Day to Day Log

Created by: Lester Caine, 13 July 2025
Last modified: 13 July 2025

2 February 2026

By Lester Caine
2 February 2026

Quite a productive weekend and Monday. I've tidied away all of the kit that was spread over the floor of the loft, and pushed the last of the bits from the garage that were around the flat up there as well. Still a few bits to sort, but they are at least tidy. A large box of parts arrived from the MERG kitting service and I can now at least sort that into boxes and keep it all together in the loft.

Having pushed stuff up, I have pulled a few things down, and today I managed to g…

29 January 2026

By Lester Caine
29 January 2026

It has been an interesting seven days. Having jumped through a few hoops I now have RDMCloud live and linked into all my devices so I can get the basic stuff done. Calendar and Contacts are working nicely and I have been adding events like getting the car booked in for an MOT on the phone and it actually appearing in the desktop copy including in thunderbird. DAVx5 is apparently providing that magic rather then Nextcloud, but certainly it's progress. I am still struggling…

22 January 2026

By Lester Caine
22 January 2026

Nextcloud has come back to the top of my list again although I think I was playing with owncloud when the myhomecloud.uk domain was set up. I'm perhaps not seeing some of the features I would like to see in Nextcloud such as wiki and blog modules? In addition a forums option would seem to me to be another feature, but I am not sure that help.nextcloud.com is acually hosted as a nextcloud instance? 

Watch this space ...
I've made a lot of progress today, but s…

8 January 2026

By Lester Caine
8 January 2026

The health blog will explain why there has been such a gap since the previous post. I did manage a post on the Dalek progress but that was 4 weeks ago as the next batch of parts has just been delivered. Will get into that when I get back from physio appointment later, and I see that the following set includes the first of the base motors. Not that it will be moving around the floor any time soon. I…

12 December 2025

By Lester Caine
12 December 2025

Filling Reels on Lathe

Pulled the last of the equipment wire from the garage and found a couple of bits that I was missing. Reels of green/yellow earth wire in both 16x0.2mm and 32x0.2mm so that ticks them off the list. Just need the purple in 16x0.2mm to complete that set. I've a lot of reels of 24x0.2mm and 32x0.2mm, but duplicates of the colours I had already sorted. Just…