A disturbed night. For some reason the Gorse Fox always seems to have a wakeful night after curry. No discomfort. Just wide awake. It's almost as if curry works like caffeine.
Today we return to the subject of the floating shelf. (The walk up Cissbury Ring is on hold, until this DIY adventure is complete).
The trouble with gravity is the tendency of things to fall down. The trouble with my design for this floating shelf is its mass. (The Gorse Fox does have a somewhat Victorian approach to engineering). Unfortunately my recollection of physics is that mass encourages gravity. In my experience, however, gravity needs little encouragement.
What to do? Ahhhh, the Gorse Fox realised that the influence of gravity on his design can be counteracted by using someone else's design... in fact it can be counteracted even better by using someone else's design and construction. Googling found him a special offer, and within the hour we had the aforementioned floating shelf back home ready to fit. (In fact, as they were on a 3 for 2 offer, we had 3 shelves).
A few hours further on and the shelf is mounted, the under-shelf light fitted, and we have have 2 spare shelves to fit somewhere, at some time.
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