WD-40

Genetically I should be mechanically minded. My father was a brilliant car mechanic and my sister is amazing. Dorothy is tall, elegant and posh. Everything has to be just so, and her speech doesn't relax into the popular idiom as mine does from time to time. Yet give her a ball of string and a screwdriver and she will keep many things going until an expert is reached - and without breaking an immaculately polished fingernail or getting oil on a silk blouse as she does it. I am the exception and just drift through life thinking nice thoughts and generally doing things my way, although I do manage fairly well. With posidrive and flat screwdrivers, a ...

This summer I took my children for a week’s holiday in Dorset, not far from the Devon border. We were lucky with the weather and spent much of our time on the beach. It was a totally relaxing holiday only slightly marred by the oil washed up onto the beach from the cargo ship Napoli which was beached off Branscombe on the Devon coast in January 2007. Despite my nagging to avoid the tar we still managed to get our trainers, legs, towels and various other items of clothing/ bodily places spotted with oil. Off I went into the local village hardware store for some help. “Do you have anything to…” I started to ask. No need to finish the sentence. “Get tar ...

Today it has been very windy. I therefore really noticed the squeak on my daughter's bedroom door if she left it slightly ajar...and as a result it was slowly starting to really annoy me. There is a limit to how many times I can ask her to shut the door because the squeak is getting to me, so I snapped and ran to the kitchen to get something I think every home should have - and that's WD-40. Two sprays around the hinges later and the door has stopped squeaking. Yes...its that simple to restore peace and harmony in your home! WD-40 was invented back in 1953 and was originally marketed as an anti-corrosive water repellant, but over the ...