That is my fear… Currently considering having gas brought in from the street!

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We’re going to see Brian Wilson performing Pet Sounds at Glastonbury Abbey in August !!!!

Oh dear, sorry to hear that! We saw him at Glasto Festival a few years ago :-(

Motorhead were my big disappointment, Lemmy might as well have not been there. :-(

We have an electric mat type from Warmup as fitted by the previous owner. The “3iE” controller we have is excellent – we run it on air-temp thermostat control mode because the floor sensor has broken.
Make sure you put any floor thermostat for an electric system away from the heating mat and away from central heating pipes.

As above, have dinner at Pla, it’s excellent. (slightly biased, we got engaged there!)

Get a ‘neutral’ pair first, but please don’t buy karrimor ones! Fit matters most. Don’t buy something made for speed/racing to start with.
My cheaper Salomons I use for the gym aren’t very well designed & would cut my feet to ribbons if i tried running in them. Whereas I wore my Asics trail pumps for a trail 1/2 marathon 1st time out and they were great!

Debenhams’ “Hammond & Co” range by “Patrick Grant” is nice, as is the John Rocha range. They’re ok for a couple of work casual shorts IMO.

FWIW, we used a water-based stain (from these guys, via local supplier http://www.icaspa.com/ww/en/iridea_color ) on the wooden trim fitted around our new windows, and it does bring the grain out well.
A wipe over with meths beforehand also helped even more.

Just take it up to your local windscreen replacement centre to ask them for a quote. As above, probably only £50 max i’d have thought.

I’ve got a big Forge Steel one and it’s ok. Having one with a ruler measurements on the side can be useful but not entirely necessary.

Did you get any closer to solving this problem? I wondered if you had poor wiring between 12v converter -> control panel, or possibly a knackered control switch/button on there?

For evening food, a couple of the greek restaurants specialise in beef & steaks – they’ve been fantastic when i’ve been in.

So, while it’s plugged into 230VAC, is there 12-14V across the terminals of the battery? i.e. It would be charged if it were there?
Sorry but there’s lots of stuff above & I lost track of what was/wasn’t working & how it’s wired.

Intriguing…… May still consider it but possibly not trek all the way there in the van then, perhaps wrap it into a general summer mountain trip instead & just fly to Geneva or somewhere near the hills. Cheers all.

As above, you’re probably squeezing/squashing them without realising it. You could put some zinc oxide tape on them like a plaster if you want to see if it helps? It may just be something you’re going through whilst you get used to it all…

I think I must do something similar on hill runs as one of mine on each foot goes black but doesn’t on flatter road runs.

By any chance was it a Countrywide-group broker?

I get a black middle toe-nail on one foot from running hills, not really sure why but the skin has hardened around it too. I’m going to change the lacing method to try and stop the trainer moving even if i don’t realise it is.

Copper, and Brasso them to get the shine up (well, it worked for doing my curtain rails anyway)!

You can plot routes fairly accurately using http://www.mapmyrun.com beforehand.
I bought a 2nd hand Garmin Forerunner 15 to use for pacing, maybe worth trying one that way?

If you just get double-glazing, then get as wide a thickness spacer bar as you can fit, as increasing the gap inbetween the panes also helps.

I think i’ve read that some cars need power steering systems re-calibrating following a battery fail (or voltage drop?), turning lock-to-lock a few times or similar. I think my old Clio needed something similar.
Perhaps Ibizas need something similar?

We have a few of them on our doors, hate them as most of them need quite a lot of force to turn due to heavy springs/high spring rates. One has an Isle Of Man triskelion stamped on it. Odd, because we live in Somerset.

Yes I sure did – cleaned them out of 3 bottles! :D

Is this for Ardbeg 10yr old 70cl? My local store is still charging £47!

Did you have to sign for it then? You can’t surely expect personal attention from the police cyber-team type folks so soon – basically just contact your card issuer & tell them you’ve either had nothing or what you’ve been sent is clearly fake.

Your phone’s wi-fi antenna might also not be retively as good as the DECT handset’s

When you say you’ll be putting in insulation, I assume it’s an old stone-built place and you’ll be dry-lining everywhere cramming with Celotex stuff, or just loft insulation?

The bathroom fan in our old place was wired up similarly to yours. We had to use to the isolation switch as the on/off sw.
It didn’t get used, we just left the window open on the vent latch!

Yes I would, but probably not enough to cover the build costs of a decent brick one, which I assume would be a few thousand?

We just came back from a few nights at Hill End. It’s nicely placed by a big beach, the pub is a bit of a trek uphill mind! Fires allowed if off the ground, nice relaxed atmosphere on site too.

A 4WD version will likely be give worse MPG, and also – surely it’s not really a live rear axle on the 2WD version? It’s not an agricultural vehicle, afterall!

For what it’s worth, you could always have the castor/camber/toe angles changed a fraction to something more suitable than “standard spec”, if it continues to rub.
I had to do that in the past with an RS Clio I had which wore tyres badly, a common approach was to slightly alter the setup to be more ‘neutral’. Practically zero effect on day-to-day driving but better more even tyre wear.

Did any of you see Musaic play today? A friend’s folk band, some of them based around Todmorden too.

Sounds like an opportune time to invest in an electric sander, perhaps?

If hiking, and you do a circular route, you could stay at refuges (hostels) on the route? I’ve done that while doing GR55 in the 3 valleys region, sorry but can’t help for Chamonix though.

Aye, just park in town, it’s no hassle.

HA – don’t me mean, it was made specifically by hand for me as a birthday present, to go along with the day’s Falconry activities we did. :lol: We did a couple of hours taking a pair of harris hawks for a walk amongst other things – this is a model of the female one :wink:
The sculptor has since died so we can’t even get it repaired by her! We are assuming it’s the cat that did it, could’ve been the 4yr old nephew…

Epoxy it is then…

For whatever reason I didn’t get anywhere on my own so I switched to The Fair Trade Practise and reasonably quickly they get me a decent result. Were fine to use, fairly expedient & not too pushy. I think the process is fairly well automated now so you may do just as well yourself. Certainly, it’s a annoying having to pay out a % to someone just for filling in a few forms!
If you want to use them, please let me know – I can get a referral bonus :wink:

I use a Seaward Apollo 600 with the bluetooth printer for labelling – it prints barcodes to make subsequent inspections easier.
We bought the s/w too for cataloguing results for future cross-checks.
It’s ok, although we’ve had reliability issues.

The e-festivals website forum has plenty of info on this in the glasto sub-section, go take a look…

Well the 601s used to be good for the money – their modern equivalent 685 is reviewed well in certain mags.
It’s been years since I bought, but I preferred JM Lab/Focal to them to be honest, for similar music styles to what you mention.