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  @enriquericos Depends if you like sob stories. "It belonged to my dear departed dad that we all loved, then we threw it in a damp garden shed for 30 years". If you're looking for repair techniques and info there's precious little of that.

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  Repair Cafe starts in two hours. Guess I better get out of bed. Four repaired clocks to return. I really must stop bringing work home.

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  Wow, went to clean my teeth and looking out the window a buzzard was perched on the corner of the patio just twenty feet away. Just looked at me and in no kinda hurry flew away. They are big birds when seen against something to give you scale.

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  Oops forgot to prep for tomorrows repair cafe. As a reminder based on tonight's "what's coming" email, need mains lamp components, quartz clock drives, random Singer sewing machine parts plus test material and cotton, a random shredder switch and Aspen 2 fuel (two stroke). Oh and whatever it takes to fix a vacuum cleaner. Should be an interesting Sunday. Of course that's only the pre-booked.

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  Anyone have any idea how long gov.uk scheduled maintenance is likely to take. It's been three days so far.

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  @cazabon Welcome to the world of #fixing things. For me it started as "well I I've fixed a few of my own things", to "I once fixed my grandfather's clock" to "you know about clocks", to "you're the clock man". Learned things and done things I wouldn't have dreamed of a few years ago. Still learning which is what I like.

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  @cstross@wandering.shop To think that NASA is only 3 days away from being exactly where they were 17th October 1968. I'm just old enough to remember the Apollo 8 launch which was still a couple of months away at that time. Had my Airfix Saturn V model ready for dismantling as the launch progressed.