The Bodge.

A week or two ago, Herself, under the urge of some sort of primeval spring ritual decided to clean the fridge. Unfortunately, it came apart in her hands; that is to say. the plastic clip-on bits that support the glass shelves disintegrated. Possessing an ingenious and flexible mind-set, I hand-crafted replacements out of wood originally destined to be part of a bee hive – which accounts for the fact the pieces of wood are a bee-space thick but not that they are held in place with Gaffer Tape.
 
Many years ago I had a friend who was a keen kayaker who made his hobby interesting by only venturing forth in storm conditions; his name often comes up in conversations about gaffer tape because his vessel was fitted with a fixed rudder whose purpose was to stop the rear end swinging about with each paddle stroke rather than to provide a means of steering. The rudder was held in place with this tape so I figured that it would be sufficiently sturdy to support the shelves. It may not be elegant, but that problem can be solved by keeping the door shut.
 
Note: A bee space is that space through which two bees can just pass back to back without impeding one another. It is an essential concept in hive design owing to the facts that: a significantly wider gap will be filled with honey comb, a significantly narrower gap will be sealed up with propolis, while the right sized gap will be respected and maintained by the bees. It was in 1852 that Lorenzo Langstroth patented a hive that incorporated the bee space which enabled bee keepers to disassemble hives to both manage the bees and to remove the honey crop without killing the bees, although other hives featuring the bee space had already been around for sixty years.