BTW, re the folk craft questions. I wish I could...

We sort of inherited a pebble grinder/diamond saw unit but I was never able to make much of it (except I did once manage to cut a couple of shapes out of malachite I quite liked). Soon found I'd buy a cabouchon so much better to glue in a bought fitting...

I've got an idea floating around in my head at the moment for a 4ft solar (not wind) powered windmill as a decoration for the garden but doubt if I'm going to have either the woodworking skills or alternatively metal working skills to do it.

I can sometimes handle a few of the more technical aspects of a project (eg. if needs must, I could program a PIC or an Atmel microprocessor to do something basic) but I lack the more practical abilities.

It's annoying in some ways... As with joining in with music in a session, I do feel there is a basic minimum standard needed but on so much of this I fail on the equivalents of playing in time and in tune. Not so bad as it's only to amuse the family but I can get frustrated I can't do it.