Just bought that one, afraid it’s going back after one day.
I have to switch TV to a different input and then back to the HDMI for the unit to be recognised every time I switch it on. After googling, it appears the Humax can suffer ‘HDMI handshake’ problems, particularly with Sony TV’s. Mine’s a Toshiba that doesn’t have a problem with anything else that’s been connected. Also, it won’t output 1080p to my TV, even though the input broadcast says it’s 1080p [BBC HD – Africa] and the Humax has a setting for 1080p. No idea if this makes a jot of difference, but annoying at that price. Just my luck.
I’ll probably try to pick up a cheap model and wait to see how the youview version get’s on – after reading reviews, it seems to be a bit flaky at the moment .

Don’t know about CT100, but the home made cable looks more ‘substantial’ [Old school brown sleeving] than the new shop bought lead.
This is only outlet running off the aerial.
Will check out the link.
Ta.

Edit:
Just compared home made cable with shop bought. Home made has bare metal plugs, shop bought has plastic over moulded. When I touch the metal body of plugs on home made cable the picture signal quality changes – this is on both ends, digi box and wall socket. I can’t touch any metal on the shop bought plug at the wall socket and touching the over moulding does nothing. If I touch the accessible metal part at the digi box end the signal quality changes.
If I rotate and slightly side load the digi box connection on both leads the signal quality varies.

Thanks. I initially made a new ‘home made’ cable, had the same issues, so went out and bought a ready made one [albeit a ‘cheap’ one] in case I’d got it wrong.

If it is an earth issue, any ideas where to look?

…he seems a lot more mentally robust.

Were does it say that it’s desirable for kids to be ‘mentally robust’. What age is best to acquire this robustness and how robust do they need to be?
Not cry at the beginning of ‘Up’? Is lump in throat allowed? 🙂

Where there’s blame, there’s a claim. 😉

If you have so much time on your hands that you are prepared to price check an item that you are not even interested in, can I suggest that you get something to occupy yourself, like a life!

Woody,
Thanks for taking the time out of your exciting life to have another think about this issue and type that out.

Made me smile on a dull day. .

I don’t think you can dictate what valuer the buyer uses. I thought that was governed by the buyer’s lender.

Not what you want to hear, but the buyer would be daft not to use this lower valuation to knock you down a bit, especially in today’s market. It could depend on who wants the sale/purchase more.

Put yourself in their shoes. Someone is telling them that they are overpaying for your house.

Yes they are.

Re the £1k cheque. This might not be the ********, it could be the builder. When we bought a new build we had to pay a not returnable deposit to the builder. When we queried/objected to this, we were told by the builder – no deposit, no house, so had to decided whether we wanted it.
Mate has just bought a new house and he had to pay the same.

Take cash in all coin denominations in case they operate an exact price system and don’t take cards. 🙂

Hels, I bet you are one of these old folks with a money belt bought from the Sunday Express classifieds full of coppers and twenty pence pieces because you think they are a nice shape secreted under your tank top. 🙂

I can just imagine the design review of the system:
Callum, what happens if a tourist from out of town arrives after the terminal has shut at 10:00am, doesn’t know about the exact fare rule and is unfamiliar with the area?
Frasier, I don’t care!
Ok Callum, I’ll sign that off.
🙂

It is obviously not just Edinburgh, but to my shame I don’t use public transport much and when I do it’s the train where I’ve always been able to pay with a card either on the train or via a machine so it never crossed my mind that they wouldn’t be able to split a tenner.
What does make me wonder is what the people designing the ‘system’ are thinking about and who they are serving.

I have a bag of change in the car for car parks etc but had used this up at Mabie yesterday – £3. Cleaned me out.

Thanks for parking advice. Will try that next time.

Thanks all.
mda has found what I was looking for. (I was trying to do it from within navigation instead of maps). Ta.

I was happy with SS for years – always a bit bemused how much higher the bill was than the advertised offer when I went for a few extras [thinner lenses] – but no problems. Then a couple of years ago I had a problem with some lenses, and to cut a long story short they weren’t interested in helping and just said ‘we can’t help you, here’s your money back, goodbye’. Thus I was thrown into the hands of an independent.

The difference in service was obvious, and the cost was about 10% more. The optician said the SS prescription was OK, but the biggest eye opener was the quality of the optics – I think it was essilor – I’d pay that extra 10% for the clarity anytime.
Since then I have seen the benefits of an independent – re-glazing old frames, ordering frames in for me to try, and my first venture into varifocals [the difference between manufacturers varifocals also surprised me – I tried 3!].
I’m sure there are good and bad SS and independents*, but I’m glad SS kicked me out.

* I did have bad service from a different independent as I wanted to buy the frames from them but have them glazed at the independent above. They were really unhelpful about doing any ringing and ordering [they were the only retailer in the area of the make/style I wanted] as I wasn’t a ‘patient’.

Tony Martin abandons Tour

Cav on Twitter:
“My hotel room for the rest day has 1 electrical socket & a plastic chair. I shall say no more on the matter.”

I’ll bet Wiggo has 2 sockets minimum.
Froome – who knows?

How many sockets do you think you’d need?

Oakfield House – 5 min walk outside main part of village.

Just to share my experiences with ‘lumps down there’.
I had a lump where the top of your thigh meets the side of the scrotum, right in the crevice. It came and went on 2 week on/2 week off cycles.
It started as a lump then seemed to elongate before going.
Riding the bike made it worse or made it reappear after I thought it had cleared up. I lived with it for a few months then during one spell I couldn’t sit down, so went to the doctors. He diagnosed a ‘fungal’ infection and prescribed thrush cream!! It disappeared after 2 weeks as normal so went for a bike ride and it flared up the day after. Back to doctors, this time it was a bacterial infection so was given penicillin. Again went after 2 weeks, but I kept of the bike and it came back within 2 weeks.
Back to doctors and he was honest enough to say he didn’t know what to do. He gave me some steroid cream, which I googled and it said don’t use to reduce swelling without something to tackle the cause of swelling, but what the hell surely doctors know best. Disappeared after 2 weeks then came back, as sore as ever, without me having been on the bike.
Back to doctors but my usual GP was on holiday so took pot luck. Now it is a lump not a skin infection and I got referred to a ‘lumps and bumps’ clinic. As soon as consultant saw it she diagnosed an ‘infected sinus’ and would take it out, but couldn’t operate immediately as it was infected. Prescribed antibiotics.
[Also said that one thing that shouldn’t have been used was the steroid cream!!]

Now there is another long story on how the surgeon changed from the one who saw me initially to the one who stood over me with a knife [local anaesthetic] and had different ideas of the problem as the lump had almost gone after the antibiotics [he wanted, in his words to ‘put a camera up my back passage’], but I’ll skip that adventure.

Anyway he went in and took out what he thought were infected sebaceous cysts. 6 stitches.

I got the lab results from my GP and was told they were epidermal cysts that had become infected and haemorrhaged with the infection travelling along sinuses . The fact that they had become infected and it had travelled made the surgery harder as instead of ‘popping’ the cyst out they had to guess how much extra tissue to take out and can’t be sure they got it all so it may came back.

The doctor said that there is a lot of bacteria, etc in this area and the rubbing seen during cycling can accelerate or promote it getting into the skin.

I tried cycling a month after the op but was sore after half an hour so left it another couple of weeks, it was better then, but it was many months before that side stopped feeling ‘different’ when I cycled. Good news is that it’s not come back.

Hope my experiences help, maybe help to know what questions to ask.

Warren Mitchell – Alf Garnett
Wifred Brambell – Steptoe

They’re all at it!!
Who is next?

We camped here a few years ago. It was fine then – showers and toilets spotless. No midges when we went but it was out of season – might suffer from them as there was some marshy nature reserve alongside – with water buffalo!!
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Are the ‘road’ calipers smaller/lighter or just the same but made for road levers?

So by sticking to my word I deprived myself of £2500.

You, sir, are mad.

Your word, sir, is obviously not to be trusted.

Margin Walker – Member

……… His art arguments were laughable and naive.

🙂

Non electrician here, but as a user I’ve experienced this with every dimmer switch I’ve fitted. Some louder than others, and always no buzz when on full. I assumed it’s ‘the electronics’ in there.
It may be that there are better makes than others. I’d like to know if there is a solution to this so hopefully some experts will be along shortly.

Edit: Only ever used the rotary type.

Captain ‘Chapeau Mark’ Flasheart, I know he said some unpleasant and unforgivable things about you on twitter, but on this, and the light bulb thread, you come across as trying way too hard. Let him go. Really.

All he ever wanted was to be granted an audience with you over a pint. It could have been so different. You could have been besties.

Hoppy tones and unsurprisingly bitter.

It’s the pint that thinks it’s a quart 😀

…. or was that something else?

What about an award for the poster who in the last year most frequently mentioned, dropped hints, inferred, or otherwise suggested that they had flown abroad in one of those fancy aeroplanes as part of their oh so exciting job.

Ask not what STW has done for you – ask what you have done for STW. 🙂

Some good info. Thanks.

The matter is a transaction which has gone sour, I was the purchaser, they were the seller. A ‘fee’ was payable by me if the deal went sour, except if they were at fault – the word ‘unreasonable’ was used in the agreement. I honestly think they have been unreasonable, they think they haven’t – solicitors aren’t giving guidance, so it appears that small claims is the only way to settle it. They don’t appear to be interested in negotiating.
I accept that I may be told my expectations of reasonableness are to high – this is what I thought our respective solicitors would decide, but it didn’t work out like that.
Plus, the agreement started out flawed, was ‘clarified’ during the process and the sellers are now not recognising the later ‘clarifications’. You couldn’t make it up.

It’s not that I feel I owe something, more that I accept I could lose as it’s not a cut and dry, yes or no, situation.

It sounds like there are no lasting effects if I were to lose and pay up, so the issues toys19 raises need thinking about, plus the time and effort I’ll have to put in getting my ‘defence’ together.

Thanks again.

If the house is over a hundred years old, and it’s still there, what are you looking for?

Confirmation that there is no damp rising through the floors. I don’t want to live/sleep in a damp room and there is no evidence of a membrane having been fitted, and remedial work could be expensive and disruptive.
Would you object to the request if selling?

iTunes – I had one revision that wouldn’t recognise my ipods!!!
I’ve had to restore the ipods and reload all my music more times than I can remember due to iTunes not wanting to play.
Try using apple help pages when you have an issue. The not recognising ipods issue advice is to reload your operating system even though the PC recognised I’d plugged the in ipod and every other USB device you could care to think of.

+1 for Inventor – when it works it’s fantastic, but when it doesn’t like something – oh boy!!
Also, Advitium.

There were no bad smells, but noticed those plug in air fresheners in a couple of rooms.
There was no visual signs of damp and the rooms are nicely and newly decorated as they haven’t been in the house long.

Will talk to surveyor to see if they can check for damp through carpet with the damp meter they use.
I think they are upset that we’ve asked them if the floors were damp, and they said no, but are now wanting to verify.
House buying and selling seems to bring out strange emotions in people.

[We were ordered out of one house during a viewing when, during general chatting as we were going round the house, we mentioned that we were going to look at another house later that day – bizarre]

iTunes

Anyone?

Very timely – November is Will Aid month.
We had ours done last year.
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Watch out for a pink spot or ‘hue’ in the middle of still and video pictures, mainly on indoor pictures. I had this on a couple of S2’s that had to go back, other than that, a cracking phone, but I haven’t used a Sensation to compare it with.