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Maybe if mcd's buy their burgers from tesco or Iceland...

I think you mean Comet...

I'm in the 'burn it out' camp. But if you are not wanting to fill your house with smoke, how about going up on the roof with a piece of oily rag, light that and drop it down the chimney. Mind you, if your liner is knackered and this starts a fire in the chimney, that could end up being not at all pretty... But then I guess the same goes for any of the burning options.

Just got home from a walk in the sleet and breeze with wife and kids, front room very welcoming indeed!

... toasty!

My mother is 70 in may and is taking all her grandchildren and their parents to center parcs in France, then on to eurodisney. Might try and get back over to Germany in October too.

I'll hold fire then!

So before I spend three quid on the taps talk app, what difference will it make?

And some of the army surplus looks a bit tasty... [ame=http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7-vyoIQGwnY]? ??? ??? ?????!!! - YouTube[/ame]

If you're of a nervous disposition and or a biker, you might want to give this one a miss. Nothing gory, just scary (IMO). [ame=http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IxjhbtYwcpo]Moscow motorcyclist's crazy - YouTube[/ame]

Went there about six months ago when the National Trust had an open day. Made a nice change to some stately home.

How good is your German? It is a nice place to live and of course no work permit issues but the bureaucracy takes some getting used to. Try having a look on Toytown Germany - English language news and chat for stories and advice on life as an ex-pat.

We do about £600 a year in oil. 4 bed detached with cavity wall, insulation, loft insulation and double glazing. And a dinky DRU44 which is providing evening and weekend heat.

You can't order a stihl saw online from the us though. And if the us retail price is lower than wholesale here, then no amount of bartering will work. Are the saws made in the same factory to the same standards?

It's the same with stihl. I sent an email to the Uk sales director about 18 months ago asking why an Ms 250 was so much cheaper in the us than here, I am still waiting for an answer...

Forgot, there was some soup mix in there too (dried pulses and the like) and enough water to cover the veg in the pan.

Carrots from the garden Four or five spuds Carton of chopped tomatoes Three medium sized onions Mixed herbs Salt and pepper Two beef oxo and one veg Pack of sainsburys pork and red onion sausages (because they were selling them off cheap) Cut everything up into small chunks (good if you have got a dicing attachment on the blender). Cook for about an hour. Take off most of the liquid with a couple of scoops of solids (mainly carrot and spud if possible) and blend until smooth. Add this back to the solids as a nice thick liquid to give hearty soup. I am just re-heating some for my kids' tea as I write...

Think I will be saving the money to buy in some logs! And might look around for another 4x4 in the summer, but something that won't make me wince at the thought of filling stations every time I turn the key!

The reviews on this [ame=http://www.amazon.co.uk/Veet-Men-Hair-Removal-Creme/dp/B000KKNQBK/ref=tag_stp_s2_edpp_url]Veet for Men Hair Removal Gel Creme 200 ml: Amazon.co.uk: Health & Beauty[/ame] are pretty funny if you have the right sense of humour...

What with work being busy, my friend selling the woodland I used to get to play in and not driving it far for fear of the cam belt giving up in a big way, I worked out I'd only done a few hundred miles since the mot in June. With another couple of hundred sheets due for insurance in jan I've waved the old tub a sad goodbye today. Feeling blue. On the upside, scrap prices must have gone up a bit since the summer; I got £250 for weighing it in.

My local garage had one if them as an hgv recovery vehicle, Bertha it was christened. Beast.

This time last year I was 17 stone 11 and one of my resolutions was to get down to 16 stone 7. I got on the scales a couple of days ago and was 15 9, so am pleased with that. Been down to just under 15 stone in the autumn but piled a bit on again in the run up to Christmas. For next year, the resolution will be focused on finding a job that I enjoy and getting stuck into it, plus doing something more enjoyable and constructive in my free time than sitting on my backside watching the telly or surfing the web!

Depends on what you fancy but we have done a few family holidays in Germany and Belgium, the Ardennes are nice (I would say a bit like being in the Peak District), plenty of history to see. Aachen is beautiful and you can take the missus to the Lindt factory shop, plus stock up on German beer at five quid for 20 half litre bottles. Luxembourg if you want cheap fuel and ciggies. Maastricht is pretty. The Ardennes is about three and a half hours from dunkerque, which is about sixty quid return ferry from Dover. Try looking on Vakantiehuizen te huur in de Ardennen bij ARDENNES-ETAPE if you like the sound of it, holiday rentals are a lot cheaper during peak season than here in the uk. Alternatively if you book early the center parcs on the continent are pretty reasonable too. Just booked for 11 people in the kids half term end of may, the center parcs near Reims in France, Monday to Friday for about £750. That will be my only hol next year though!

Round here (Warwick) there's a guy who does a Transit load of rings, hardwood and mainly green, for £75 delivered. He claims it is three and a half cube. Since I'm one of those people that's not an arb pro and no longer have my own source of wood, but would quite happily split, stack and season it myself, I'd count myself as being similar to the OP's customer.

It was in the middle of the road on a left hand bend, hitch pointing towards the kerb on the opposite side of the road. Looked like it had come off the towbar of the tow vehicle and landed on the jockey wheel, broken the jockey wheel then sat down with the hitch on the road. I would have taken a pic but there was quite a few cars about and I wasn't able to stop (it was near a primary school at half past eight in the morning).