Friday, July 25, 2025

Skewered


Here's another top tip for eliminating fasteners: laminated XPS of the kind we're using at present is easily fastened with either tooth-picks, cocktail sticks or indeed kebab skewers. Titter ye not, as Frankie Howard may say: the latter are almost indestructible, being from places prone to hurricanes where plant-life has evolved to bend and not to break.

Kebab skewers are harder to source once summer aisles are depleted at the store, where you should check with staff that they are suitable for flight in ground-effect. An alternative is Aldi Wagyu Beef Kebabs at just £3.99, including four skewers that I shall be stress-testing in the lab once I'm done eating.