I had an acquaintance who had a bodhran which developed a hole. He was the sort of bodhran player who cannot seem to stick to the rhythm in sessions and joins in uninvited when people are singing (especially when really good singers are trying to give their most tasteful and sensitive performances).

He asked me if I knew how to fix the holes in his 'instrument'. I told him to carefully place it in that big plastic bin on wheels outside his back door, and that the men who came to empty the bin every Wednesday would fix it for him free of charge ... He's still waiting for them to return it ... I keep telling him, "any day now!"

I'm planning to advise him to carefully place himself in the bin so that he can be transported to the 'bodhran-mending-place' and check on progress.