My large Lowe Alpine backpack comes with a nice lacing system for attaching shoes or a jacket outside the pack. I have a smaller Deuter backpack with eyelets for adding the elastic, but I rather missed the plastic part on the Lowe, which does a good job of keeping the elastic in the right place and...

We've been looking for a tray for the coffee machine for a while, as the integrated drip tray isn't very effective. After a time there's always a pool of coffee/water underneath, damaging the couter top. At last we found one that fits like it was made for it except... sod's law, the cable doesn't fi...

The balcony PVC doors and windows in our flat are a bit past their prime, but they'll do for a few years yet. They've proved almost impossible to get parts for though, a case in point being the spacers between the latches. These have become rather unattractively discoloured and some have simply brok...

I've often been frustrated when I spot some interesting wildlife but can't get a decent photo. I have a telescope and tried digiscoping a while back - for this you buy an adapter that allows you to take photographs through your telescope with a cameraphone or point-and-shoot camera. The results were...