365/357: 11 February 2011: Deadly weapon

..in the right hands. To be honest i can’t quite remember how I came by this fearsome looking thing, but one things for sure – it wont be leaving the house. When I was a kid I used to wear one of these on a belt to Scouts – times have changed a bit.

365/79: 09 May 2010: The ultimate boy gadget?

Invented in the late 1890s by a Swiss surgeon called Karl Elsener, whose key innovation was to make use of the same spring to put a blade at either end of the knife. It must be the ultimate boys toy (if you ignore a Lamborghini) as well as being genuinely useful. Anyhow, I’ve had one for ages, and I’m not sure how half the household jobs would get done without it – this version even has a pen and a pin in it.