Friday Smiles 2024 # Week 48

Another week has been and gone, and I have very little to write about. But at the weekend I saw our local policeman who helped us so much on the day of the storm, and he asked me whether the telegraph pole was still in our garden. When I said it was he promised to phone up on Monday and ask them to come for it, and sure enough, the next day there was a knock on the door and a man told me he was there for the pole. He had a crane lorry and soon he and his mate had the pole roped up and they carefully lifted it over the front wall, taking great care not to knock against anything. We are glad it has gone. One less thing to think about!

I have been busy with my laser cutter again this week, but first here is the finished bread board that was a work-in-progress when I showed it last week. (apologies to those who have already seen this on Facebook). I am very pleased with how it turned out.

Since then I have also made this cut out Nativity lantern. Agan I used an svg file that I bought off Etsy, and it was supposed to be for 3mm thick wood. I bought some more sheets of birchwood ply from Amazon which was supposed to be 3mm, but I guess it wasn't exact because the tabs on my lantern were too thick for the holes, so I spent one evening using an X-acto knife to shave each tab off a little on each side. It was fiddly but in the end it did go together and it was better, less waste-full, than altering the pattern slightly and cutting it all again. Now it is put together it is quite sturdy.

I like the images on the sides too, especially the little donkey.

Of course it looks even better with a small light inside it. It is supposed to be a battery operated tea light, but I didn't have one of those handy, so for now it has a small coil of tiny LED lights.

I really have nothing else to add this week, but of course I do have a couple of sky pictures that happened to catch my eye this week, so I will close with those and get ready to link up with Annie's Friday Smiles in the morning.