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i54 is an engine plant not a vehicle assembly line. One of the parents from my kids' school was a project manager for JLR during the build.
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The issue with dust masks is to get reasonable quality ones, of various types, and find out which fits your face best. Don't assume because with one you ended up coughing dust for days that the same will apply to all masks.
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How much are the discounters selling for then? The only time I've ever seen kindling on the high street it was in Wilkinsons, was about £1.20 for 15 or so sticks and was sealed in airtight plastic bag dropping with condensation. So the nets at £1.50 from my local solid fuel seller were definitely better...
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What do you call a woman balancing a pint of Guinness on her head and juggling four cans of lager? Beatrix!
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Thousands of pounds worth of wood from one tree, apparently. All you need to do is take your expensive equipment, time, fuel etc to cut it down, remove from site, process, season, store, bag,transport to a customer, offload / stack, get payment from customer, do your tax return, MOT your vehicles, insure your business etc. Oh, and don't forget to grind the stump out whilst you're there. Could everyone please form an orderly queue, we wouldn't want someone to miss out on this golden chance! TREE for FREE - Firewood - Logs | United Kingdom | Gumtree
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Don't use anything abrasive on the glass. If you have got some wood ash, get a damp cloth (or piece of kitchen roll), dab it in the ash and rub on the glass. Any soot should rub off and wipe off either straight away, or with a bit of a wipe with a clean cloth.
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Whereabouts 14 miles from M5? East or west?
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Surprised no-one has said it before - I think he's flooded the saw!
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Called in at Postman's Park in central London today with the family for lunch, I love the fact that it's like a haven of peace right in the middle of the city and some of the memorials on the wall are touching (anyone who's not been, there's a tiled memorial wall for people killed whilst helping others). Anyway, whoever it was doing the climbing made for an interesting bonus compared to just me sitting in the sun with a ham sarnie!
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So my practical advice is that it might be worth looking for one with free lifetime map updates as part of the purchase price!
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We've got TomTom and it's good but map upgrades are silly expensive (about £40 IIRC) and won't fit the upgraded maps onto the device. I bought a satnav with maps of the whole of Europe on it to be able to drive around a lot, now the maps are updated I can only choose between different areas of Europe on it at once. So couldn't, for example, take the satnav to drive through mainland Europe to Italy, without taking a laptop and changing the maps over to the "Southern Europe" pack before I left Switzerland. Rant over!
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Jeremy clarkson to host have i got news for you that great
djbobbins replied to mendiplogs's topic in The Lounge
Seems like a farce if the Beeb give him the shove from Top Gear for punching someone, then immediately take him on to do something else. Or is HIGNFY outsourced and produced by Hat Trick or similar? -
Strong in which direction though? Concrete blocks will resist compressive force to a huge extent (ie load bearing) but will crack easily under tension. That's why steel is used to reinforce, as steel is much better at not snapping when pulled. I assume you are meaning strong as in to be able to withstand a sideways force rather than downwards weight? In which case my main thought would be to get as much steel into it as possible, whichever option you go for! However you will need steel running horizontally as well as vertically ( no good just putting rebar rods down the cavities inside the blocks as that will just give strong "pillars" IMO. As an alternative to blocks, could you not consider getting some steel mesh reinforcement and plywood, then shuttering a wall out of solid concrete with at least one layer of steel mesh inside?
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Aren't Matadors made of ash frame and plywood skin though? That'd make a fair blaze once it got going!!
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We went decaff after Mrs Bobbins had irregular heartbeat / palpitations, suspected as a result of coffee drinking. So sadly it's Sainsbury's decaff. Donkey's years ago I lived in France for a year whilst working as a student; we made filter coffee in the lab I worked in. One heaped dessert spoon of ground coffee per cup of water; by cup I mean about 1/3 of the way up a small plastic disposable cup. My French colleagues used to reckon it wasn't strong enough if when held up in a see-through cup, you could see anything at all through the liquid. I can't remember too much about the coffee, must have been the crates of 33 Export that we got through as well, but I do miss going to work with a view of the Mediterranean then sloping off to the beach at the end of the day for a swim!
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The good news is that the England Under 20 side won their Six Nations; team included my nephew so I'm feeling very proud!
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At risk of being political Jon, I think he's done a bloody good job in the last five years given the pile of shite state that the government finances were left in. (In 2010 I mean). I know it's by no means popular with everyone, me included for certain aspects which affect me and my family, but at the heart of it all sooner or later the country has got to live within its means rather than constantly borrow. Strange no-one seems to remember Gordon Brown's quote about putting an end to boom and bust, what a load of crap that was!
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Had call from misses sheep all most dead in field
djbobbins replied to mendiplogs's topic in The Lounge
Hence the reason for the name of the beer, Riggwelter. Puts you on you back! -
Most unsuitable replacement for Jeremy Clarkson
djbobbins replied to Mike Dempsey's topic in The Lounge
Not right wing enough to replace Clarkson! -
Most unsuitable replacement for Jeremy Clarkson
djbobbins replied to Mike Dempsey's topic in The Lounge
Guy Martin. Or Jason Plato. Or Tiff Needell. Or the bloke off American Top Gear. At least all of them can drive better than Clarkson... -
Can I pay 99p, take the aluminium stepladders and leave the rest of the sh17e behind?!
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Can't see how to copy a normal hyperlink, but go to http://www.mod-sales.com then look at lot 1077 in the auction section. It's this and is currently at £1100.
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Cheap(ish) way to put logs to the top of a tall stack?! http://whitelabel.globalauctionplatform.com/en-gb/auction-catalogues/wca/catalogue-id-witham1-10000/lot-37efd8c5-3e30-4102-bdd5-a4530104e965
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Just had a pro roofing company strip and replace all lead flashing around our chimney, plus replace some tiles, chop out a couple or worn bricks from the chimney and repoint it. It's a two storey house and they did the lot off ladders.
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Guy who installed our stove swore by WD40 for polishing slate.
