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If anyone is interested, after having an electric car for three and a half years, I have now handed it back and bought a new one. New car also electric but different brand and a little bigger. Overall I am very happy with the electric experience. So far I have found EVs super cheap to run, but of course pricey to buy. My old car has been faultless until last week when it decided to discharge its little battery just because the car had its doors open for two hours and I guess the interior lights were on. It felt ridiculous to open the bonnet and put a traditional battery charger on the little 12v battery when I know there is a massive 400v battery in the floor which could power my sawmill for a whole day. Anyway, after an hour or two of charging all was ok and the car is nice and clean and sparkly to hand back to the leasing company. If anyone wants to know, I will update on here in the future how the new car is. It is an outright purchase this time not a lease, which has tax drawbacks, but still owned by my company not by me.

Yes I saved the seeds myself from just a single pumpkin.

Is it normal to get lots of different colour pumpkins from one batch of seeds? The seeds are Crown Prince, but I didn’t expect such a variety of colours! I haven’t cooked any yet, so maybe they are all the same inside.

If she has not had her own policy before, £730 sounds very good. My suggestion is to say to her "Why the hell didn't you check before committing yourself?". That is what my misses would say to me. And she would call me an idiot.

This is a question for your accountant really. But, if we assume the car is not entirely for business use then you will be taxed on the benefit. This is done in different ways depending on whether you are an employee or self employed.

Not to mention dashcams in cars. In fact there is a police website https://gosafesnap.wales/ where they invite people who have dashcam footage showing dangerous driving to upload clips. I don't know if these get used in court, but I guess the police wouldn't ask for them if they couldn't use them in some way.)

Been lighting my wood burner most evenings for a week or two. Regretted it last night though - 25 degrees in my lounge, and 23 in the bedrooms. Way too warm for comfort.

Will this thread reach 1000 pages tonight?!?

It is very difficult to judge when to get the best spalting. If you had left it another year it would have been more spalted, but may have had rot.

Correct.

Not exactly! I also have milled lots of Lawson cypress recently (or white cedar to give it a stateside name). It is excellent Timber. Stable, strong and durable outdoors. Here is my new shed for my inverter, entirely built of cypress. Uploaded better photos now.

Pincers, not pliers.

There was another thread started a few weeks ago asking the same question. There are very few options these days, but have a search for back boiler on this site and read the other thread - I think there were one or two options mentioned.

Maybe it’s about time you increased your daily rate. But before you do can you take down a leaning oak for me please?

If you're using mileposts for navigation Oh no I use an electric map these days….

What I have wondered for many years is what happens when roads are straightened etc to all the signs, and indeed the old mileposts? I guess the signs maybe get corrected as and when they are renewed. But do they keep moving old stone mileposts? For instance near me on the Newport to Chepstow road is a milepost which I assume says Chepstow on one side and newport on the other. It surely predates all the major improvements that took place to this road in the post war period but before the M4 was built. So the distance to Chepstow would have been much further going through villages that are now by-passed etc. This would be even more pronounced in say bath or Bristol giving distance to London. Are all the old mileposts now wrong? Or is there maybe a little known profession of milestone corrector where a little old man comes out late at night and re-carves all the distances as and when necessary?

Chusan palms. Lovely plants. What a shame the one near your house is so close. In the right place it would look lovely.

Yeah. The worry is if I fill a tub then lift it into my van and it splits!

Looks like I am totally wrong and plastic is legal. Sorry. It turns out my plastic tubs have UN certification for medium risk liquids (which as far as I can see includes diesel) and it is just Tesco new rules which ban them. So to fill up at Tesco you are allowed to put 10 litres in a plastic container or 20 litres in metal. So if I had been better informed when Tesco told me I was breaking the law I could have said "No I am not - here is the UN certification - if Tesco have their own special rules why aren't they listed somewhere at the filling station so people know about them?" The solution for me is simple - I go back to my UN certified plastic containers that do the job well, and ask for a refund on my lovely shiny Wavian jerry cans which are almost impossible to use due to 'glugging'! The only fly in the ointment is: how long do I give the plastic tubs before I decide the plastic may be brittle and at risk of splitting?

Ah, lots of us have a project like that somewhere. I googled the interior of the early g-wagon, and it is lovely.

Bit of a classic I guess. You know we want pictures really...

Are you thinking of a valuable number plate or something else?

I couldn't see it either, so I asked my wife and she saw it. I don't see a need to squint but hold the image a metre away and you should see a man's face instead of the left girl. Interesting, but not a joke.

There is a little old country garage near me that sells red out of a pump. I used to use him on very rare occasions but knew he was a total rip-off. Last time I asked the price beforehand and he said "About £1.20 per litre". How he could not know I have no idea. He then proceeded to fill my can and knew exactly how much to charge me - just over £1.50 per litre. Yes that is for red. Admitedly this was a year or so ago when prices were higher, but it was not a complicated question - and he lied. I never use him now.

One of the earlier posts on this thread suggests that it is HSE guidance, but only once you are over 10 litres. Maybe this is wrong? Anyway, as I found out random plastic containers are not allowed, however strong.