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Busy week on projects

By Lester Caine
Sunday 16 of March, 2025
Posted to Lester's New Blog
Jigsaws-OnWall
Finally got around to replacing the Xmas jigsaws with something more appropriate in spring. So I had to complete two new 1000 piece jigsaws. The Christmas ones took several days to complete, but having got stuck in, the new railway based ones were finished in two and a half days. Would have been even quicker if I hadn't had an accident trying to turn the first one ov…

Need to make a start

By Lester Caine
Tuesday 11 of March, 2025
Posted to Doll's House Diary

I have been procrastinating long enough and need to make a start on this before the parts start to become a problem. There are a number of things on the todo list, but none of them are real reasons for at least getting on with some of the basic steps that will not change. I've not decided on some of the fine details, and I also still can't decide if the approach that others have taken in finishing inside walls prior to their assembly into a whole is the right way to go, but I feel whi…

Sunday 09 of March, 2025

By Lester Caine
Sunday 09 of March, 2025
Posted to Hachette Partswork Dalek
OK, had a session doing the first 6 parts of this project. Took a couple of hours in all, but some of that time was sorting out pictures and finding tools, although a little forward reading would have helped there. The gallery of images has been uploaded, and that in itself was helped by some development work in the new Plasma6 desktop. I actually updated the exif data on the pictures to include the…

Making a little progress

By Lester Caine
Saturday 01 of March, 2025
Posted to Doll's House Diary

But adding more items to put on the bitweaver bugs list. I had taken a couple of days to photograph all the accessories that I've already got in stock, and then tidied all the images so they had titles rather than the camera id, and separated them into different folders ready to upload. One simply zips up the set of files and folders and bitweaver creates new galleries for each folder. I forgot that it's too clever and uses the image metadata for the name ... which is the camera name…

Friday 28 of February, 2025

By Lester Caine
Friday 28 of February, 2025
Posted to Hachette Partswork Dalek

Dalek-Size
I started collecting these magazines back in January, getting the first issue from the local W.H.Smiths and starting a subscription at Hachette Works a couple of weeks later.

Have to have a first post

By Lester Caine
Friday 28 of February, 2025
Posted to Doll's House Diary

This is just a space hanger at the moment ... need to start pulling things together ...

Also spotted that the list of posts is not allowing you to page back to earlier ones! Cracked that one ...

The calender display of content that other blog software provides is on the TODO list for bitweaver as well.

How I hate computers

By Lester Caine
Sunday 19 of January, 2025
Posted to Lester's New Blog
Lost work yet again without any obvious reason!

Projects to start on

By Lester Caine
Friday 17 of January, 2025
Posted to Lester's New Blog
Where to spend time this year

Printer all sorted

By Lester Caine
Thursday 21 of November, 2024
Posted to Lester's New Blog

Engineer rolled up with a pile of boxes and having confirmed that the problem was with the upper scanner proceeded to swap the top section of the printer with a new one. Half an hour later all is sorted and we are getting clean scans again. Now to get stuck into the last couple of hundred Model Engineer magazines now that I only need to run them through once.

Have been looking online to see what other volumes of the magazine are available pre-1950 and there have been a few batches t…

Waiting is the norm in the UK today?

By Lester Caine
Sunday 17 of November, 2024
Posted to Lester's New Blog
Still waiting for Brother