Emily

I understand about the URL thing, it's just that apostrophe abuse affects me in a deep and personal way... I know, I'm sad. I'm a member of the forum you linked to- in fact it was from that forum that I got the idea for my shop, and from my forum name I got the title, and from the forum members I get most of my business!

It's called Furnival's Workshop, but Etsy have a cruel and sadistic shop names policy that prohibits spaces and apostrophes, so you have to spell it FurnivalsWorkshop, which causes a little apostrophe-shaped part of me to die every time I write it.

I make hair forks and hair sticks out of antler and wood and I sell them on my shop on Etsy on t'interwebs.

Cheers everybody! It's really misty here today and I haven't had time to sand any antlers and, despite contriving excuses to prod people in the face, I sadly seem to have lost my electrical charge. Thank you all for your help.

Hmm... I got some new shoes just before it started the other day! Will see what happens if I don't wear them tomorrow. Do you think I could light someone else's fart if I prodded them just at the right moment? Nah, me cooker button doesn't work.

Ah, thank you. It's definitely static then. Just a thought: I've been making things out of antlers for the past few days and spending hours and hours rubbing them with sandpaper (wow, my spellcheck tried to replace 'sandpaper' with 'endosperm') - could I be charging myself up with static? I went and prodded someone a while ago to see what happened and I gave them a shock. I don't know quite what to think about my newfound superpower.

Ooh err...

Hmm, I'll put the kettle on the burner and let it boil a bit. Thanks for all your replies folks

Right, changed me jumpers & trousers, cotton only, power still off, still getting shocks. It's a mystery. I think I'll go and plug my power back in, if this shows it isn't an electrical fault...? I've got no candles

Hmm... I'm gonna change me jumper and prod the burner and get back to you. If I'm not plugged into the shoreline (sorry for being thick), and it's still happening, does this mean I can stop being freaked out now?

Nope.

Cheers folks. I've unplugged myself from the shore line and just come back in and touched my burner and got a shock off it. Does anyone have any idea what that means? I have no other power source on the boat, I took my batteries out last week. I haven't got any new carpets or anything like that. I have been using a lot of power recently, a belt sander and the vac at the same time for hours at a time, and I've got loads of things plugged in all over the place. ETA: How do I check if I've got a galvanic whatsit?