swann cctv is good. I installed it earlier this year when maplin had a sale on. £350 for four 720 line cameras and a HDD bigh enough for a month of motion sensed recording. Best bit is being able to monitor from my mobile phone from ANYHWERE…great for peace of mind when away on hols or business.

Good result. Hope it brings more powers to the regions, including God’s Own Country 🙂

We ended up with a lilac boy and blue girl…

Now 9 months old, part of the family and have firmly trained our Labrador.

yup down here. second time in a week…someone is serious about DOS attack on them.

Thanks for the advice…will start at the very begining, its a very good place to start. 🙂

Ebay
Dropbox
Facebook(?)
Weather pro
Google maps

Thanks Count! Will take me a while to check all those out. But I will.

just listening on spotify now. Everything goes my way is OK. Will resist skipping to the tracks you suggest! Ta. [edit] oops, realised that I had already heard em both….good background music, but not memorable in the main.

I have now listened to a few more of their tracks and fear that this might be their one hit…any other suggestions for equally enchanting music (from this or other groups in a similar style). 🙂

Got it in one! Thanks!
Sorry for the delay in reply…was travelling and then back at work.
STW does it again.

Having bought a basket of good for £60 that includes two jumpers then I think that UK law would be fully on your side. I would keep it with zero guilt. They offered the price of £60 for two, you accepted by paying, they accepted by dispatching. You paid them something and they gave you something in exchange, so a contract was made and fullfilled. Easy peasy. (Straight from something I read on the internet …:-))

Milk is mainly white because of the fat globules that are in it reflecting light. Thats why UK skimmed looks translucent and a bit blue. If the fat levels are different in Spanish milk or if globules are different size it would change the perceived colour. Knew that my time studying dairy chemistry in Cork would be handy one day!

I had to check this wasnt a wind up…heck its true! Shame on GQ.

not a happy wife here…such first world tedious problems.

Down for wife, but OK for me…randomly buggered!

There are things you can grow that are less effort, but I would say unless you can spare 2-3 hours a week then dont bother.
Thats a minimum. In summer and spring we often spend a full day planting, weeding, harvesting, weeding, digging, weeding. Get the picture!

They really are very good. I use mine with an external battery for AmDram recordings of junior theatre. Results are very good. Lots of mounts, good support. Recoimmended.

Get well soon Ton. Hope to see you up and about round Rothwell before too long!

the sainsburys copper bottom non stick frying pan is the best I have ever owned.

Depart: VIP area in Millenium square, Leeds (sorry couldn’t resist!)
Sunday: Working at Harewood House cycle festival.

Other common problem is brutal defrosting…have you or a previous owner punctured the inside of the cooling element by using a knife to defrost? Used to help my dad fix 10 of these a week in the summer hols.

Son of a refridgeration repair man. This will most likely be either loss of gas or the insulation has failed. Some fridge freezers use open cell foam that will pull moisture out of the air like a sponge if the protective skin on the back of the unit is punctured, this means the compressor has to cool both the inside and outside of the unit.
Summer is the normal time to notice these problems as the unit has to work harder.

Really good to see this! Doubt anyone can find my Orange Vitamin t2 stolen in 2002 though!
Well done OP.

Another option in situations like this is to stick a bit more in your pension to bring your take home pay back below the limit.

25mm steel ground anchor, mix of locks, CCTV and barky dog. Got done once in 2002 (my Vitamin T)…. Now seek to minimise risk!

Companies need to offer a reason for people to shop in their stores. If the are not competetive then let them fizzle out and companies like alpkit and Embers will sell a bit more. Top end brands will still have an outlet somewhere.

wife got hers renewed last month (May). Took right up to the 4 weeks, so longer than usual, but not surprised that passports take longer in the run up to summer. I think that as spooky says, now that its been made an issue it will be as everyone who has less that 9 months on their passport sticks it in for renewal “now” just to be sure.
Basically those who are whinging about missing holidays are either overseas (which I understand take longer) or are the same disorganised idiots that post on here “I ordered brake pads from CRC yesterday for this weekends trip to Morzine…CRC have failed me”…Plan a bit more!!!!

Gutted. Grew up on his comedy.

This is the model, but shop around:
http://www.powertools2u.co.uk/Line-and-Edge-Trimmers/Makita-24.5cc-Linetrimmer-EBH253L.htm?gclid=CjkKEQjwk9CcBRDEopHmnZa5td8BEiQAr2BckItHPU6tH-F-jZQzdRqrYxDzODrVJg7uytLkbiYrND7w_wcB

We recently looked at this. Sthil is the obvious choice. We ended up buying a 4 stroke Makita ands its brilliant.
£230 (half price) so about the same price as the cheapest sthil, but an epic bit of kit….does our garden and allotment in no time!

The rise in population is another issue, no easy fix.
But one further issue that hasnt been added so far is availability of fertilisers.
Current agriculture relies on fertiliser (fantastic BBC article published last week on Nitrogen and the Haber process).
Fo current fertilisers we rely on fossil fuel based petrochemicals (running out sometime), and phosphur mining, which again is a finite resource. Cheep food has been porpped up by cheap feriliser. Fertiliser will be much more expensive in a few decades time.
Now much can be done to improve fertiliser application (prevent run off into rivers etc), but we still need to have crops that use natural fertiliser and need less NPK.

Good reasoned debate here bySTW standards!
I pretty much agree with everything Shackleton said.
As a food chemist and organic gardener, I think I have a fair grasp of the issues.
Few bits of info to throw into the debate pot:
If you eat chicken then you are already eating indirectly Food which has GM in the supply chain, most chicken you can buy is fed on GM feed, even small scale farmers of chicken find it virtually impossible to guarantee no gm feed in their chicken.
To repeat again, its not GM per se. Its the application of it that is key. With climate change we need more crops that can fix nitrogen, resist fungi, rusts and other climate fueled diseases . The rise in climate volatility and increase in warmth and average humidity has meant that pests and plant diseases are getting worse every year.

Lastly its bacteria and viruses that scare me. GM modify them and we are in trouble. GM modify a sheep and if you get it wrong then you can point at it in the field and turn it into lamb kofta.

Generally I believe that we need to research the science on this, but ensure big companies dont abuse positions.

Recent Dredd film was really good, not the epic stories of the comics, but a good short story well filmed.
2000AD is a rich mine of stories for Hollywood. Loved Dredd stories like chopper and league of fatties, and people who lived inRV’s permanently, and the woman who was a champion washing up competitor, or the roundabout that was so busy it was used as a prison, or the USSR range finding guns that could shoot through walls. Every week had more ideas than you can wave a stick at.

This is a good price:

http://www.fastfix.co.uk/makita/Makita-BHP456RFWX-18v-LXT-Anniversary-Combi-Drill.html

Get a makita lxt….I have Bosch and the batteries are rubbish (though its the older nimh).
I have a makita impact driver and strimmer and the build quality is epic.
The 18v LXT range has a great selection of body only tools at sensible prices.
Shop around though as I found places MUCH cheaper than screwfix for makita.

However , naturally with this being STW, what you really need is this:

http://www.onlinepowertools.co.uk/prod/makita-18v-lithium-ion-11-piece-kit

Can’t believe the variety of preferences on this thread. Still, I suppose it takes allsorts.

Dualit…overpriced tat. Nice stainless steel exterior, but elements fail regularly. Even their commercial stuff is rubbish, our toaster at work has had more elements than Triggers broom has had heads!

I would have to say the original coconut boost…oh and Thorntons chocolates that were not stripped of all quality to meet the demands of selling in a supermarket.

Homer: “Bart, never forget you are special. Just like everybody else”.

Might have exact wording wrong, but use of it got my son to 16 with good results!

We have one (2004 model). Fab car, solidly built and fast enough for 2.5 tonnes of lumbering bulk.
Thirsty at about 30mpg when I drive, but mid 20’s when my wife drives.