Brown wood DIY

For some time I had been irritated by the wobbling shade of the table lamp which I had made from a 1950's brown wood ashtray, bought maybe ten years ago now, from Fagins on the Marsh Barton Trading estate in Exeter for a fiver or so. At the time, a wonderful emporium of all kinds of stuff, which FIL and I came across on the way to the dump. Unfortunately, reference 1 talks of a different location - but it also talks of strong organic growth, so maybe they outgrew their premises by the dump. Or maybe memory defective yet again.

In any event, thinking that repair was going to be a complicated business, involving reseating the bowl on the column, the sort of thing that might take half a day or more, not to mention glue, I was thinking that maybe it was time for the table lamp to be retired. But then, on a whim, I thought to take a proper look, to find that all that was wrong was that the screw that held the bowl on the column had pulled through its washer, perhaps when the lamp had been knocked over. Replaced screw with larger screw that did not pull through the washer and job done. Maybe twenty minutes after twenty weeks irritation.

PS: the blogger repair team must have moved into action. The image load button which was working this morning and was not working an hour or so ago, is now working again. I wonder if they have severity one incidents, severity two incidents and so on and so forth, and all the management pack drill which goes which such things? Texts to operations managers and chief operating officers to keep them in the loop? Fat procedure manuals which you ignore at your peril?

Reference 1: http://www.faginsantiques.com/.