Power Tools will save your day. One day.

by: Sarah Maple
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Our village is small. We're fortunate to have a pub and a post office given there are just around 300 residents. The post office is there because it also serves people from the surrounding villages and outlying hamlets and farms. The pub is just plain good, and people come from miles around for a drink and something to eat; the food is very good and the staff are friendly. The post office is also the village shop. So really we've got enough to go on, and with the village hall, there are also a range of community groups and events, and we're now holding a car boot sale.

We're some way from the nearest main road, so to get as many people as possible to visit our car boot sale a local carpenter has put together some signs. I offered to place them by the main road on the hedge, so I drove out one morning on the way to work with the intention of putting them in a good position so people travelling in cars in both directions would see them.

I aimed to place one sign on each side of the road. I had brought with me a large rubber mallet to hammer the signs into place. Standing on top of the hedge with cars passing by I struck the mallet on the top of the post. The mallet struck and then the signboard fell off. It had been nailed into place but I had hit the post too hard and the shock wave of the mallet striking had caused it to fall off.

A passing car driver looked at me as I struggled to regain balance, holding onto the post like a walking stick with my arms flailing, mallet in hand. I must have looked a bit silly, especially with the signboard upside down at the bottom of the hedge by the main road.

I needed to get that signboard fixed to the post before more cars went by. Otherwise they would think our car boot sale was going to be as silly as I was worried I was looking. Did I have any nails and a hammer in the car? Did I have any sticky tape, blue tack, string, anything I could use to fix the sign to the post? I hit the post in with the mallet some more times so it was standing firm in the hedge.

Then I looked around in the car - no nails, no hammer, no sticky tape. I looked around in the boot and eventually found my cordless drill that I had left in after going to a friend's house to help with some DIY. There were also some screws in the cordless drill case. It might just work. I carefully positioned one screw against the signboard and it went in and fixed the board nicely to the post. On the other side of the road I did the same, and there was just enough battery power left to do it.

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Sarah Maple writes about power tools and jigsaws.

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