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Dean Lofthouse

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  1. I spent a bit of time in Zandvoort Holland and while I was out on the town, I felt safe, the only hint of hooliganism I saw was two loud mouth brits sporting union jack shorts walking down the high street carrying a crate of beer between them singing out loud I hate brits abroad
  2. Brilliant innit, good feeling knowing you yourself have grown them They are showing vigorous growth now The 160ft hedge these are destined for will hopefully still be around when I have long gone
  3. Definately !! Roughly description.. You cannot fully get the moisture out of the log, so when it burns it turns to steam. This steam gets contaminated with tar or sap and transports the tar up the flue. Steam condenses on cold surfaces leaving behind tar, if you have a big stone wide open unlined flue, it takes a lot to heat up the flue so that the steam doesn't condense and leave behind tar and you will never get the upper portion of the flue to heat up sufficeintly to prevent condensation. If you line your flue with a narrow steel flue, it will heat up very quickly for it's full length and be easy to sweep. If you then use an insulated liner it will take very little heating up and will stay clean for longer. There is also a specail lightweight insulating aggragate you can pour down your chimney down the sides of your liner to fill and insulate the void around it to improve the efficency of your existing liner. Again, it boils down to efficiency of the system My head hurts now
  4. Mind altering drugs have been used since the dawn of time and if it's ok for those tribel blokes in the far corners of the amazon jungle to use them it should be ok for my business account manager to use them when he reviews my overdraft facility
  5. I'd say cannabis is less mind altering than alcohol
  6. I dont smoke the stuff mut I dont object to anyone doing so at the right time in the right place, fill your boots I say Imagine the revenue we are missing out on
  7. Your going to have to save quite a lot and possibly sell your soul for that setup Antione
  8. Softwoods only burn as fast as you allow them to burn. If they give out twice the heat you only need half the draw. The problem is not in how fast or slow a wood burns, it is in how efficient or controllable your stove is to convert the BTU value of the wood into heat and to get it into the room and not up the chimney Soft or hard is irrellevant Efficiency and heat transfer is When I was looking for a stove the efficeincy rating was the first figure I looked at
  9. Thats easy....Becky Mantins Back garden, whilst she was at home sunbathing feeling a bit vunerable after splitting up with her partner and needing a shoulder to cry on
  10. Holy cow, the finshed artical eh......thats about an unbalanced crown as you can get and they had the cheek to leave the brash
  11. Your a genius Sean, perfect mate
  12. It was a toss up between the nikon and the canon d40 but I would have had to go for the d300, on price it's similar to the canon, but the d700 is double the price
  13. Or extend your shoot or buy a chipper that throws the chip properly I can park my chipper 145ft away from the truck and still get some chip in the back
  14. I'm going to eventually buy a canon L series lens Graham, I've been put off Sigma because they seem to have this flaw of needing rechipping to keep up with the fast moving technology whereas canon dont I haven't researched enough or saved enough yet as to decide which one
  15. They are proably better lowering vat then people who avoid paying it wouldn't be so inclined to do so
  16. It's a heavy camera and has even got a long strap thing like a hnadbag handle you can use to swing it as a weapon for when pensioner attack
  17. No such thing as an over done lunge
  18. I know mate, lots of page views already
  19. Much of it is in the lens, I've taken some suprisingly good photos with my 3.2mp nokia phone camera with carl zeiss lens
  20. Its 10.1MP I could even make Stephen Blair look good with it As soon as I posted the pics I knew someone would pick up on that, cheers Mate
  21. Definately allowable against tax, essential for survey work and planning apps !
  22. Traded in some old toys and bought a new one I'm getting as bad as you Stevie
  23. She just looks stunning I reckon A camera worth photographing
  24. I notice the crotch area has sustained damage

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