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Even if you watch quizzes and pitch yourself against the contestants? I find it tough to understand the answers on "Only Connect"... OCDB – The Only Connect Database

That sounds close to one of my volunteering activities: Repair Café. Even if not so hot at the engineering/DIY aspects, they need organisers, meeters & greeters etc. Typically each location has only one event per month, but there are lots of locations...

You could try for that famous low-tide cricket game, perhaps?

There's a model of car with something similar. First time I saw it I remarked that it must be to accept the kicks of people who think it is ugly!

Co-incidentally I received a catalogue from cpc.co.uk which mentions "12V Traveller TVs". So you could mount one on your gypsy (ho, ho)...

I should have guessed...

You can't use a "transformer" with a DC supply; it has to be an inverter (or rotary!). So I don't understand the question...

I remember reading an anecdote about mysterious distractions of the steering compass. The skipper kept interrogating his crew about carrying steel items, which they denied. When he got to pocket-emptying, one was found to carry a pocket compass. "But it is brass!"...

Even the arithmetic is wrong!

Then of course there's the late George Melly's Rum, Bum and Concertina www.goodreads.com/rum-bum-and-concertina

Give it to an Iron Man to keep?

The joyous meeting of elf-and-safety and risk assessments...

Independent eyeballs sounds like one on the pot and the other up the chimney! ;-)

And the ship's cat would feel comfy too...

This older person has no hankering to go into Space...