As happens every year, Blue Opal’s oil needed to be changed. The club doesn’t have the vacuum pump any more (a replacement is coming), but I was able to borrow a small brass pump (archive) that did the trick. Very
Oil change
A foggy day in Dun Laoghaire
Sunday was a bright sunny day a few hundred metres from the shore, but the shoreline was swathed in a bank of fog that appeared to stretch from Dalkey to Howth. While walking past People’s Park, I turned around and
Facebook export – Bits to Fix: 2012/2013
Photos exported from Aslana’s Facebook page.
Colour-cycling a Christmas Star
A few years ago, at a Christmas market in Germany, I bought myself two pack-flat cardboard stars. They’re meant to use a specific light fitting, but in 2019 I bodged them on top of some simple bedside lamps from Woodies,
Eir F3000 (F@st 5366) – bridge mode
After my adventures in getting the IP address of the router to change, I discovered that the unit won’t keep DHCP disabled. You can turn it off (since I wanted to do DHCP from the Pi-hole), but if you reboot
Boiler replaced
The new boiler is in – a Worcester Bosch Ri. Guy showed up at 0810, and worked through to about 1400. Network cable was piped in properly this time (instead of my hack), new flue (plastic instead of metal) has