It’s been just over three years since I built my pallet garden. Since then it has been relocated to a new address (not a fun exercise!) and I’ve had to replace a couple of plants, but in general it lasted quite well. Recently, however, it has started looking a bit […]
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The theme for my work Christmas party this year was jungle. Excited by the possibilities this opened for costumes, we started brainstorming and searching the internet. We stumbled across a photo of someone dressed in feathers and decided a parrot costume would be fun. Searching for parrot costumes we found […]
At the end of last year I saw some vertical gardens on Pinterest made from old pallets. The idea appealed to me, and I decided to try making my own. Fortunately there was a spare pallet on the job site where my brother was working, so he brought it home […]
I was given a Scratch Map for my birthday. The idea is you keep track of the countries you’ve visited by scratching them off to uncover the colourful map below. The dilemma I faced was how to hang it on the wall. I could have blue-tacked it to the wall, but […]
At work earlier this week, I was putting together an Excel spreadsheet and wanted to include a dropdown of values in some of the columns. I knew this could be achieved using Data Validation, but I wanted something that was going to be easy to maintain as the number of […]
A couple of months ago I rooted my HTC Desire and installed Cyanogen Mod 7 (CM7). The process was a bit fiddly as I worked my way through various guides and a couple of discussions on the CM7 IRC channel, but I got there. Now, three months later I’m doing […]