Hire car with less than 100 miles on the clock, I was the middle car in a 3 car sandwich. Technically I don’t suppose I broke it as not my fault, just was driving when it happened.

Normally more success if you use gf recipes, just swapping the flour out is a bit hit and miss.

I can recommend

Nigella’s flour free brownies

http://www.nigella.com/recipes/view/flourless-chocolate-brownies-with-hot-chocolate-sauce-22

Magic bean chocolate cake

http://forkingfoodie.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/magic-bean-cake.html

Mash potato lemon drizzle cake

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/5870/glutenfree-lemon-drizzle-cake

Carrot cake muffins

https://www.dovesfarm.co.uk/recipes/carrot-cake-muffins

Recipes always seem to specify gf free baking powder but I’ve never come across any that isn’t.

Both parts being swapped, manufacturing issues.

Third toilet lucky

Soller, Mallorca

The cistern is #5788A1 according to the box although stamped inside as 578810 (the A1 refers to the bottom water inlet so presume this is the same) and the pan is #565810 (according to stickered label). The measurements for the pan certainly tie up with this model and not any other. So it *should* all fit together

Not the same thing..like that but has a large jubilee clip which you clamp on the pan first. Can use that one above but trust me the other makes it so much easier.

Cheers will look it up

We’ve got it from a local place, will be getting in touch tomorrow.

the cistern and pan are not the same model..

That was my thought too, but as far as I can ascertain these two items should go together

Is that the same as this?

http://www.screwfix.com/p/mcalpine-flexible-wc-pan-connector-150-340mm/45410

which is what we are planning on getting.

We have a temp solution at the moment but involves propping the toilet up on some ply as soil pipe is a fraction too high. Although we’ve unplumbed again now until we go back to suppliers and see what they say…

It’s actually worse than that in reality, as I’ve taken the bolts out just to see if it would line up any better. With the bolts in it sits even further forward compared to pan, leading to a much larger gap to wall behind.

It doesn’t look terrible when viewed front on tbh, but I think it will annoy me for ever more!

Do you know if the pans have a model number stamped in them anywhere, the cistern is definitely what we thought we were getting but given the palaver we’ve had it would be good to double check the pan is correct (although going by all the dimensions it does look to be correct)

Unfortunately the big donut seal doesn’t make the rest of it line up any better :-(

No, the rear side is grooved so no mistaking which way round it should go. I agree that looking where it meets the pan it does look like that though!

The ones at the YHA at Hawkshead are fairly handy for Grizedale. All the facilities of the YHA to use as well. Not sure about pet friendly though.

The receiver on our Honeywell wireless thermostat went kaput last weekend and I’m wondering whether to swap to a Nest or just a straight replacement for another Honeywell.

I already get a letter every month from Eon saying we are more efficient that 95% of similar homes :-) so would a Nest offer anything extra?

Nobody owned up to the ‘unexpected item in bagging area’ that was broadcast on a call I was on recently.

Carefully unpick and iron, should be fine.

Our household set up is such that we could survive on just the OH’s salary if absolute needs be, so no real worry that I could be out of work.

The ‘it’s not forever’ aspect of contracting suits me right now and if you suffer from itchy feet, short term contracts look better than never sticking in any one permie job for very long.

Like the above poster mentions, I find it easier to switch off from work and not let aspects get to me when I know I’m not going to be somewhere long term.

(plus I get paid a lot more :-D )

I think we were quoted 1.5k for a builder to do the whole install but with no making good. Instead it cost us 400, that’s for a 2.8m span.

There are ways to save money if you are prepared to do some of the legwork.

e.g. we paid a builder £100 to install a steel but I bought the beam, sorted out the building control, knocked the wall down and got rid of the rubble.

Very happy with the Ikea kitchen we then purchased to go in the space. We paid to move our gas supply below plinth level due to the lack of service gap but this was a tiny cost compared to how much we saved versus getting a kitchen elsewhere.

June busy as best time for puffins at the farne islands too

If you want something one step up from camping the hides at springhill farm are worth a look. They also have cottages but haven’t used those.

http://www.springhill-farm.co.uk/the-barn

Hedge is past point of no return I think. It’s about 2m deep.

Or Amsterdam
http://www.amsterdamferry.com/hull-to-amsterdam.html

Now see if you can find a Hull – Amsterdam ferry in that drop down list?

Going from Hull, the ferry would be docking in Rotterdam…

The first bit from Europoort would be fairly grim to bike I would think.

Wee hoo

Red kite flying parallel to me for a couple of hundred metres the other day, kept looking to my right and there it was. Wish I’d had my camera

Where are you staying? Do you have transport?

Pool at wolverton is nice

Uncle Ben’s tomato risotto with added onion and chorizo.

Parking in the motel parking lot and using their free WiFi to book a room online is often cheaper than walking in the front door :-)

Never had an issue with any of the chain or non chain places we’ve used. They’re more open to haggling than in the UK too. Asking for an International/English person discount worked more often than not in less touristy areas

If you end up in St Louis and are doing a route 66 trip make sure you get to Ted Drewes for frozen custard.

beej – good decision I70 through Kansas is dullest road ever!

OP – time of year might influence route choice

I have driven st Louis – Denver – Utah – Grand canyon – Vegas – Death Valley – Yosemite- San Fran. Aside from the aforementioned bit across Kansas plenty to see along the way.

Your biggest expense is likely to be the one way car hire.

We camped with the odd night in motels and were driving a $400 car so v. low budget. I think we spent around 20 days to get from st Louis to San Francisco before carrying on up the coast and back to st Louis.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/ebygomm/sets/875056/with/39795358/

June/July is perfect timing for the top end really, between Darwin, Lichfield and Kakadu there’s plenty for a mini road trip.

Even if load bearing, installing an RSJ is likely to be fairly straightforward.

Once one went on mine, they all started to go. Managed to break 2 on a ride home along a sustrans cycle route. Got the whole wheel rebuilt.

It’s listed on the BBC article “Stories that look like April fools but aren’t”

Age 14 we read a piece in English class that detailed a caver dying from lack of oxygen after wedging himself so tightly into what turned out to be a dead end hole that he couldn’t be freed. From what I remember they left his body down there.

Never really fancied caving much after that.

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Also drilled holes to hold cloche hoops, which works well.

Yes, 2×2 in the corners.

One raised bed from a pack of 5 gravel boards (4 full length, then final one chopped into 4 for the ends) and one 2m length of 2×2.

We didn’t treat ours at all. Everything I read said everything will rot eventually and better spending less and renewing.

We built ours with gravel boards

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I work as a geospatial analyst but got into GIS entirely by accident. I don’t have any formal qualifications so can’t advise there either. So not enormously helpful I’m afraid!