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We saw proper gypsie/romany/itinerient workers on a municipal caravan site in rural France, well actually we didnt, they were away to work before we stirred and not back until after we retired. An pristine Fendt caravan with a spotless stainless steel kitchen utility unit on its on trailer chassis, and gleaming transit vans. These, from an Irish perspective, were NOT Travellers.

Proper jealous of your springs Matthew, my drainage will be via a 110mm/150mm Wavin to the origional trial pond and onward through existing drainage. Unfortunately my supply is located beside my logical drainage point, so I will need to re-route one of them, to encourage some sort of through flow. mth ps looking forward to your photos Matthew

Thinking of a pontoon island? Just need to figure the flotation mechanism marcus

see att, currently unfilled, I am gambling a mix of rising groundwater, rainfall and roof run-off, from some 550m2(and planning on adding another 200m2 shed) will fill it, fingers crossed. I lifted the surrounding bank up about 600-700mm to "lose" the clay i.e. to increase the depth, got somewhere between 2 and 3 m deep I reckon, if it fills to brimming. Clay is essentially rock flour courtesy of glacial outwash, locally notorious for its impermeable nature, i.e. mostly peat over such subsoil since there is almost zero drainage. My trial pond holds water right up to ground level, when the water table is naturally a couple of feet down beneath the peat. Fingers crossed(and almost wishing for rain!) marcus

making slow progress, too bloody hot, anyway after faffing about pre-tensioning the bundles with the splitter ram. Ye know what? A third strap does more good, starting with the middle strap.

Ah build a inner firebox outta bits selected from the log box(=a cardboard supermarket fruit box), than a couple o handfuls of scrumpled up newspaper, an a match, an sit, for a very few minutes and coddle the instant inferno with the draught from the just cracked open door. Foolproof, mind you with 10 or 12m of flue that catches our praviling wind, it would be harder to fail to light the dry conifer I burn. marcus

As Billy Connolly so eloquently stated, when asked by the teacher what had happened that he shit his pants in primary school. "A big boy done it and ran away" I found this to be a general excuse for broken equipment during my Council years.

The chances of any outsider getting near a traveller site, in the dead of night, and tipping rubbish, without being found out is zilch. zero, nada non existent. Unless of course they are all out thieving. imho

Dictatorship is dictatorship, whether inflicted by an individual or a committee, the human suffering does not be diminished simply because the ruling elite decrees it is for the greater good, that you and your extended family or tribe or ethnicity be robbed of honestly acquired wealth, translocated or die. I do not care what name, flag or creed it is run under the guise of.

FFS! Any how many times have not Commie/Troksie/Socialist" trial runs" been trialed without much, much more, human suffering, with nary a word of protest from the Left. If the boot fits, wear it, Communist or Fascist, both cut from the same cloth. regards MTH ps I read a very good article about the current breeding/child bearing status of Africa vis-a-vis Europe's capability to deal with their thus produced* Economic migrants/refugees, in pure hard number/population equivalent/country for country terms. *i.e. without let or hinderance. I also saw a very pertinent comment about those families choosing to expose their children to these known risks, ask yourself why? PPS Consider our indigenous traveller population who choose to cart a child or 2 about in their theiving, uninsured, running on red Transit vans, simply because it makes it unpalatable for our Police to engage with them, from a long disallusioned long serving Plod mate.

Nope ! The above but tis a conspricay theory, ah tink anyways.

Yes to all the above re the warranty issue, particularly the last comment above. Clive "made of it" but with some difficulty, I think the core issue was that he could not log the service work onto the Mazda computer, ergo the work, per Mazda had simply not been done. cheers mth Oh I now understand re the flue mounted stove thermometer not reflecting the firebox temp, but, & scratches head, why would any average idiot imagine it would? Anyway, I never understood the purpose of a stove/flue thermostat, if the owner/operator cannot judge whether timber is wet or dry, or whether the fire is burning hotly/happily and correctly, the owner/operator should not be running a wood burning appliance, simples!

How on earth could using a stove thermometer invalidate the warranty? but then Clive was refused a( very expensive Mazda) replacement wiper motor, during the warranty period, because he had invalidated the warranty by "missing" an oil change, for time reasons, Clive being a time served mechanic, had changed the oil and filter himself. and the connection between lubrication oil and faulty electrics was . . . You invalidated the warranty Sir! Monty Python's "Dead Parrot" sketch came to mind.

Survival mechanism at work, if I am dying, I will at any cost, set seed?

Not many women, & I knew of none, working on bin lorries or the manual outdoors trades, yet they demanded, and got the bonus payments that these jobs were given. For working in centrally heated premises with toilets on hand, something their male collegues did not have access to, so where was the "equality" there? marcus

What's half a hemorrhoid? Not a whole pile!

I cannot grasp that the effect of alcohol on the female is entirely discounted, but the male (who may, or may not have instigated the sexual conduct/misconduct) is expected to behave with impeccable probity despite any, or excess alcohol consumed. We all do stupid things when drunk, things we regret afterwards, so why are some girls/women allowed to absolve themselves of their guilt by claiming rape, when regretful sex would be the more accurate description. Remembering drunken student frolics, and not infrequently due to my youthful sexually unsure/shy nature, such frolics being initiated by the female. And remembering that some mornings, it was impossible to recall what had actually transpired the previous night. marcus

But I see 3 saws, not 2=both

Well onceuponatime on the benzworld forum, a contributor(to who's unstated political opinions I had already taken a dislike) described herself, without an ironic intent whatsoever, as a; "member of the Liberal Elite". Which thankfully I was able to instantly quote, before she realized and attempted to edit her post. i.e. re-write history. Those kinda people worry me. And the EC bureaucracy is chock full of them, especially at the top. Doing what they absolutly know is in our best interests, & if only we would be docile it would be so much easier. mth

Never mind that vast swathes of Texas and California were Mexican, until kinda recent like. just saying like. Ah kinda like the Mexicans I do. Dont really know why, but I do, probably due to their inclination to do hard, and unwelcome to others, physical labour.

Ah tink ye lost a nought Bob.

I cannot pass judgement on Obama care, or its likely long term efficacy(bearing in mind our failing/failed NHS) but Other than Obama care, diddy-squat=zilch of actual substance, per your quote above. cheers mth P.S. I agree Obama was an Orator, but so was Hitler, and perhaps Hitler actually achieved more?

Sump plug not properly tightened, or overtightened/threads stripped, wrong oil used, foreign bodies gaining entry, etc etc. Regardless of ones skill set, the odds of any of the above mishaps increase with repetition, that is simply a statistical fact. From someone, who at worst, due to changing the oil every 5,000, then 10,000(on switching to semi-synthetic) finally stripped the threads in the origional sump plug at near 250,000 miles, but "twigged" and replaced. That engine was still 100% good bore/cylinder wise, simply judging from the undiminshed performance, minimal oil consumption and lack of exhaust smoke, since in the 253,000 miles I never had had cause to remove the head, therefore never inspected the bores. Other nutters were changing the oil every 3,000 miles on the same engines, because it was apparently better for engine longivity. For a 1.9 TD in a car, I could not see that it made any significent difference. P.S. I always used the correct spec oil(but not needlessly Mobil 1 overspecced) from a reputable supplier, and always but always changed the filter with the oil, why on earth would one not(needs a scratchy head/banging head smile there). Oh! and was always a tad anal retentive about pulling the dipstick, and keeping the oil topped up, the idea of running on a dipstick showing just above the permitted low oil level abhors me.

Ah never did trust that particular bloody calculator! Anyway no end stickers, and head-staggers or not, I devided by 5, not 4, for 3 stickers along a 2.1m length. Oops mth

My take on that is to trust the manufacturer, and the more unneeded oil changes, the more opportunity for a mishap.