Making steady progress

It’s a fair bet anyone reading this has moved house/workshop a time or two. You know the drill – stuff is packed in boxes, and what’s in the box is written on the outside in marker pen so there’s some idea of what’s where… at least, that’s the theory.

For some reason, though, stuff never seems to be in the box we thought it was in. So for the past few months, I’ve been racking my memory cells for a few bits which I knew I packed. Boxes of bits have been sorted through several times, then rechecked, much head scratching has taken place too, as has ignoring the still taped up box with ‘sideboard contents, mixing bowls, large utensils’ written on it. I really should have known… so inside that box was the rear number plate for my 650cc Triumph, three carburettors, a rear mudguard stay from a unit 650, some nice blue fork gators, plus a box of wooden chisel handles.

As an exercise in using up what I have rather than flinging a wodge of