Grumble alert!

Be alert, your country needs Lerts.

It could, possibly, be the shortest day. No eye deer.
For a number of years I've tried, unsuccessfully, to get a South-facing shot of the garden, with the sun in all 3 locations:-
1. Rising.
2. 12:00.
3. Setting.
Today I doubt such an entity still exists.
Instead I did the unthinkable and tidied - SLIGHTLY. In consequence I got two more incoming periodical wrappers.
I, obviously, wondered why, when paper is both easily obtainable and recyclabe, the senders bother faffing around with other things for posting.
SO!
These two will now enter the race in my Earth maker© composter to see what comes out the bottom many moons hence.
There have been two in the worm bin; once since Aug and the 2nd since November.
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On a somewhat different tack:-
My timing belt's bust.
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I have had a relative invasion today and got the engine out to show the two young 'uns.
It ran perfectly, firing in the expected order, etc. - BUT - The rockers & cam followers were on strike. I'm now wondering how far I need to strip it back and if Superglue© will do the trick?