credit to you for fessing up to being a fud.

😉

We all have fud moments. Now own yourself with Bombers as a penance.

Just bought a zipped “cardie” and a LS and SS black top. Bloomin impressed with the quality for the money. Hope they last as well as my fantastic embers kit.

If you knew what you were buying you would have known that the hope do different models, so that the seller must be wrong when he said ok for both. Therefore you are as guilty as him in making the mistake.

Actually mrmo, half the poulation are below the median intelligence. Not sure how many are below average.

I’m gonna steer clear if your family saves up for wars.

If you are a tax payer then you do save up for wars, yes even the rubbish unjustified ones that we slavishly enter because some nut job in Washington wants to make his pappa proud.

John Major as chancellor: ‘high unemployment is a price worth paying…’ vs Blair and Brown’s longest period of sustained economic growth since forever. I know who I’d chose. In fact I’d take Blair over the current shitbags any day of the week

Comparing the recession of the early 90’s to the crapfest that Brown presided over is very unfair. The labour government carried on the Conservatives (restrained) spending plans for the first year or two, then they went mental and Gordon spent the family warchest. The sustained economic growth they oversaw was built on dodgy foundations.
Its similar in America…Obama getting a hard time for having to clear up the mess that Bush left. Do the electorate really have such a short memory?

Size 10 Nike trainers fit me perfect.
Normally get 45 in Shimano or Specialized shoes.

We had a new system installed this year.
I went with a single wireless room stat, which is brilliant and really easy to programme. I then had regular TRV’s fitted to each radiator as previously there were none.
I spent the first week or so adjusting the TRV’s in each room to get the right temp, since then its just run itself.
I think the more expensive systems are justified in VERY large houses, or in houses where you only want to heat one half of the house one day, but the full house the next. In our house, all the rooms are used every day, so having a consistent temp was desirable.
The room controller for us was about £80-90, and the TRVs about £20 each. (The total cost including new WB Boiler was £1700)

I cleared mine last autumn. Costco tissue is not as soluble as my drains would like, coupled with kids who think that anything less than 15 sheets is not a handful.
I bought some drain rods from Wickes (£16) and cable tied the hosepipe to the end of the rod. Used LOTS of water to flush the drains out in reverse. Mine were blocked for a full 8metres. You will also probably find bits of gravel and half bricks etc in the system.
Not a nice job, but better than paying Dyno-con.

Sainsburys carrierbag holds all my stuff in one place in the bag.

Acer timeline laptops are very good.

Cara the Labrador…
Found her via this very forum.

Alex Kingston I think needs you to be a certain age. Thank christ I am not there yet.

Normally watch the news, the world as presented by the John Simpson is simple in comparison to the subplots of Dr Who. 💡

Its complex, but better than forulaic one baddie a week stuff. It is slightly indulgent at the moment, and I do prefer the plot within a plot thing of the earlier series. But I think the current storyline is a one of chance to tell a story that had never been told, so lets allow that indulgence. Next week looks like its back to a single baddie!!!

Thanks! Just put it on.

strikeback is good. If you dont like yank tv then you are goijg to be let down! believe bbc is good though.

surfing on an ipad1 now. Will buy ipad3 when released. Nothing i have seen comes close. Hope HTC come out with a top drawer android tablet.

I like both of freds pics.

I had our house done last year.
two 8m runs and some bloody long runs (with extensive soffits) at the side, where the roof overhangs the walls.
The rear also needed scaffold as we had a conservatory to work around!
New gutters too.

We paid £1500.

This was for a big 3 bed semi.

This cost was low though as we were introduced to the contractor and he did it with a mate in a weekend. Still, it must have been no more than £500-600 materials, so thats still a grand for a weekends work!

They stripped off the old wood and installed it to the rafters.

Food industry is busy, but profits are hard as supermarkets want more profit and food commodity costs are very high. Net result is that the producer and the consumer lose out. The retailers do very nicely thank you. Anyone seen Tesco profits this year!

Still for folk working in factories, its business as usual as many of nations food producers are busy as people are eating at home more.

Basically Stoner, you are building a big fat wonderfully Heath Robinson version of this:

Zalman Reserator 1 V2 and Fan Kit

Can we all pop round for a glass of Chateau Latour?

Oh and not sure what gasses are used these days (20 years since my dad did it). Used to be Freon, that was not dangerous (except for Ozone!)unless it went near a naked flame. The combustion product is phosgene gas, not nice stuff.

Wonder how much of the ozone hole was my dads fault.

Stoner, my dad was a refridgeration engineer, so I grew up with it.
The ideal thing would be the kit out of an old commercial fridge freezer as they are configured for blown air.
The pressure in a fridge/freezer is NOT dangerous. I have seen hundreds of systems punctured and pipes cut off systems and its no worse than letting down a road bike tyre (or Fox Shock!).

Compressors have a fill pipe. This is normally braized close at the factory, so if you want to refil then you firstly have to fit a fill valve.

The heat exchanger on the back of the fridge is low pressure and is relatively easy on most to take off, braize on extensions and relocate.
Most donor fridge freezers have the internal heat exchanger (the bit that gets cold) integral to the shell of the cabinet, so you might struggle to find an internal heat exchanger.

Hope this helps!

IF it was me then I would buy a 300 quid air conditioning unit instead.

I have a D80, and the D90 (and D7000 even more so!) are big leaps on in technology. The D7000 I recently (last week) saw discounted to about £900 with a VR lens, very good value. My D80 is now four years old and I find myself craving for something with HD video and much higher ISO sensitivity (lots of stage photography).

I use manual a lot, but mainly with Flash. This way I can meter for the background (and underexpose a little) and then have the flash/camera correctly meter for the main subject.

Or I can set the camera to 1/200 sec (max flash sync) and set a sensible f stop and then let my bank of flashes make up the correct amount of light (wireless).

The d90 is due for replacement soon.

Good luck!

RIP to a member of this talented team. Very sad.
Only seen them live once, in Cornwall in 2009. Will remember the display for ever. Hope the tragic accident doesn’t cast a shadow over their activities.

clip on socket rails?

though for fifteen quid the quarter inch set is a steal.

http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/HalfordsProductDetailsLiteView?storeId=10001&catalogId=10151&langId=-1&productId=177693&TB_iframe=true&TB_C_ID=productdetails&TB_C_TITLE=Halfords+Advanced+Professional+120+piece+Socket+Set&width=800

go on you know it makes sense.

get the halfords set for 99 quid that has all three socket sizes and all the sockets you are likely to need. I bought one four years ago and it was a great investment.

Last time i properly wailed was when i had to have my dog put down 2 years ago. The right piece of music sets me off too.

Too expensive?

Flippin fantastic news!
Been following this since the start along with some good friends at work.
Must be the good vibes and determination that did the trick.
Does this mean that the Daily Mail and Express will have to run “cycling cures cancer” articles?

Best PSA this year. Me and kids are glued.

Watching the clip, David Starkey comes accross as the most shouty opinionated one in the entire 10 minutes. If you thought he was getting ganged up on then you must have watched a different clip.

He makes SOME valid points if he is talking about culture. But his general attitude and some of the stuff he went on to say, and the way he said it showed him to have a mix of ignorance and arrogance.
To shoot his argument down, I would point to Manchester (or even Birmingham?), not huge black populations, but still plenty rioting.

farmer and pig in “Babe”

who?

No need to compare swiss army knives, if you havn’t got the “swiss champ” then you are not in the club.

[actually it is possible to use one as a club. An I don’t have one at the moment, but my son loves his swiss champ].