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Ceil Fox

@ceilfox.bsky.social
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Blue fox, Marine engineer, general nuisance and purveyor of finest dad jokes, deleter of Pringles.

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Ceil Fox @ceilfox.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Cheeky bastards lot a fire in a cable duct to ensure the power tripped when in fact it was our old telephone cables, they came back the next night and cut them off the old bridge, all that risk for £30 at best!
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Ceil Fox @ceilfox.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Had to nip back to site because one of the 12kV vacuum breakers wasn’t working correctly and needed changing out, time for a game of “VCB Yeeting”, I’m pretty much the only person here with the wrath of qualifications and industry experience to be signed off to work on this.
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Ceil Fox @ceilfox.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I don’t know why I have a reputation for over engineering things, incidentally here is the tig welded stainless extractor canopy to go over my barbecue and the steelwork to hold it to the gazebo.
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Ceil Fox @ceilfox.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Finishing off the last after work MOT and I get a call from one of the Sri Lankan folk whose wife had broken down with the family in the car, I bowl over to them and find the earth cable to the engine broken, the odds that I happened to have the lugs and crimper in the car were somewhat long!
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arctickipp.bsky.social @arctickipp.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
With registration opening soon, are you happy to attend Confuzzled knowing what it's management have done and continue to do to its volunteers? Personally I think that if you are fine with it you shouldn't let the door hit you on the way out of the community. #BoycottConfuzzled
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Ceil Fox @ceilfox.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Today was the annual village barbecue, all I had to do to get a free burger was provide the barbecue and the slush machine! On a serious note though, I do always support the village events because we still have a good community spirit here which is pretty rare these days.
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Ceil Fox @ceilfox.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Finally had an afternoon free to put the external cladding on the shed I built for the neighbours 6 weeks ago.
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♠️Dobie-Ace @dobie-ace.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
'But theres no soap in here?' 🧼😆 @ceilfox.bsky.social 📸: Ramona
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Ceil Fox @ceilfox.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Neighbour at 4:30pm: could you MOT this fiesta for me because my usual car has broken down. Me: well, I guess my afternoon plans just changed.
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Ceil Fox @ceilfox.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I’ve looked after this Touran since new, it has 10,000 mile service intervals and I just did its 30th oil change.
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Ceil Fox @ceilfox.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I can’t say I disagree, boycott has two t’s though.
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Ceil Fox @ceilfox.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Memories on the phone just pinged me this picture of the old boy 10 years ago, before he died, he would be 20 ish here. Heart medication got him another 18 months of reasonable life quality.
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Ceil Fox @ceilfox.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
When you told Ceil to “defend the ball pit” you clearly neglected to specify what you meant!
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♠️Dobie-Ace @dobie-ace.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Stolen again! >_< @ceilfox.bsky.social 📸: Ramona
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Ceil Fox @ceilfox.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Sometimes it can be funny if not a little depressing to look back and realise you’re getting older. Ceil as a character dates back to Teenage Jez in 1993. I first attended Londonfurs in around 2002 and first attended a fur con over 20 years ago. I’ve always been that person in the background…
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Ceil Fox @ceilfox.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
On Tuesday we were able to get the last of the work done, the transformer output was out of phase to the existing infrastructure thanks to a pitch filled cable box that hid the connections to the old transformer but we managed to correct that on the HV side of the new transformer.
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NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton — a longtime ally to the LGBTQ+ community and a champion for children’s literacy — passed away today at 80.
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Ceil Fox @ceilfox.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Last time I operated this breaker on the network it closed and opened on a fault and has spent the last 4 years closed to circuit main earth so this old boy is coming out and a more modern unit is going in!
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Ceil Fox @ceilfox.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Next batch of boykissers should be here in around 2-3 months, I will try and make a list of those that want to buy them.
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Ceil Fox @ceilfox.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Having your house hacked about is stressful in a very destabilising way however there are some small things that are amusing to those watching…… like doing your washing up in the shower!
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Ceil Fox @ceilfox.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The local Sri Lankan community is bringing me so much home cooked food at the minute knowing I don’t have a kitchen I’m going to have a Sri Lankan accent by the time the building work is done!
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Ceil Fox @ceilfox.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
In at work yesterday, lots more cable dressing done and the LV ends terminated into the 2000a (1600a) breaker. Still need to run a 240mm2 Earth into the breaker cubicle to both Earth the cubicle and create the neutral (the star point of the transformer needs to be earthed to create the neutral)
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Ceil Fox @ceilfox.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Fair bit of prep work, separating out the cores and screens before adding allllll of the heat shrink then the lugs come off again before a final insulating boot it added, the lug worked until the clamp bolt shears then the boot is slid up over the bare metal.
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Ceil Fox @ceilfox.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Sorry for the time it took me to get back to everyone over the Confuzzled nonsense, I did not expect the post to get so much traction, didn’t realise just how many people appreciated the fursuit lounge kit I designed and built, thank you for the support and over 900 direct messages!
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Ceil Fox @ceilfox.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Cable containment for the LV side of the transformer and the new retrofitted ACB are in place, just need to add 100m of unistrut for the cable containment from the ACB into the LV panel, the LV panel will have two 1600a per phase feeds.
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Ceil Fox @ceilfox.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
One of the jobs I need to do today/tomorrow is remove the old HV cable termination that went to the transformer that blew up and install/terminate the new cable. It’s 13kV XLPE cable to replace the old PILC. HV doesn’t stay where you put it so bends & sharp edges have to be avoided in the cable box.
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Ceil Fox @ceilfox.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I’m really bad as asking for help, one of the most common things Faith says to me is “you could ask me to help”. I asked one of the people in the village (who I repair vehicles for) if they could arrange for me to drop off the scrap timber from the old fence, cheeky sod just turned up & did it :p
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Ceil Fox @ceilfox.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Walked into our primary intake substation and came face to face with this just behind the 24MVA 12kV panel. CBRE have a new problem to deal with!
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Ceil Fox @ceilfox.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Out in a warehouse staff car park tonight, Paula has broken down so standard drop everything and rescue fox away!
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Ceil Fox @ceilfox.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Fitting the cable containment before we run 7 500mm2 cables from the LV side of a transformer to this 1600a breaker then from the breaker to a set of busbar extensions in an LV panel then it’s just the 3x1x90mm2 13kV cable to terminate in the back of an HV breaker & to the HV side of the transformer
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Ceil Fox @ceilfox.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I am always helping people out both in the fandom and in “normal” life with everything from fixing their cars, financial and business help, supplying things for village events etc but I am genuinely terrible at asking for help. With the building work I said the line “I need to buy an air frier
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Ceil Fox @ceilfox.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
End of an era, all the kit is collected from the CFz stores. It was a bit bittersweet because three of the four of us that did the main move were the original build team that built them when I first designed them 15 years ago.
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Ceil Fox @ceilfox.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
(Having to rely on second hand info due to being blocked)but yes, happy to discuss in person but it will not be a one way street. I always put myself between SC staff and a problem internal or external and talking this out will involve me showing exactly what I defended them from all year…
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Ceil Fox @ceilfox.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
This is entirely true and as I am both damned if I do and damned if I don’t respond I will Just leave this here as it may help determine who is telling the truth.
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Ceil Fox @ceilfox.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Having tripping issues with a £5M lathe because the hydraulic oil is overheating, proper field engineering covering the hydraulic tank in heat sinks. A dozen of these and some decent fans should keep it running while we get a new, bigger chiller.
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Ceil Fox @ceilfox.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
On a different note, I take an elderly neighbours car for MOT (I can use the ATLs at a local centre myself after hours) and I’m greeted with what I assumed were Transit droppings…. I made a joke to the owner about transit droppings only to be corrected in that they are movano droppings!
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Ceil Fox @ceilfox.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Read through this, owning the situation would have meant apologising to me, this is basically “we went about it the wrong way but we still fired the person that had the guts to speak up and challenge us”
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Ceil Fox @ceilfox.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
So, a bit of an update… Confuzzled management have admitted that they made a mistake but rather than admit that belligerently changing the structure without consultation was the problem (which is why I blew up at them in the first place) I have now been terminated fully.
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Resine @resine.pride-queen.com · 15/07/2026
Ookayyy - Confuzzled Management issues and my resignation Send Skeet
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Ceil Fox @ceilfox.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
So, this was posted in the 2026 conbook about the equipment that I have built and operated for Confuzzled for over a decade. I am in a good position in that I haven’t signed any form of NDA so am not restricted in stating what has happened. With no prior discussion i was invited into a meeting with
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Ceil Fox @ceilfox.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
For 20 years I’ve been one of the people plodding away behind the scenes within the furry community, I’ve provided AV kit to most of the UKs cons (& NFC) to get them going and seem to spend thousands of hours making things work for others to enjoy but it sure gets harder, I’m getting older and more
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Ceil Fox @ceilfox.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Still here, somewhat mentally obliterated from the last couple of years, have some blue fop! With a cameo from Orange fop.
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Ceil Fox @ceilfox.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
The next batch of the inflatable boykissers are here!
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Ceil Fox @ceilfox.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Traditionally I would spend a couple of hours on New Year’s Eve writing up a bit of a year in review screenwipe and some thoughts for the coming year but 2025 was so bad for me from all angles I just want to forget it and make 2026 better. I found a lot of limits and learned to say no in 2025.
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Ceil Fox @ceilfox.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Being an adult is being able to buy your own pokeball power bank because you can.
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Ceil Fox @ceilfox.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
So I might have also printed boykisser balloons (24”)
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Ceil Fox @ceilfox.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
I’m no glazier but my elderly neighbour asked me to replace the window she fell against and I guess it’s the same reason the Sri Lankan folk ask me to do things that aren’t my remit, they are OK with me being inside their houses.
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Ceil Fox @ceilfox.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Open to offers on this boyo, early Mixedcandy suit, very little wear (that’s kinda the reason behind it, I don’t wear him) looking around the 2500 mark which is basically what he cost a decade ago. Fits 6’ and around 130kg.
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Ceil Fox @ceilfox.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
AMG Wuff
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Ceil Fox @ceilfox.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
And just like that, the first batch of toykissers are here……. I can start shipping next week.
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