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Dave Horrigan
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Grandad, amateur christian, professional engineer, musician, sometime photographer, aircooled VW & EV aficionado, liberal lefty. Entiendo español un poco […]

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#lettersfromhull 24/11/85

Polly has been very _bad_ recently (as usual). She never stops eating and is massive.

She also goes berserk every morning and runs up the curtains or attacks the hamster. The other day Ruth was cleaning Perkins out and Polly kept […]

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November 24, 2025 at 9:49 PM
I’ve been running a project this week for Y10 work experience, not something I’ve ever done before. This is what they came up with, designed and built from scratch from foamboard and 3D printed parts. It has a brushless generator.
May 24, 2025 at 6:59 AM
When it’s a day like today and you’re listening to Bob Harris’s Sounds of the 70s on the way home from work in your electric VW bus, waiting for trains is no problem.
April 28, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I’ve replaced the frame on our Ikea Poäng chair because the fabric on the base gave up the ghost. Interesting to note the design changes to make it cheaper to manufacture but harder to put together. All the horizontal slats used to come glued in, now you have […]

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April 5, 2025 at 6:39 PM
#lettersfromhull 31/03/85

Dear all, we are somewhere in the Peak District. The weather was OK today but is usually horrible. So far we’ve had rain, hail, snow and wind. The wind is very strong and means that you have to pedal down 1 in 10 gradients and get […]

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March 31, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I took these photos of the Humber bridge this morning. They are both in colour but have hardly any discernible colour to them.
December 26, 2024 at 7:51 PM