{"id":147,"date":"2008-02-28T07:56:19","date_gmt":"2008-02-28T07:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/?p=147"},"modified":"2008-02-28T07:56:19","modified_gmt":"2008-02-28T07:56:19","slug":"potching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/potching\/","title":{"rendered":"Potching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mattcashmore\/461657835\/\" title=\"Darn it by mattcashmore, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/205\/461657835_e5988eb3c8_m.jpg?resize=240%2C180\" alt=\"Darn it\" style=\"padding-left: 5px\" align=\"right\" height=\"180\" width=\"240\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m not sure when it happened, but all of a sudden I seem to be a potcher. Anytime I find myself twiddling my thumbs I gravitate to the garage where I start taking things appart and attempting to make them better.<\/p>\n<p>It may seem harmless, but my poor motorbike is getting a little sick of having everything taken off and messed with. I keep finding myself looking at sites that <a href=\"http:\/\/rtw.xtz660.googlepages.com\/alluboxes\">advocate building your own pannier systems. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think it all stems back to that mech engineering apprenticeship I did when I left school, it still feels like only yesterday but as my father reminded me this weekend it was 12 years ago. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.merton.ac.uk\/content.asp?co=243\">motorbike mechanics course at Merton<\/a> also has a part to play, and Stace has just started a welding course at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hotcourses.com\/uk-courses\/Welding-and-light-metalwork-courses\/page_pls_user_course_details\/189523549107\/\/25866600\/3808\/176146830\/1\/\/crs\/course-details.htm\">Hammersmith<\/a> that I think I may sign up for next term.<\/p>\n<p>The garage is pretty much complete now, the work bench is finally in, all that remains is to wire in the electrics (to the bech), pipe in the compressor and complete the shelving for the fridge and microwave&#8230;.. oh my dear Lord&#8230;  I am turning into my father.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure when it happened, but all of a sudden I seem to be a potcher. Anytime I find myself twiddling my thumbs I gravitate to the garage where I start taking things appart and attempting to make them better. It may seem harmless, but my poor motorbike is getting a little sick of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/potching\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Potching&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college-courses","category-general-ramblings","category-mechanics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}