My only advice would be to get away from Casablanca as quickly as possible. South of there morrocco is lovely.

The atlas are amazing. Ride over the tizi n’test pass.

Good luck with getting better. Blood infections are not good, but if your feeling bored your not dying which is always good

The biker with the mashed up leg wasn’t a Scottish fella called John was he? A mate of mine is in a hospital down that way.

I’ve got a crafter. It’s shit. I should’ve heeded my own advice and bought a sprinter

£10800 plus fitting for 15kW http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/152666142269

You could pick up some bargain panels from bimble solar

http://www.bimblesolar.com/canadian245wusedpallet

Red stripe the ship.inn has been done up, it’s much better now. I’m not a fan of port eynon though, bit chav central with all the static caravan parks

Three cliffs on Gower. It’s busy this time of year so could be a bit stuffy but the beach, River and castle it overlooks would make up for that. only pub within walking distance is a bit crap but plenty of great ones within a ten minute drive

I have a Kew gardens 50p. They are going for £60-80 in eBay auctions. Can’t bloody find it

It’s probably too far as it’s in Pembrokeshire but Celtic-camping is good. They have bunk houses too if the weather gets shitty.

There we go, wrightyson will come do it on the weekend for you and you’ve saved £100. This place is such a resource

Loads of sites advertising, everyone seems desperate for brickies at the mo. There are loads of people advertising 47p per brick, £1.30 a block and that is a big site with plant to move stuff to where you want it. These guys are going to have to stack out the bricks and blocks, mix and move their mortar etc etc 500 for a brickie and a labourer sounds reasonable to me. Day and a half / 2 days work it sounds like

I realise it is blasphemy to put a celica turbo 4×4 engine and running gear into a mini….. But I’ve been enjoying this YouTube channel https://youtu.be/7hCPODjJO7s

Its not finished yet at episode 15 but its a good mix of humour and engineering

there are reports of fire men and women working 13 hr shifts because everyone is there on site and there is no spare crew to relieve them.
Bloody heroes firemen, every last one
I did an extra hr in work and had to have a lie down when I got home

Harry the giant labradoodle had a massive fit once. Lasted over a minute and took him a while to come out of.

That was over three yrs ago and he’s not had one since.
They can be a one off event

My lab was on metacam for over 3 yrs. She had spinal problems so she was slowly becoming paralysed. Looked bad cos she would drag herself about the house but with the metcam she was happy enough. The last year, when she couldn’t walk anymore I made her a wheelchair for an old 3 wheeler pram. She loved it and did big laps of the park again. I would never have put her through the last 3 years without metacam. I used to pay for a prescription and get it online it was half the price this way

Stoner That link states electric is 16p and gas is 5.2p as a combi is 90% efficient so your % figures are are a bit out but I take your point, I was thinking of fitting one and was looking at manufactures figures for COP which is foolish. I do still like the idea of them though. Just for the lack of need of a gas fitter.

Still makes sense for the OP though

Have you looked at air source heat pumps? Run off electricity and are cheaper to run per kW of heat than mains gas combi boilers. Massively come down in price in the last few years too

Plastic paddy here. Makes travel nicer. The Irish passport seems to be much more welcome than a British one in lots of countries

rick steins book called seafood is good.

Pah! thats nothing, I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate.

Drink 12 cans of Strongbow and pee on it first thing in the morning. Only way to be sure

a hill?
i dont understand why your floor is like that?
things get built level not just following the local topography.
level the floor out mun, then you wont have to prop your fridge up on bricks!

i suppose you could make a shutter and pour some concrete in to level it off before you lay the blocks maybe. if your set on the idea of a sloping floor, could make a plinth for the fridge while your at it

footflaps, ive used the festool setup you have there and you are right, it is quiet, fast and virtually dust free. however for the cost of a festool sander and dust extraction, you could just pay to get it done professionally, cleared up, sealed and polished and probably still pocket £400!
your dead right about the floor sanders with bags though, rubbish, got to hire one with a hoover attachment

plastic chopping boards are not as hygienic as wood.

here is a single example of source, plenty more if you google
http://faculty.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/faculty/docliver/Research/cuttingboard.htm

depends what you intend doing with the paper afterwards?
what i mean is, you cant recycle it as it may infect other literature and you cant burn it as its particles could end up in the food chain. as far as im aware the only safe thing is to encase it in concrete for 15000 years

Go on the helpx website and look for someone that has room to park your van up in exchange for work. Farm, self build etc Most of the guys I know who have lived in vans do this and swap a day a week graft for their pitch and this leaves them time to find work. Worth a try? its expensive moving every night and an extension lead and access to a bog makes van life much more bareable.

Gower will be dry and sunny in sept. I work outdoors on Gower. Its usually the best month of summer

Get all the paint off along with any loose stone. Then paint the bathstone with lots of lime water to consolidate. Build up layers of ‘bathstone putty’ as a repair to the bathstone (if done well this should be almost unnoticeable) where its cracked. Then repoint the brickwork in a hydraulic lime and sand mortar. Do not repaint
Also the injection ‘damp course’ is going to cause problems but there is very little you can do about that now.

im a fair bit younger than many of you on here, but here is my 2p worth…
(excuse me if this is a bit blubbery)
my nan died last year, i was was very very close to her, i looked after her and kept her busy after my grandfather died and shared the care with my mum through her last 5 years of escalating dementia, dealt with the conversations where we took her from her home and built a space for her at my mums house, the falls, and restricting her movement, the fear and anger that dementia brings right through to the last two weeks where i sat with her all day, every day, reading to her so there was a voice she knew as she drifted in and out.

that sounds like hard times, but i cherish the memories, even the horrible ones where i was holding a head wound after a fall on christmas day (waiting for the angels that are the paramedics in this country.)

i knew what was coming and it was a relief that i didnt have to see her suffer any more but i would do it all again for one more hr sat with her.

my mum is still deep in grief a year on, i think she was too caught up in the practical issues day to day to realise that the important bit is to sit and share time, old age is an early warning to soak up as much time as you can, you wont get another go.

and get a plan together for finance, my nan worked flat out running a business for 40 yrs, scrimped and saved and payed every scrap of tax as her generation did and they took the lot in her last 18 months 🙁

you only get one go at looking after your aging loved ones, give it all you got

my burner produces most heat when you’re barely aware its lit.
as its my main heat source this is how it stays as its the most heat per kg of wood.
however on ‘date night’ the vent is open a crack and its full of small bits of wood so it fills the room with light and crackling sounds. i burn approx 3x as much wood this way and the room is about the same temp.
keep playing about, you’ll get used to it

i had an estate agent photo my house for the landlord and it was only as she left i realised there were pic of 5 bikes in them about to be published on the internet with outside photos of the house and the name of the road.

oh, and its surprisingly easy to hack a webcam. why is a different question

the way to break cast iron is with a pick axe not a sledge hammer.
keep the feet and taps and put them on a nice insulated epoxy reproduction

its all about the roundabouts these days

how about using the side of the cutting disk on your tile cutter, as you would with a grinding disk?
its going to wear out the disk faster but assuming your not going to do loads, it should be ok. worth a go?

i might have a go at fitting a grinder sanding attachment to the wet tile cutter, but i have a history of breaking jury-rigged tools 😐

if you have or can borrow a car polisher, there are diamond polishing pads available for as little as £40.
or if you have an angle grinder with speed control a sanding attachment with fine grit would probably work on a slow speed
have you tried just going at them with an electric sander?

(dust mask etc)

i would avoid pre-mixed, but then i am used to wet trades and like the flexibility to mix sloppy or stiff depending on the surface. jointing compound, easy fill, easy sand, anything like that. applied with a nice long plasterers trowel and sanded back. the only premixed stuff i find is any good is taping and jointing compound, such as the stuff made by ‘aimes’

a hot toddy must have fresh ginger and cloves whatever else is in it.

however, i have found that ‘the cure’ is – a whole bulb of garlic crushed into a paste and left for 20 mins for enzyme action to take place. add olive oil to make it palatable. eat a small teaspoon at least 3 times a day, more if you can cope with the stink.

springtime on gower

edit. i give up, ive never been able to put pic on here 😳

there are people who look after THE PEOPLE YOU CARE ABOUT MOST in this world, when they are at their MOST VULNERABLE. they run into burning buildings, make decisions on medicine, scrape you up off the road, stop a drunk **** caving your head in, hold your hand when you’re scared-for-your-life, or that of your wife/husband/mother/father/brother/sister/!child! they wipe your ass when you have shit yourself, talk to you when there is no-one else, they look after your nan when she doesn’t remember who you are anymore. they wipe your sick off your skin and tell you its ok on a daily basis for christ’s sake

……… and we pay them less per hr than a **** checkout worker in aldi.

what in god’s name has led us to this point?
how can anyone possibly be arguing they are not worth their wages let alone a massive raise?
all of them, not just the doctors but the firemen, nurses, carers, front line police, paramedics all of these front line staff who do so much for less than i pay my bloody labourer!
what is wrong with you people?