David de Groot 𓆉 @dadegroot@mastodon.social

🎵 Sento il tamburi sonoro stasera. 🎶

Storm raging outside while these pizzas were cooking. I was desperately hoping the power would not go out, and as luck would have it, it didn’t. 😃

#food #pizza

Mostly got the steel bit in the pein forge welded in on the third attempt after changing tack from a face weld to an insert. Still needs some refinement but I was done in by then.

#blacksmith #hammer

Forge blower manifold in use. Works perfectly. Needed to use a heat gun to make a minor adjustment to the size of the square end as the metal tubing it goes on wasn’t exactly to size.

#3dprinting #blacksmith

Finished the brackets today. When they're cool, I'll give them a wipe down and then hunt around for an appropriate box to ship them in.

Then I decided to finally forge weld the steel bit on the pein of the cross-pein hammer I'm making. I may have overdone stayed down there too long, needed a cold shower and lots of water afterwards.

#blacksmith

It printed ok! Yay!

Should now get much better airflow in the forge.

#blacksmith #3dprinting

This is pretty awesome. Somewhat impractical down the pub, but awesome all the same: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsTTXYxydOE

I will concede that there is 258,975 photographs in my Lightroom catalogue, but still, I'm sure you don't need to load the thumbnails of the entire catalogue into memory at once (or whatever it is you're doing to eat all my RAM).

Ummm, Adobe, can we just have a quick word about how amazingly inefficient your software is?

Ignore the label, i reused a jar, but I made my own roasted peanut, peanut butter (or peanut paste as it was known as in Qld when I was a lad).
#food

New fruit loaf.

Fig, date, apricot and pecan, with fennel seeds, star anise and mace.
#breadPosting #bread #pane

Interesting. All Government sites on FB have also been included in the ban. No BoM, no Queensland Health, etc...

They are definitely not "news" sites per sé, but clearly FB is just firing a broadside at the Govt.

Possibly *the* most important phrase I've learned in Italian to date.

#Duolingo

The nutmeg was a nod to Jon Townsend (of 18th C cooking fame), but it really did set it off.