The Cardiff accident was a swing barrier, that had not been secured and swung into the road due to the wind, the barrier penetrated the passenger side of the windscreen and struck the driver. Asda were found negligent for leaving the swing barrier unlocked, and had also had previous incidents with the same barriers.

The Cases you are referring to are relatively old, new sentencing guidelines were brought in, in 2018. The fines are now based on company turnover, and are dependent on whether the defendant pleads Guilty or decides to defend themselves. Lots more details are available online.

https://www.shponline.co.uk/legislation-and-guidance/how-are-sentencing-guidelines-determined/

Blaupunkt VW Factory Fit Sat Nav in T6 Transporter.

Buffalo Smock is my default winter dog walking coat, predominantly for the hand warming front pocket, that doubles as a stash for balls, leads etc.

You’ve probably seen this one doing the rounds….

https://www.sar-products.com/about-us/

https://www.aiguillealpine.co.uk/

https://www.altberg.co.uk/

They are online via Zoom at the moment. I was delivering other work related training to a Speed Awareness Instructor the other day and he was telling me they are shorter as well (2 Hours I think). He’s getting wound up as people are dialling in still in their PJ’s with a beer or a glass of wine in hand, which isn’t exactly in agreement with the Road Safety Message he’s teaching!

https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/crime/police-find-couple-state-undress-car-near-m62-motorway-3043312

Mine have stayed the same price, at the moment. I went last week and my Hygienist had to don additional PPE to perform a high pressure water descale, which is deemed a high risk procedure, compared to the manual descale she started off with, so I wouldn’t be surprised if costs go up soon, for all the additional PPE / Decontamination costs incurred.

Speak with Ty-Mawr Lime in South Wales or visit their website http://www.lime.org.uk , they can give you advice, and supply the traditionally mixed lime products. We have used their products on our recent renovation of an old school dating back to 1786.

We are repointing a stone house in Lime, takes a while if doing it yourself as you can’t work at temperatures below 5oC, so realistically you are limited to April – September.

Ty-Mawr showed me a horror show of a guy who pulled cement render off an old cottage and the gable end fell off, as the cement was too strong, I think he’d gone at it with SDS Chisel. Slow and steady with hand tools is the approach you need.

No worries – I forget as I’m old enough to have a 7.5T entitlement and Trailer permissions. Hope you get it sorted.

Did have to pre-warn the nice lady in the Halifax Home Insurance call centre, before I insured a Cove Handjob once 😀

We just gave up and went back to the 200 year old stone floors, dry off in front of the log burner and sweep up later!

Rent a car trailer from Indespension and a mate with a tow car/ van? May work out a cheaper option, they quote £60 for a day rental.

Sales guy I used to work with got arrested on arrival in the USA, due to an INTERPOL marker on his passport, when he went on a business trip. This was put on by the Swiss government for an unpaid motoring fine!

Big Penny Washers sorted this on an old car I had for the exhaust heat shield.

Loose stuff can also be fixed with Ball Lock Stainless Steel Cable Ties, which don’t corrode or melt in the vicinity of the exhaust, ideally you need the tensioning tool to do a good job of really tightening them, but you can pull them tight with locking pliers. They sell them at Toolstation.

We’ve used a few at Calder Valley Search & Rescue Team. BT My Donate, Wonderful and Just Giving, had the same problem with commissions creeping up. We are now using Givey. You can have a look below:

https://www.givey.com/caldervalleysearchandrescueteam

Joined 2 houses together last year, and removed services from one of them. Gas was reasonable – I stripped back to the meter, and Northern Gas Networks charged about £450 to remove the meter, and dig the pipe out of the ground and capped it off outside.

Electric different matter, Northern Powergrid charged £700 to do a 10 minute job, got £100 when I complained, but literally, an above ground supply so, pulled the fuse, took 2 crimps off, rejoined the cables to my neighbours house, fitted some heat shrink sleeve and placed a waterproof plastic cover over the top!

To quote an old IT Manager…HP are the drug dealers of the Printer world, lure you in with a good deal, and leave you addicted to expensive toners for the rest of your life! I have a colour HP laser and do use genuine cartridges, I believe HP put a chip in their cartridges, and the reused, and refurbished stop the Digital display working, although they will still print. On a funny note…I got my printer through my wife’s IT contacts – cheaper than standard RRP, but default set in Hungarian…even a hard reset didn’t sort it, so on Google Translate working out each menu, until I could set up English!

I’ve been working on my stone house built in 1786, stripped back to stone inside, currently removing cement pointing outside and replaced with Lime Mortar, pre-mixed from Ty-Mawr Lime in Wales. Internal walls have been replastered in Lime Plaster from Ty-Mawr which is also ready mixed. If the walls are very wet you may need to let them dry before replastering, otherwise you can get salt migration when you decorate, we have used clay based breathable paint, but traditional lime wash with pigment is the authentic method. As for the safety aspect I went on a course at Ty-Mawr, I’ve done my own pointing which is relatively safe, safety glasses and some nitriles under your builders gloves, just take care when beating the pointing with a churn brush, as the sand with lime dust, can get in your eyes if you are not down-wind. The plaster is a bit wetter so more care needed, I have had a plasterer doing that though, a small thermos flask of lukewarm water to wash out the eyes immediately is recommended by Ty-mawr. Also top tip, don’t work with lime below 5oC and outside its recommended only to work between April-September, as the frost will get it if you work at any other time.

I got Uniformed Services Paramedic / Teaching and Education, which is not too far off for me…

I work as an Industrial Health and Safety Trainer for Construction and Manufacturing sectors & as an Outdoor First Aid Instructor. In my spare time I volunteer for my local Mountain Team, which includes Swiftwater Rescue for flooding incidents.

So pretty accurate for me.

One of my customers in Oldham (Engineering) got large orders for B&Q (Sanitiser Units) Greggs, Wetherspoons and Subway (Screens).

Be careful, which one you choose, it needs to be on the HMRC list to be Tax efficient. Loads of people have got stung by picking the Ranger Raptor, and it’s payload is only about 600kg and doesn’t qualify. The Wildtrack is OK.

I am a Health and Safety Trainer – the legislation I recommend you use is as listed below, speak with your employer first and outline your concerns, and give them chance to remedy the problem. If repairs are required to the electrical items they need to be undertaken by a qualified electrician, and the PAT test repeated. If the employer refuses to do anything and is making you use the equipment you can report your concerns to the Health and Safety Executive, online or via phone. http://www.hse.gov.uk.

Primary Legislation is The Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974

Section 2 General duties of employers to their employees

(1)It shall be the duty of every employer to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health, safety and welfare at work of all his employees.

(2)Without prejudice to the generality of an employer’s duty under the preceding subsection, the matters to which that duty extends include in particular—

(a)the provision and maintenance of plant and systems of work that are, so far as is reasonably practicable, safe and without risks to health;

(b)arrangements for ensuring, so far as is reasonably practicable, safety and absence of risks to health in connection with the use, handling, storage and transport of articles and substances;

(c)the provision of such information, instruction, training and supervision as is necessary to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health and safety at work of his employees;

(d)so far as is reasonably practicable as regards any place of work under the employer’s control, the maintenance of it in a condition that is safe and without risks to health and the provision and maintenance of means of access to and egress from it that are safe and without such risks;

(e)the provision and maintenance of a working environment for his employees that is, so far as is reasonably practicable, safe, without risks to health, and adequate as regards facilities and arrangements for their welfare at work.

Secondary Legislation that could be used:

Provision and Use of Work Equipment 1998

Reg 4
Suitability of work equipment

4.—(1) Every employer shall ensure that work equipment is so constructed or adapted as to be suitable for the purpose for which it is used or provided.

(2) In selecting work equipment, every employer shall have regard to the working conditions and to the risks to the health and safety of persons which exist in the premises or undertaking in which that work equipment is to be used and any additional risk posed by the use of that work equipment.

(3) Every employer shall ensure that work equipment is used only for operations for which, and under conditions for which, it is suitable.

(4) In this regulation “suitable” means suitable in any respect which it is reasonably foreseeable will affect the health or safety of any person.

Reg 6. Inspection

(2) Every employer shall ensure that work equipment exposed to conditions causing deterioration which is liable to result in dangerous situations is inspected—

(a)at suitable intervals; and

(b)each time that exceptional circumstances which are liable to jeopardise the safety of the work equipment have occurred,

to ensure that health and safety conditions are maintained and that any deterioration can be detected and remedied in good time.

We have 3 around Warley, top end of the Calder Valley, that I see occasionally when walking my dog, sometimes visit the neighbours garden to steal his pears!

Anyone else remember the spring loaded lamp that pulled down from the ceiling, to illuminate your food from 30cm height? And Serving Hatches to pass the food from the kitchen!

My memories of the Late 70’s / Early 80’s
Birds Trifle
Greens Creme Caramel
Spam Fritters
Cheap Co-op Jelly – even better if you nicked a concentrated packet from the cupboard and ate it, especially black cherry!
Vesta Chow Mien with Crispy Noodles
Fletchers Sliced White Bread from a Van that came to my Grandma’s house in Sheffield.
Ben Shaws Golden Lemonade (At Grandmas)
Ben Shaws Dandelion and Burdock (Ditto)
Jones Cherryade (Nottingham my home town)
Piccalilli
Silverskin Pickled Onions – and the spring loaded fork to try and spear them.
Cheese and Pineapple Hedgehogs at Kids Parties
Batenburg Cake
Celery in a Jug with salt
Yorkshire Platter plate – Sliced Egg / Beetroot / Longley Farm Cottage Cheese (Thankfully I can still get this!)
Super Sour and Fireball Gobstoppers (Always a school favourite, and you got done if you were caught with the chewing gum afterwards)
Sherbet Dib-Dab
Fizz Bombs
Whimpy (Pork Bender) Burgers (Posh Fast Food with cutlery!)
Ordering a McDonalds Banana Milkshake in 1981 on a day trip to London and my mum sending it back as it was full of ice cream and it will be bad for his stomach!

I have put the word out on Twitter to see if anyone else has a link between CRC Scam and Play.com.

I got the email today as well. I accidentally clicked the link as my wife has just left me and has been buying stuff online before she buggered off. Spent most of the afternoon running antivirus to get it off! I was a victim of the CRC scam with the vouchers as well! AVG antivirus remove if for me!

I did the Ring road in 2008 in my VW Campervan, took the bikes as well and rode some of the F Grade 4×4 only roads. Not as expensive as you think, we were paying about 112p/L for Diesel, and at home it was about 130p/L in Scotland at the time. Like anywhere else, buy your food in the Supermarkets and its faily reasonable. Fresh stuff is expensive (fruit & veg) and generally not that “fresh” all imported. If you get hot under the collar about food miles, don’t read the labels food imported from USA on West coast, even some from Australia.

The South Coast was the best in my opinion and the North is nice for activities such as Whale Watching at Husivik (which is also home to the Penis Museum..every mammals penis..and 2 American men on the waiting list when they die..one has a plaster cast on show already!)

Will definately go back again soon, we sailed on Symril Line Ferry from Scrabster, Scotland (£1000 return with Cabin and VW Camper) which included 1/2 day in Bergen, Norway and 3 Nights on the Faroe Islands on the way back (which are also worth visiting).

I have heard it is cheaper at the moment since the economy went belly up.

’86 Nova 1.0L Saloon

(once describe by Clarkson as an Elephant on a unicycle) rubbish in the wet. Written off – hit by drunk driver.

’89 Nova 1.2L Saloon – Better had OHC engine, that worked in the rain!

’94 Corsa 1.2 – Nice drive, horrible colour Purple..like the anodised MTB parts and pertex tops of this era!

’99 Laguna 1.6 Sport – Comfy but expensive to maintain, and depreciated £3k in one year of ownership!

01′ Focus 1.8 Zetec – Nice and pretty fast for a Diesel.

02′ Focus 1.8 Non Zetec – smoke billowing slow pile of c@*p!

03′ Mazda6 2.0TD – Fun to drive, poor MPG – Ford TD engine.

52′ Astravan x 3 – Fastest small vans on the road, fun blasts back up North on the M1 at 3am, ask anyone who works on the railways. So much fun I bought one for myself 1.7TD Isuzu engine, 650miles on 50L diesel. Good for the bikes as well.

55′ VW T5 2.5 Campervan – Great, comfy get away from it all van, expensive to run and not the most reliable – New Oil Cooler / Water Pump. But being to a lot of places in mine for MTB fun Iceland, Faroe Islands, Slovenia, Spain, France, Switzerland & Italy, also good for bike events, 2008 Polaris in the Lakes 3″ Rain – Night Heater on Dry kit for the Sunday 🙂

What’s the difference between a Microwave and George Michael? A Microwave stops when you open the door!

Me

1999 Specialized Rockhopper Comp – rebuilt several times with upgraded parts. Still riding as a commuter singlespeed!

2009 On-One 456 Inbred

2011 – Lynskey Ridgeline SS (In build stage still, saving up for parts!)

Wife

2004 Specialised Rockhopper Pro (Frame cracked on HT)

2008 Cove Handjob (which she is too embarrased to say on the phone to the Insurers..so I have to do it!)

Mine is in Blue, a few pictures of it on my Twitter @RichardOfTod. XT Group set, Hope and Easton finishing kit and Mavic717s on Hope ProII Hubs. Matches my VW van which is also blue!