That sounds like good news unless your insurance had already paid out?

How did the police deal with the scum?

I have some jeans that have twisted legs that ‘anticipate my next move’. How do they do that when I don’t know what I am going to do!!

Bucket boss… Still going strong after 8 years. EBay is good for them as UK importers are few and far between.

Used to do many jobs needing BT’s ‘help’ we always assigned it to the newest guy on the team to suck up their incompetence.

They assign jobs to their engineers with such poor information it makes them look stupid aswell when they are the good guys.

Grohe thermostatic mixer. Expensive but worth the lack of hassle once fitted. 8 years here, no issues.

Have a lot of knowledge of this situation from 7 years in this line of work, which LA are you moving to?

There is a lot of BS advice handed around that needs to be ignored, I know what I am on about having just won an appeal for my nephew in the local impossible to get into school following their location.

I presume by the big hill you mean Ainley Top?

If so go a different way as the hill is horrible and the traffic is dangerous.

Have used Endura Hummvee lite shorts on hot days and found them less sweaty.

Mr Woppit you are a co*k

Few issues here on my otherwise faultless Chromebase.

Got one in the spares box,used, but you can have it for £14 posted

If you look in the trello powerups then you can get ‘card aging’ so they start looking older the longer they have been in lists.

Big Trello user here, have got the whole school support team driven by it.

Spam?

As a kid I watched Lemond win the TDF in 1989 and my attachment to cycling started. I also watched him ask difficult questions to Lance and initially wondered if he was bitter and where he was going with his PR. As time went by I wanted his suspicions to be proved and finally this has happened.

It is a shame that he was ruined by Lance and Trek but good to see that his humour and good nature has not been damaged. He is on my list of people with true integrity and has stood up for what he believed was right, now lets see him give Lance that that kicking.

+1 for trello particularly if you have to assign work or tasks to people. Android even has a widget to make it really quick to access and attach photos to help with understanding. I use it to run site staff and they love it as it is so simple to use on a phone or PC and is free.

Vermiculite board. It is light, brittle and hard to find at a good price

I have two XS Specialized Hardrocks for my 10 year old daughter and the other for my 9 year old son. I have left my daughters unchanged but have fitted narrower bars to my sons.

Initially both were nervous of a ‘big’ bike having been on 20 inch Hotrocks before but they have quickly taken to it and the seats are starting to creep up now with their extra confidence and growth.

It is so much easier all now being on the same wheel size, but are my children missing out on the “trails coming alive”?

I built my own PC as I figured it can’t be that difficult, did it all for less than £200, though it will depend a lot on your spec, just like bikes I suppose.

I got all my stuff from CCL, all you will need to do it check that the components are compatible, just ask as I did, most are keen to help. It will take you longer to install the software than build it.

This is easy.

As part of the Landlord and Tennancy act 1985 section 11 the landlord has certain obligations. Section B will help you but is more to do with safety but part C you can win with as it is seen as essential to provide space and water heating.

(b)to keep in repair and proper working order the installations in the dwelling-house for the supply of water, gas and electricity and for sanitation (including basins, sinks, baths and sanitary conveniences, but not other fixtures, fittings and appliances for making use of the supply of water, gas or electricity), and
(c)to keep in repair and proper working order the installations in the dwelling-house for space heating and heating water.

Do not withhold rent but do report it to the landlord again who is allowed a ‘reasonable’ time to fix the problem (baby and winter may make this a short time). Then seek to get money back via rent abaitment.

Also if you rented the place with hot running water that is what you expect to have, it will have been part of you decision to accept the place. No one would rent a place with no hot running water.

Mate or not I would be making a large issue for him.

With it being at the top of the stairs the heat will obviously move towards it. There is a loft hatch (insulated) and the sunpipe in the landing ceiling but no noticible heat loss.

The loft does have 300mm of insulation and my combined gas & and elec bill is £77/mth and thanks to the wood stove I am in credit despite the poor weather, so I would have noticed if it was cold.

With is being sealed at each end rapid heat loss would not be possible anyway. Bite the bullet, get it fitted.

I found a wallet in a motorway services on the way home from a biking weekend, it was there just as I got out of the car. I took it home and spent a bit of time finding him on the internet and eventually from the info (it was rammed with cards and ID) in the wallet got his phone number.

So, I rang him up to let him know that I had his wallet and how did he want me to get it back to him? He was so shocked, he was not even aware he had lost it. I took my number and put the phone down.

20 mins later he calls back to apologise for being off with me but in his words “people don’t do this sort of thing”.

We met up near my house a few days later and he pulled all the money out of his wallet and gave it to me (about £70), I tried to explain that this was too much but he would have none of it.

The wife and I han a nice ‘free’ meal that night.

Would do it again, not for the money but to stop someone going through the hassle of replacing stuff.

I had a 3 bed semi which I extended to the side to make it bigger, this meant I lost the window that gave daylight to the landing at the top of the stairs. I fitted a rigid sunpipe from Monodraught. It also has a light in this one so the area only has one diffuser/light.

It is very good at delivering daylight. I fitted it myself, the hardest bits are fitting the top dome in the roof and getting the rigid pipes to the correct lengths and to fit together.

Well worth the £250 ish I think I paid for it 7 years ago.

As this is STW, reduce your energy bills by fitting a wood burning stove. Our usage is significantly down since installing one, we now only use gas CH at the start of any cold day.

My DD to EDF is £86 for gas & elec, 5 bed house, 2 adults & 3 kids.

It is helped a lot by being well insulated and my obsessiveness over air tightness when extending the house.

I got mine from justridingalong.com and got a great price on a full wheel build. Email him for a quote even if the combination is not on the website.

I have 3 kids (8, 6 and 2) and a wife who does not know how a tent goes up so went with a vango tunnel tent rather than the dome versions. It is an 8 man one so we can all fit in and stand up. Very easy to put up and it is too easy to get wrong. You get a bigger new tent for your money with Outwell but many believe other tents are of slightly better quality.

Hardest thing is getting it all back in the bag at the end of the weekend.