Bike lights and bits
8 June 2022 12:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
igenlodeYet another set of bike repairs -- a second attempt at the lighting system. It turns out that the problem was that the *last* time the lighting system was repaired (May 20th; contacts on front lamp cleaned and re-crimped), the cables to the rear lamp were somehow swapped over. The dynamo presumably provides alternating current, so it shouldn't theoretically make any difference which is current out and which is the current returning... but switching the two plugs over caused the back light duly to shine brightly instead of flickering its back-up LEDs, and restored function to the front light, which wasn't working at all unless the back light was unplugged!
I finally finished stitching my shoe kit; the new shoes (size 7–8 uppers on size 4–5 soles) look a lot less wide than the old ones, presumably because the soft leather hasn't 'spread' yet to accommodate my ridiculously short and wide feet, and of course aren't so comfortable to wear. They do not, however, have holes on the sides and disintegrating soles :-p
I also decided to 'pot up' my back-up chillies. Of course they are much too young for that (there is a lot of seed in there which turns out still to be in the process of germinating, and naturally I shall have far too many seedlings), but they really can't stay in a shallow coffee-jar lid on the window sill for much longer. The biggest ones already have an L-shaped root where it had hit the bottom of the soil at a very early stage.
I finally finished stitching my shoe kit; the new shoes (size 7–8 uppers on size 4–5 soles) look a lot less wide than the old ones, presumably because the soft leather hasn't 'spread' yet to accommodate my ridiculously short and wide feet, and of course aren't so comfortable to wear. They do not, however, have holes on the sides and disintegrating soles :-p
I also decided to 'pot up' my back-up chillies. Of course they are much too young for that (there is a lot of seed in there which turns out still to be in the process of germinating, and naturally I shall have far too many seedlings), but they really can't stay in a shallow coffee-jar lid on the window sill for much longer. The biggest ones already have an L-shaped root where it had hit the bottom of the soil at a very early stage.