Sock shrinking, episode 2

About  year ago I cut down a piece of what used to be called four by two, the sort of thing you used for rafters in the roof, to make a gadget for stretching socks, noticed at reference 1.

Since then things have got worse and getting socks on in the morning was becoming something of a trial, despite regular visits to M&S and such like places. Visits which would have been better had M&S not discontinued my size in the sort of socks which I like, which meant that the socks which I was able to buy lasted for even fewer washings than they might otherwise have.

So down to Travis Perkins to buy a metre or so of 10cm by 10cm prepared, the EC way of saying four by four, planed all round. Surprised both by the weight and by the price, £12.10 with VAT. Now tapered at one end as not very well illustrated, as you would not think that the upper end is less than 5cm by 5cm, less than half the dimensions of the lower end. Yet another foible of the telephone.

But we do seem to be in business.

Normally kept out of the way in the vertical position.

Reference 1: http://psmv3.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/sock-shrinking.html.