It never ceases to amaze me what comes through the workshop
door. This week's bizarre item -- taken in for me to look at by a
music shop !! -- was a strange sort of 'Dalek' thingy on four castors.

Did you report the use of beavers as motive devices to the Humane Society?

Hope they didn't gnaw on your furniture. (The beavers, not the Humane
Society.)