The Age Of Lovage

It's lovage time again soon

We Grew Evil Tomatoes

Less evil this year for some reason

Bigger Boxes

Here's a little thing that popped up on eBay recently.
Does it look a little dangerous..?
Maybe...
Does it make a noise..?
Sure does...
Does it emit smoke..?
Only if you poke it with a wet stick...

Little Boxes

I built a nice little case for my Tascam out of an old teabag tin to stop processor noise leaking into my VLF Receiver. It's held in place using the tripod mount, and there are small ports on the sides for USB & headphone connections

Get A Grip

I finally figured out an elegant solution to lazy bat detecting. Now I don't need to stand at the window all night like a loon.

A Hoarder Vindicated

I needed a new tripod spreader for my telescope and it turned out that an old 10.5" NAB reel was just the ticket after adding only three extra holes. The orange wingnuts came from an old power tool...

Don't Panic

I know where mine is...

Lost

Somewhere in this 35 litre tub of apple tree chippings are two very tiny but rather important pieces of plastic...   ...they hold the shredder together. Fortunately, back in my youth I was a grand master at Lego diving, so the shredder is happy again, for now.

Albatross...

...or Polo Stones as they're known round here

Tiki Coffee Table

I was supposed to be repotting herbs and sowing beetroot, but this kind of happened instead...

Mui Phui (Part Tui)

Here's another one
I use it to control things

Little Victories

Hot Tub Freddie...

...is back !

Modulation Is Our Vocation

I just finished putting together this case of random modulation sources. It contains four chaos oscillators, two slope detectors, a dual sample & hold, but not one LFO

We Grow Cosmic Tomatoes

It's a sign...

Garlic Dread

I wasn't looking forward to pulling this Printanor garlic as while the weather currently is perfect, my garlic generally seems to rot or get blight. Not this year, I seem to have a good crop and the scapes will freeze quite nicely

That's Shallot

I've harvested the remaining shallots this week. These Longor shallots look pretty good this year and they keep really well. They'll dry for a couple of days before I clean them again and then leave them to cure in the sun for a few weeks. After that they'll be ready to string up and store in a cool dry place

You're So Square

While it was snowing today, I took the opportunity to put together a completely passive sine wave to square wave converter. Why do I need one of these ?

Because this is where distortion lives...

The Horror...

Not tomatoes this time but HTML. I finally edited down and posted the entire Un! back catalogue. You can find it here

This Could Be The Start Of A Beautiful Relationship

I found this Variera cutlery box in Ikea and realised it was damn close to fitting 5U panels, so I bought one. It has a sloping profile so you can recess the panels to get an exact fit. The width is just over 7U so it should make a little satellite case with the minimum of fuss. If it works this will be case number 23 - watch this space...