A picture of my hole
I went down to the village yesterday.
Rather strangely there was no parking anywhere. All my favourite spots were taken and that even includes my favourite double yellow No Parking spots. I was forced, with great reluctance to park in the car park [which was also nearly full] and walk back to the shops. I haven’t a clue where everyone was as the village was almost deserted. Weird..
It was a dual purpose visit. The most important being a quest to stock up with tobacco and fags. One must have priorities in life and these are at the top of the list.
The second reason was to try out a new gizmo what I purchased a while back in the local hardware. The latter is a tiny shop and my ambition is to discover something they don’t stock. So far I have been singularly unsuccessful.
The gizmo is a simple little thing. It’s a yoke to hold my phone in view while on the road. It comes in two parts. There is a thingummyjig that clamps into a vent on the dashboard and has a magnet. The other part is a steel disk which has to be stuck to the back of the phone.
As soon as I unpacked this little toy I realised I had a small problem. I have a case for my phone which is a sort of imitation leather and is quite thick. It protects the phone in case I drop it. It also isn’t so slidey so I’m less likely to drop it in the first place. It also stops my hand brushing off the fingerprint reader. I had grown tired of it whining that I had tried too many unsuccessful attempts and please enter the passwords, just because some other part of my hand had brushed the reader.
So there was my problem. Where would I stick the steel disk? If I stuck it to the back of the phone I would have to ditch the case in case the latter weakened the magnetic field. If I stuck it onto the case it might be a tad unstable. The roads around here would try even the strongest magnetic field and I didn’t want my phone to crash onto the floor with every pothole.
I solved it. I cut a hole in the case and stuck the disk to the phone inside.
It’s a little rough and ready as cutting it wasn’t easy even which my sharpest knife.
So yesterday was its first trial run. It works brilliantly. Rock solid. Even over the potholes.
I’m kinda chuffed.
There ya go.
Necessity is the mother of invention, or so I’m told. It seems however that Many inventions require a bit of engineering by the end user.
I know just the sort of place. I reckon that one of the signs of a good hardware store is where they stock two different kinds of mole trap.
(the moles might not agree)
I have never heard mention of moles in this area so I wouldn’t expect there are many mole-traps on sale. I try to be reasonable in my requests [no flowers, vegetables, fruit or meat] but so far they have provided me with cigarette lighters, lighter gas, flints, gifts, ornaments, toys, my hat, kitchen implements, various obscure batteries and a few other items. All those from a shop not much bigger than a small bedroom.