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When purchasing timber, it's important to check that it's not too knotty, or warped...

Or that it's the reincarnation of a World famous meme cat... ha ha...

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I see things mentioned in forums, or on How to pages, and file them away to look at later...

The Sloyd knife...

Sloyd is a word derived from the Swedish word Slöjd meaning handiwork or crafts.

Isn't that just a paring knife, like the one you'd use to cut up fruit? You ask... ha ha...

My first impression wasn't much different, to be honest....

Here we go, another tool I'll use from time to time, cluttering up a drawer in the workshop...

Those "In the know" (and those selling them) speak very highly of it.

Personally, I think I'll be fine with I've got, thanks, ha ha....

But it is interesting to know that these things exist...

It's a bit like the curved blade knives that can be used to carve out the bowls of spoons, or bowls, if your ambition stretches that far, ha ha...

There's plenty of them out there, in all shapes and sizes, and they have their following, but it doesn't necessarily mean that my life will be meaningless and empty without one...

They don't come cheap, in US$, and I don't want to do the calculation to A$... I'm afraid of how big a number that could turn out to be... ha ha....

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I'm having an "I'm old enough to remember when..." moment, ha ha...

There's a Government COVID testing facility in a suburb called Crace, which is just up the road from here...

I remember when all that Crace could boast was a large telephone exchange building, set amongst windswept sheep paddocks, ha ha...

I spent a particularly miserable Winter living in one of the new suburbs that sprang up, out that way, some years back.

Being reclaimed sheep paddocks, there were next to no established trees, so the only shelter provided from the wind's glacial blast were the tiny, thin saplings that lined the road.

It made walking down the hill to what passed for the local shops, in the evening, something of an adventure, ha ha...

I certainly learnt the value of layered clothing... ha ha...

Gee, I'm getting to sound like an old timer, now... ha ha...

"I remember Crace when people looked at you funny if you mentioned it, and you had to get a map out to show them where it was...", ha ha...

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July 9th 2020.

We must have had the best part of a month clear, then three cases were reported yesterday, and another reported today, in the ACT.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-09/act-canberra-records-another-coronvirus-case-in-gungahlin/124...

This damned virus isn't going away...

On a lighter note, I've been tempted to write "If you can read this, you're too close" across the bridge of the nose of a facemask, in reasonably small letters...

What have you got if you can't keep your sense of humour, in all of this? ha ha...

I know I say it a lot, but it's because I mean it... Stay well, people...

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Another one for the notebook...

A whittled bird shape attached to a clothes peg.

Squeeze the peg and the bird pecks at the end of it...

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