Dean Lofthouse

England hasn't got a hope of winning or getting anywhere near winning. If they can't beat the Yanks who didn't play football at a game of football that has been played in england since time began then there's no hope. Sack the lot of them and start again, they're just a bunch of over paid, over valued thickop's that would have otherwise been on the dole had they not got into football

Is the wasp in the first pic rolling the leaf David ?

I love that bit.. Is that Qualified as in, been in the job 2 minutes but got the paperwork Or qualified as in 30 years experience

I think it is true Lorry. I think plenty of excercise is the key to happy dogs, they are quiet as a mouse at home, calm and relaxed. Then when out they go into "hunting" mode and are mental but obedient. They are the softest dogs on the planet, but hard as nails when it comes to getting into cover such as bramble, the bigger one will gladly die to retreive a bird, I have to really keep an eye on him. Last week they both saw geese on the other side and jumped up on a 3ft wall, before I could blow the stop whistle they had both gone over, it was 10ft on the other side and had run down the ivy to get down. It took me ten minutes to get them back over

Just been out to look at the label, which there isn't one and pulled the posts up ( not been used for 2 years) and the locks are seized. Took me 5 minutes to get round the locks so unless they have updated them I wouldn't bother with these. They were expensive I know that. They locked up into place and went back down despite being full of water, cant be too bad. Forget them if you live in a clay area or dont have free draining land. I would dig a test hole 3ft deep, leave it, if it fills with water dont get the buried type because eventually they'll knacker up. Here's mine http://www.barriersdirect.co.uk/categories/134-stainless-steel-telescopics/products/537-rhino-stainless-steel-telescopic-parking-post

Got some on my drive Jon thats been there 10 years and still work ok. They are round chrome posts that drop down underground, I'll try and dig out some info

Thats why I gave up drinking Dave, my tolerance level for alcohol went down and after giving up drinking my arrest rate went down too..

Sorry ! What did you say....? You'll have to speak up a bit young man !!

Got up this morning 5.50am, down to the canal car park with landy, got bike out of the back and set off on my usual 7 mile training run for the dogs along the canal. The canal in places runs along side a river. One of the dogs spots Ducks on the river and decided to go fetch and dissappears. After an hour of, Panic, anxiety, Brambles, bruises and thousand curses, I found him still in the river one mile downstream, chuffed to bits with himself. Then to top it all when I got back to the car park there was a carboot going on. I got a rollocking of two OAP's for nicking "their" spot and then another rollocking off another OAP organiser for parkng their in the first place as the car park is not to be used "the second sunday of every month" as these lot use it for charity fund raising. Well I do apologise madam, next time I'll put the defender into helicoptor mode and "hover park" !!!!

I was going to let him carry on David and then start calling him Billy until he realised, now you've ruined my game

Tested this one on the drive Rob and it was picking up individual reinforcing bars 6 inch deep, so I'm optimistic. What I was meaning with yours is if you look at a metal detector, it's easy to convert one to exactly the same setup as yours and depth of detection depends on how much you want to spend, the dearer the better. Cut off at line x Move control box down shaft and move rubber handle onto straight bit of shaft.

Any takers ?

Came across a little hand one on ebay described as "Untested". In other words not working. I bid on it and got it for £4, worth a look at I thought. Got it and sure enough, it was a non runner. So had a look and found the on off switch on the circuit board had fallen to bit so, desoldered it, araldited the peg back on and hey presto, a cheap working detector. The red arrow shows where I've aradited the on/off peg back on the switch, micro surgery when you look at the battery at the side for size comparison I'll give it a run and see how deep it scans later. BTW, those detectors that Rob D uses are simply cut down full size detectors All you do is move the console down, the shaft, cut off the rear handle and move the hand grip onto the shaft and you'll get one half the price for doing it yourself.

Learnt everything myself. Most things are just logic. The problem with todays mechanics is they dont repair, they just replace. Same thing again, they told me my throttle pedal was goosed and was £500 to replace. I had a look and a micro switch needed adjusting, 20 seconds fixed Just a thirst for knowledge is what most people need

I can still run rings round Toyota Technicians, they are useless without a computor. They told me my turbo was knackered on my 3 year old Toyota Amazon and that it would be around £2.5K to fix I asked if turbos regularly went on amazons with 30k on the clock. "No" They said. "So would you suspect that a sensor is faulty rather than the turbo seen as the car is running perfectly fine" He just stood there like a numpty. Turned out to be a loose connection, which I found. Just one of a catalogue of laughable incidents with toyota techs, problems they have mis-diagnosed which deano diagnosed properly with no computor

He's down Halfords as we speak having the baby seat fitted

Nah Bolt, thats rubbish mate....I've hit quite a few modern day things with an hammer recently and got em goin again

I'd have sent it to him recorded delivery, just to make sure he got it

Who's st george anyway, didn't he slay a dragon or something ?? Times move on...lets have another flag to represent england and let the chavs have the red cross

It happens all the time in nature.. a young maturing dog gets a whiff of a bitch on heat and will go all out to get to bury its bone, even challenging the alpha. Simon nees to reaffirm his position in the pack otherwise his missus could be in the firing line.

I'm a little disappointed in Wee Joe..... to be truthful Choosing mucky women over his Arbtalk buddies At his stage in his arb career he should be learning about wood not how to use his wood

Not your fault at all Graham, my parents taught me nothing, I learnt how to strip an engine at 11 years old through my own inquisitivness (if thats how you spell it)

Here in Huddersfield shooting incidents are a weekly occurance and now dont even make the local rag never mind local news Perhaps I have been a little harsh on the police, but when I sit back and watch the ignorant misinformed comments that the public and so called experts come out with regarding firearms, it really does annoy me as it affects me directly and as such I feel I have a right to comment. One of the reasons me and a firearms officer hold a firearms demonstration at our show, is to educate the public and kids as to how firearms are used, the reason we have them is to show how dangerous and powerful they are in the wrong hands or when mis-used our demonstration is the most popular event at the show, even to firearms holders. But most of all to educate the local populous that there are legal guns out there and introduce them to the reasoning behind them I for one have campaigned for courses to be passed similar to NPTC courses before certificates are issued simply because there should be a bar set for gun handling, safety and ballistic awareness. Over 7000 firearms related incidents last year, yet one incident in ten years of a legally held firearm and there's massive interest and the public baying for legislation. Like I said previously, if these 7000 incidents were condensed into one day then the public and "mates" might start "helping the police with their enquiries" instead of protecting their so called mates and neighbours either through fear or some kind of mis placed "loyalty"

As you may have guessed Dave, I am passionate about legitimate firearms use and when it all boils down to it the only people who get critisesed are firearms users. It doesn't help when you see witness's interviewed describing how this nutter had a "massive rifle with massive telescopic sights and a huge silencer, the gun was nearly touching the ground and he had to hold it at 45 degrees because it was that heavy" It was a .22 rimfire, which is a small firearm for shooting rabbits !! Statements like that directly affect me and the knee jerk reactions directly affect me, so I have every right to complain and spit out my dummy. This may sound selfish and it isn't meant to be, but the quicker the police had acted the lesser the impact on normal firearms certificate hiolders like myself. Within 12 hours of this happening, there were people being interviewed, including politicains, about firearms laws and how we can tighten them. We already have the tightest gun laws in the world. I particularly have more reason than most to moan as the last time this happened the knee jerk reaction was to ban pistols, which robbed me of a chance to get into the olympic pistol team. It also makes it worse for us to go about our business as everytime someone sees someone with a gun (even in a bloody field) they call the police. I am getting fed up of armed response coming out to check me out despite it being quite obvious I am legitamately there. Last time I was zeroing my rifle, off the bonnet of my fully sign written landrover, in a 50 acre field in full veiw of around 100 houses to one side and I was 50 yards away from the farm house. Some idiot with binoculars wasted police time reporting me, knowing full well I was there legitamately. Incidents of illegal guns are rife, people are shot on a daily basis but we hear very little. I'm sorry about the 12 people killed but that is a small number compared to the yearly uk death rate of illegal guns, yet there is a massive uproar. Perhaps if the number of illegal gun related incidents happened all on the same day it might get a bit more attention and make people realise that there are probably more illegally held firearms owned by drug selling gangs and wanna be gangsters than there are held legally. There are only 800,000 certificate holders in the uk Read these figures, it will make your toes curl Firearms Offences - England & Wales We just get hammered all the time and it's about time the police got the hammering for not doing their job right, not the likes of me that has nothing whatsoever to do with some nut rampaging about the countryside killng folk

The difference though Dave is that one example was "contained and the area evacuated" and this recent one was "uncontained and on the rampage" One used excessive force uneccesarily( because I suspect of his lack of firearms experience) and then these recent ones didn't use enough force.