a specifically designed and fabricated (if use of that term is forgivable) to perform a task. Let me explain.
We have two cats. We have had them since they were kittens. In those two years they have found (so far) three ways to get into the service space behind and below the kitchen cupboards.
i) When they were tiny, they could squeeze through a 1" x 2" gap in the base of a corner cupboard. We then blocked that.
ii) Then they found they could jump up onto the tall cupboard and drop down the gap at the back - about 6' - into the service space. We then blocked that.
iii) Then they found that if we left the drawer below the sink open, they could jump into the drawer, jump out the back of the drawer, over the backboard and into the service space. We try not to leave that drawer open.
Great fun! Except they can't get out of the service space. They just mew pitifully.
We then initiate Operation De-plinth, for which this tool is designed, to pull the plinth away and release the cat(s) - when they eventually decide to come out, obviously.
This may look like just a piece of heavy gauge wire bent into a right angle - and it is. But it is also a specifically designed and fabricated (if use of that term is forgivable) to perform a task. Let me explain.
We have two cats. We have had them since they were kittens. In those two years they have found (so far) three ways to get into the service space behind and below the kitchen cupboards.
i) When they were tiny, they could squeeze through a 1" x 2" gap in the base of a corner cupboard. We then blocked that.
ii) Then they found they could jump up onto the tall cupboard and drop down the gap at the back - about 6' - into the service space. We then blocked that.
iii) Then they found that if we left the drawer below the sink open, they could jump into the drawer, jump out the back of the drawer, over the backboard and into the service space. We try not to leave that drawer open.
Great fun! Except they can't get out of the service space. They just mew pitifully.
We then initiate Operation De-plinth, for which this tool is designed, to pull the plinth away and release the cat(s) - when they eventually decide to come out, obviously.
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Thanks Simon!