What were the actual levels, and how did they compare with the statutory minimum? If it’s a long way down, why worry?
So long as they don’t suck on any lead paint they’ll be fine. That’s assuming you’re OK, having been brought up before the days of bottled water.

Aleigh? Not heard from her for years. What time on 23rd ?

Both my parents’ house and the one I live in used to have air-raid shelters in the garden, solid brick & concrete things. The closest hits to us here (Bristol) are all of 100 yards away, so this one saw use. When we took it down we found a live 303 bullet, which is still kicking around somewhere in a drawer.

There was also a dessicated rat corpse. We threw that away.

No need to build one, Cleator Moor is there already

Join the club. I’ve been looking for about 3 months – but as a technically competent software / services salesman I seem to fall between two stools. I should have stayed on the tech side. Oh well, the mortgage is nearly paid off now.

Yes the app (SDMove) installs on my phone, which is bog standard and not fiddled with.
What’s S2E, geordie?

There’s an app called SD move which allows you to move apps to the SD card. There is one in the Desire, but the standard is only 4GB. It’ll take 16GB, I think

My Desire is so stuffed full that I’m going to have to wipe it completely soon.

Wm Randolph Hearst the newspaper owner died years ago.
They carried him away in a hearse.

Not an office, but…
My first proper job after uni was in a research pilot plant in Reading, just behind the Bell. The plant operated 24hrs, so lunch break for nightshift tended to be very liquid. We had a sofa in the stock room, which was was used to entertain ladies we’d met in the pub at closing time.

It was hot in there, with lots of steam, so we frequently worked in shorts. One very hairy lad slept on shift, across a bench.
Until we set his leg hair on fire. It stank.

Then there were the fork-lift truck races….
And races over nitrogen tri-iodide crystals we’d brewed up in the lab. It’s a detonating explosive, which makes a hell of a bang when hit. We could leave it on the floor in solution, so the dayshift would come in when it was drying.

I can’t think why they shut the site down.

Kona Major 1 ?

BtoB or BtoC ?
It makes a big difference.
If it’s BtoB, yes, it’s vital (and I’m very good at it)
How else do you genreate leads?

Well it’s not making money, it saves you money. The insurance company offers you much lower premiums – that’s the whole point.

Not necessarily so.
If the monitoring shows that you’re not the good driver you think you are, then your premiums will go up up up. They’ll know your speeds, locations, times you travel, all of which may lead them to conclude after a few months that you are a high-risk driver.

I’ll ask my dad if he knows where they are, not that he’d recognise the place after 66 years.

I lost am 8mm allen key adaptor when faffing around in Leigh Woods. I couldn’t find it for baggery.
Next week, I paused at the same spot & there it was winking at me from some moss.

I changed my name by statutory declaration many years ago. It was cheap & easy.It seems to have worked.

You could get a tablet with that spec for that sort of money in a pub that I know of.
Otherwise, would the moon on a stick work?
😉

If you have a turntable already, then a cable-USB connector / converter should work – I bought one from Alddi for a tenner or so.
It’s a Tevion Music/Audio converter according tothe box.

Monbiot frequently talks sense & does listen to evidence, hence his changed opinions on windfarms (now neutral / against) & nuclear power (now pro). At least he had the guts to apologise to McAlpine immediately, no hanging about.

All over Europe essential wildlife habitats are destroyed – often on agriculturally worthless land – simply to expand the area eligible for subsidies.

They don’t have set-a-side land as whole fields like before but instead they now get payments for countryside stewardship schemes. So again the opposite of what Monbiot claims.

He’s right. In many cases planting the right crop on previously untilled land can get good subsidies. Stewarship is something different again.

Try a number of bikes to see which feels right. Have you any mates’ bikes you can also try?

I’m 5’9″ and ride a 16″ frame, unless you’ve legs up to your armpits I’d say a 20″ is WAY too big. What’s your leg length?

If it weren’t for the traffic they’d be great: lower CoG so more stable, less air resistance so faster, better & more efficient pedalling position.
That’s why they aren’t allowied in cycle competitions, they’d blow anything else off the road.

But in traffic their low profile is a liability, you’re more likely to get hit. They’re also longer wheelbase, so less manoeuvreable.

Pfft.
32:20 works for me.
Overweight, unfit, 59 and 3/4.

Mount Gay Barbados rum.
Neat

Don’t get her a collection of singles.
Let it Bleed, Beggar’s Banquet, Main Street, Goat’s Head Soup, It’s Only RocknRoll are excellent albums.
The Stones went off in about 1983, anything before then should be fine.

jon, zilog’s right.
We may not be interested in the product for ourselves, but possibly for grannies / aunties etc.
And there will be other people who read about this slip-up that might buy the album.

So the uplift in sales may well happen. Time will tell.
This is viral marketing well one.

‘Tiz in Leigh Woods, Bristol.
Lovely for an afternoon pootle

Why not speak to your landlord if you’re thinking of buying?
He might accept a lowball offer if it saves him having to have the place vacant for a number of months while he sells it. If you know what similar properties have gone for you can negotiate. Estate agents tend to estimate high values to get the vendor’s business.
FWIW, I reckon that £130k is about normal for a £600-£650 /m property.

The Atlas range is great, but do try to stay overnight.
In the other direction, Essaouria on the coast is fab. Both are taxi / bus rides away. we paid about £100 from Atlas to Coast, 3 years ago. It gave us an extra day holiday…

and of course if you’re into young boys or goats, no-one will call you nasty names, they’ll just charge double.

I’ll second the use of contacts – they gets rid of the problem entirely

if the nut on t’other en is spinning, the axle’s turning. Make sure that the broken end is held still, too.

Undo the knurled nut at the other end of the axle? Pliers should be able to grip it.

I’d go for 21.5 / 22 for ease of use.

Meths has got methanol in it.
That makes you blind – as well as sick and pissed. It’s converted to formalin in your body.

The 18650 needs an extension tube to make the torch barrel longer, according to one of the ebay ads.

and, what are the Aldi supplies like? Have they run out already?

Ashton Press is pretty good on draught, as is Bath Ales’ Bounder. I tend to stick to cider in pubs – Aspalls and Stowford Press are also acceptable. Blackthorn isn’t.

Whatever happened to Woodpecker? It was the heart of my under-age drinking in the late 60s.

Any one want a 286 or 386 laptop. I think they’re only 20 years old. The 386 has a massive 30MB (yes, MB) hard drive…

(Hijack!)
Henry, do you guys still want donations of frames, wheels, etc ??

My daughter lived there for a year and coped quite well, living in Broughton. She bought a car after a while, though.
Ride with Nmbc Mtb (facebook page) – Northfield Mountain bike club. Regular runs, they’ll show you around.

Get up 2 hours earlier.
Vindaloo & coffee for breakfast,
Poo before 8

I have an old model blue dragon Kaff frame & forks to get rid of.
17″ / small-medium.
Anyone interested?

Skipton: if I could move, it would be there.
Great town, good communications, fantastic for the dales.
Do it