• Hi all and welcome to TheWoodHaven2 brought into the 21st Century, kicking and screaming! We all have Alasdair to thank for the vast bulk of the heavy lifting to get us here, no more so than me because he's taken away a huge burden of responsibility from my shoulders and brought us to this new shiny home, with all your previous content (hopefully) still intact! Please peruse and feed back. There is still plenty to do, like changing the colour scheme, adding the banner graphic, tweaking the odd setting here and there so I have added a new thread in the 'Technical Issues, Bugs and Feature Requests' forum for you to add any issues you find, any missing settings or just anything you'd like to see added/removed from the feature set that Xenforo offers. We will get to everything over the coming weeks so please be patient, but add anything at all to the thread I mention above and we promise to get to them over the next few days/weeks/months. In the meantime, please enjoy!

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  1. marineboy

    I don't want to believe that this is true...

    My Halifax account also sends an instant notification when my credit card is used.
  2. marineboy

    Does this look like an old-style fuse box?

    I had my old Wylex fuse board replaced a couple of years ago. It’s actually more than a couple of hours work because the spark will need to test the existing wiring and produce an EICR (electrical installation condition report) and also notify the local authority. Mine took a day and a half and...
  3. marineboy

    Separating lids from boxes - how do you do yours?

    That’s exactly the method I’ve used in the past, with that cutter. Works extremely well.
  4. marineboy

    Cooking steak

    I never realised than the pink/red fluid isn’t blood, but that won’t convince my wife. 😀
  5. marineboy

    Cooking steak

    We don’t eat a great deal of steak but have it now and again as a treat. We like it medium rare, and up till now I’ve pan fried it. I’ve always found it a bit of a lottery to get the right degree of doneness despite using a Thermapen, so when I bought four nice thick (3 cm) pieces of sirloin I...
  6. marineboy

    Barn roof...

    My roofer says that storm force winds don’t blow tiles off, they suck them off. The air rushing over them creates low pressure which lifts the tiles, much as airflow over an aeroplane’s wing creates lift.
  7. marineboy

    London

    Adrian, you’re right re London prices, but we have simple tastes and London museums are free and among the best in the world. And our son’s flat faces east over the Walthamstow Wetlands and watching the sun rise from the balcony is a delight. I always bring my binoculars and there is a great...
  8. marineboy

    London

    We visit London several times a year, and stay in our son’s flat in Tottenham Hale. We are here currently, minding our son’s dog while he is holidaying in Tokyo. I was born and spent my childhood in SE London, and wouldn’t want to live here, but we love spending time here. The flat is warm...
  9. marineboy

    Apple Mac survival kit - but some points relevant to PC's maybe

    My 2009 iMac runs High Sierra and can’t be updated further. The only reason I keep it is to print photos as my excellent Canon Pro 9000 MkII needs a USB connection (no Bluetooth) and I intend to keep both until one or the other expires. However, I was getting increasingly frustrated with the...
  10. marineboy

    I want to reach out …

    And people using slightly different (but wrong) words, eg: Hone in instead of home in - closing in on something. Slither instead of sliver - a small, narrow bit of something. Less instead of fewer, eg “There were less than twenty people there”. And mispronounciation. Eg “mis-chiev-ious”...
  11. marineboy

    Price of meat.....and butcher's ethics

    Re pork crackling, we get our belly pork joints (not strips) from Lidl, and we find the quality very good. Roasting it in the oven has always been very variable, with about a 40% success rate. We have tried everything - leaving it in the fridge to dehydrate, pouring boiling water over it...
  12. marineboy

    How do you light you fire?

    My method for my Dik Guerts Ivar stove (Dutch, and excellent) - leave a layer of ash about 2 inches deep, make a channel in it front to back, place a wax/wood wool firelighter in it (Flamers from Amazon), a stick of kindling side to side, 3 sticks on top front to back, then 2 logs side to side...
  13. marineboy

    I'm the attic woodworker

    Welcome Richard. I too have a small workshop at the top of the house. I don’t make anything too big in there because there is simply not the room, and I have to be careful about banging too hard on the bench in case it dislodges the plaster in the room below! I have made a box or two - but don’t...
  14. marineboy

    Ex lurker comes clean

    Welcome from another rehabilitated lurker.
  15. marineboy

    Fish Dishes?

    Holidaying in the Cotswolds a few weeks ago we had a day out in Cardiff. First time we’d been there, and we were impressed. Saw the fish stall in the market and the produce looked excellent. I researched parking before our trip and it did look very limited and very expensive - apart from the J...
  16. marineboy

    Photo mounts

    That’s useful to know, thanks.
  17. marineboy

    Photo mounts

    I position it and clamp overnight.
  18. marineboy

    Photo mounts

    I know it says for covering existing edging only but it works fine on raw MDF
  19. marineboy

    Photo mounts

    Hi Sam, no it’s self adhesive and nice and sticky. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/111410352319 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/111410352319
  20. marineboy

    Photo mounts

    For some time I’ve been thinking of ways to display my photo prints cheaply and easily. I’ve made the odd picture frame with mat, glass etc but to be honest I find it a faff, it’s not cheap, and I’m not very good at it. I got this idea from YouTube. MDF, 12 or 18mm, edged with Hafele tape...
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