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		<title>No surprises</title>
		<link>http://www.nikrivers.com/2009/10/21/no-surprises</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:31:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone foolhardy enough to get me into a conversation about DIY will already know the stories about various bodge-jobs and shortcuts I&#8217;ve discovered, perpetrated by a past owner of this house. Yesterday I replaced the ageing heating thermostat (a rotary-style Honeywell) with a nice shiny digital one &#8211; a Horstmann Centaurstat 7, in fact.  It has quite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If it can, it will</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:57:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am slowly coming to accept the fact that seemingly simple tasks are never quite as simple as they should be. I&#8217;m mainly talking about DIY, and home improvements. The latest &#8216;quick job&#8217; that turned out to be anything but quick, was replacing our side gate. We haven&#8217;t used it since we moved into the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Take this broken wing mirror</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:57:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For quite a few weeks, the left-hand wing mirror on my car has been making a rather unsettling clicking/knocking noise every time it folds out. And at lunchtime today it decided it was finally going to give up the ghost. It folds in, but doesn&#8217;t fold out. Repairing it shouldn&#8217;t be too difficult, or so [...]]]></description>
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