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They apparently have a few "quirks" like the non replacable propshshaft support bearing, that means ordering a complete new propshaft from Toyota at 3 or 4 k. But the Toyota owners forum will shed more light.

What are these chimmnay sweep thinngies anyway?

It was, absolutely I suppose all I was trying to say was that it does not need to be fancy, convoluted and overworked to be quite perfect. And the "leftovers" will be eaten and enjoyed over the next few days. With Zero waste.

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Irish leg of lamb, perfectly undercooked(and eaten and enjoyed san's teeth), with venison steak pieces and venison sausages(courtsey of a local stalker that I keep in firewood) Complemented by perfectly boiled Kerr's Pinks in the skins(and disintegrating balls of flour in the pot), with carrot, parsnip and swede/turnip an loads of butter mash, crunchy Brussels, and Dutch/German red cabbage recipe, accompanied by vintage homemade cranberry and port confection. All quite perfect

Like for the 2nd Christmas, today while Christmas lunch was on the stove, the gas ran out! But the big Baho was on standby, c/w a spare gas cylinder. Anyway, year in year out, regardless of jam making or German juicing, or whatever, over about 20 years the propane runs out at Christmas, dead on like. Ya cudnay make it up if ye tried, such is the consistency.

Sigh! Now=not! ***

You appear to be very positive about a vehicle you are not driving "J". P.S. "Bah HumBug"

A "no brainer" thattun is.

Surprised the birds did not have them away already.

I have noticed the recent? practice of leaving the potato's in the drills, and only digging for direct sale. Whereas they used to be dug and put in pits, then more recently into expensive to construct potato stores. What changed? Better tyres and machinery, or spraying off the tops instead, and leaving in the ground, or what?

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I really like tha millstone for a hearth! I would also agree that your Rumford fire would be nicer, or more natural to stand around than any woodstove. And with our unlimited(at least in my lifetime) "free" firewood . . . sigh! Marcus

You do not always get what you pay for. But you most certainly do NOT get what you do NOT pay for. I imagine.

Put a couple of doors on the front of the Rumford fireplace as well while you are at it . . .

Bloody obvious that the venturi effect will draw extra, unneeded for combustion air from the room up the open flue, with 2 effects, 1 it cools the combustible gases before they all get burned, and 2 it draws in fresh cold replacment air in from somewhere else, generally below the door, causing a lovely draught. This will also happen with no fire lit, but to a lesser entent. With a woodstove the combustion air can easily be throttled, plus in the more sosphicated stoves it is cunningly heated and directed into the optimium stovebox location for best combustion. Simples.

There is a bloke on Youtube, US based, who buys and "tears down" power tools, and if I remember, he avers that the tools retailed by the stores such a Screwfix carry subtly different model numbers from those sold in higher priced outlets and are hence easily confused with the searched for product, AND more critically the guts are different, perhaps a cheaper plastic bushing instead of a proper bearing, etc etc. I know when the brother worked in a motor factors that if anyone brought back a failed bog standard Draper rachet, they simply went in the back and swopped out the broken guts for a Professional grade set of guts, and the customer went away happy, or so he told me. So appearances can be deceptive. 'Ere we go! And honest to God, that was the first clip that came forward!

. . .tick's arse!

My only experience with social workers was 15 odd years ago, when we fostered for a period. We stopped since the foster children were having a detrimental effect on our children, and there was ZERO support. We had to be interviewed, prior to being accepted, and that senior SW? (probably, I presume) appeared to be O.K. Others were very young, inexperienced and downright wet behind the ears. My experience in group meetings to discuss and never resolve issues caused me to form the opinion that keeping the paperwork filled in was the most important thing. From the Shoesmith case a few years back, and knowledge of how people employed by the Government/Council can behave dishonestly, without reprecussions, I also concluded that some home visits were probably entirely fictious. Tick the box and fill in the milage claim. Or claim one knocked on the door without response.(This was based on observations of a case worker who was supposed to check up on a blue card halfwit I was responsible for, it was clear she did not wish to interact with him, but simply punched the milage, and bytimes possibly claimed milage without even punching the miles?) PLUS, The sad truth that some of these SW will be frightened of, or manipulated by some of the people they have to deal with, the bad ones, the dangerous ones. Body cams should be a must, to ensure the SW are actually DOING their jobs, and rapid intervention based on this body cam evidence, no argument, no quibbles. Apart from "ye cant fix stupid", my other distillation based on a lifetime of observation of mostly Councli employees is "lets all pretend", that we are doing a grand job and there are no problems, while we draw our salaries and countdown to our pensions. I fear the same applies to many/most SW's. I do appreciate there will be well intentioned or decent SW's, but they will burn out very rapidly, due to the culture they work within. Edit, Also burn out due to the human animals they deal with and the cruelty and despair they must witness. Marcus

Except if she is relying on the auto ignition? Or perhaps do some gas stoves cut off the gas if there is a power cut(safety related)

Rarely sub 20 in the morning, about 6am, when we left just now, it had peaked at 28, I aim for about 25 but I generally seem overegg it just before bedtime. It must be 35 up at the apex of the ceiling. 15 deg in the rest of the house incl the bedroom. The living room being heated with a nominal 5kW wood stove. The wonders of modern double glazing means the living room has a full wall of glass, with a big sliding door to the outside. And yet it is easy heated!

Sigh, typical confession from a married man😁😉😌

Thanks OSM, I was aware from messing wi such stuff when younger.(An thinking of a knapsack full of petrol to mist the poly beads proper efficient like!) But round the daughters hoose, Senior Management could well disaapprove! An its her birthday today.

Yup! Job for a 'leccy wan innit!

Petrol, polystyrene, and a blower. Ignition! Perhaps I should consult that mad plumber wot built the jetbike et Al. His name will come back to me. AhHa! Colin Furze!