Stuff Michael Meeks is doing
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Prolongued attempts to put up shelves, discovered that
the B&Q spring-loaded plaster / wall fixings were utterly
inadequately tapped and could be trivially pulled apart in the
hand.
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Into Harrogate, to B&Q to get them refunded - ever
wondered why B&Q have two help/refund queues for four
checkout queues ?
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Bought some 'heavy duty' B&Q splay plasterboard
fixings instead. Returned home, amazed to discover our repeat
naivety - B&Q fixings again utterly inadequate, not
only (apparently) a cheap Chinese copy of a working splay fixing,
but multiple failure modes and no success: much more torque
required to splay the fixing, than can be provided by any
plasterboard, having held the front steady, the fixing twisted
itself around the bolt, a third failure-type was the end
thread failing, not a single fixing worked.
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Caught up with the babes and wandered through Knaesborough
looking for them, admired the castle, substantial viaduct over the
river etc.
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LibreOffice ESC call in the afternoon. Out to Travis
Perkins instead - bought some Rawlplug fixings that 'actually
work (TM)' - and were significantly cheaper.
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Finally got the shelves up, parents fell asleep in front
of ;the life of plants' in the evening.
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created by me and (unless obviously labelled otherwise) are licensed under
the public domain, and/or if that doesn't float your boat a CC0
license. I encourage linking back (of course) to help people decide for
themselves, in context, in the battle for ideas, and I love fixes /
improvements / corrections by private mail.
In case it's not painfully obvious: the reflections reflected here are my
own; mine, all mine ! and don't reflect the views of Collabora, SUSE,
Novell, The Document Foundation, Spaghetti Hurlers (International),
or anyone else.
It's also important to realise that I'm not in on the Swedish Conspiracy.
Occasionally people ask for formal photos for conferences
or fun.
Michael Meeks (michael.meeks@collabora.com)
