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difflock

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  1. Why does the timber have to stay on the site, and how is it to be used?, or is it being left to rot?
  2. Most of our moderate financial success in life, was due to NOT being in the thrall of the money lenders, for cloths, consumer electronics, furniture, cars or houses. We were and continue to be shocked by the sums most people pay in interest, for their, mostly, unneeded consumer goods. But, despite my aversion to credit, from about age 17, i.e. 43 years ago I ran a credit card(and 43 years later still with the same CC provider), to our advantage. mth
  3. AC Price Engineering Ingleton Cumbria WWW.ACPRICE.CO.UK If my near 20 year old memories are to be trusted the above firm was helpful and reputable. I also talked to AV but they , from memory, were a bit unhelpful, my impression being that one should simply write them a cheque without so many newbie questions, quite unlike AC Price's helpful/unpushy responses. I did actually manage to rationalize that a Unimog was not best suited to working in peat-moss, hence I did not proceed.
  4. "Plus shaving, at least amongst white males in the western world is diminishing." Me? I blame Isis.
  5. Well we took the latest pup to Portrush today, we have only had him 2 weeks he is now 12 weeks old and got his 2nd innoculation shots Friday past. After a bit of a walk we sat on a grassy bank to eat our chips, the 2 older dogs know the drill and drool, but dont beg. The chips were sitting on the grass in front of their noses obviously. Montgomery, the pup, only needed to be told about 2 or 3 times and quiet nicely too, before he too sat as good-as-gold, until we finished and they got their few chips as a treat. He has been equally quick picking up the dos and donts st home, but, pardon the pun, I thought this early unforced obedience "took the biscuit" A proper "clinker" in the making methinks. Marcus
  6. Ah must ah bin wile lucky then . . .
  7. Guessing air brakes will be needed. Good luck.
  8. My various "Gay" Wagens will never forgive me, but I too got the hots for a 'rok. Ever since they were launched by VW. Problem is I really really really, really dont need one.
  9. The blokes that built the garden room for us, were big into buying certain tools from the states, incl one of those worm drive Skilsaws, essentially stuff that was not available on the Euro market. One very simple thing I saw on Youtube was the steel pins, square or round, 5/8" thick, with predrilled holes every few inches /two inches, for setting out, nailing retaining timbers to etc etc.
  10. Quite Stalwart like is it not?
  11. Reminds me of the old old story about the pair of younguns that fall in love and get married, she soon starts making a few changes, disapproving of his friends, correcting his grammar, improving his table manners, "encouraging" him to get a better job, tidying up the way he dresses, insisting he goes shopping with her, etc etc, until one day 20 years down the line, she sighs heavily one day and says; "John, you know, you are just not the man I married all those years ago" Devon and Cornwall would be the same by the time "J" had them sorted out.
  12. Well . . ., not about topics they know nowt about.
  13. Slob that I am,( and despite trying to persuade/motivate/encourage staff to drain the multitude of strimmers and push mowers at the end of the season) I have only very rarely run the 026 (bought in 1997) dry before parking her up, for up to 3 or 4 months, perhaps 6 months bytimes. Only changed a couple plugs too in all those years. And still she starts and runs. I also leave the mix sitting for months, like all the while the saw is unused. But I use the red Stihl oil and am very particular about the 50:1 ratio. And in this case my light usage should make stale fuel problems more likely. But I never experienced any issues, well perhaps the once to be honest, but it cured itself.
  14. Best thing I did was take my entirely unexpected package and go at 57, (with 32 years "punched") I am now 60, and I was looking forward to a payrise (being the State Pension) in 6 or 7 years, but I will not be getting ahead of myself. Marcus
  15. But assuming wind or birds do not carry them off-site and into a watercourse, surely they will eventually degrade back into the environment, assuming they are not made to the same degradation proof standards as Wavin sewerpipe. In the greater scheme of things there is always something to eat anything.
  16. Hmm, You know that old expression, "Big feet = Big Lad", is there a corrolation, or does he take after his poor ould Da? mth
  17. I ordered a router bit yesterday at 12.22Hrs, from Dennis Wilsons of Glenavy Through the letterbox 08.30 this morning, c/w a complementary carpenters pencil. WOW! Well impressed I am. Edit; I "pinged" them an unsolicited testimonial this morning and got a actual human reply inside of 4 hours, also proof that someone is "gripping" their on-line operation.
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  18. Fcuk me! you nabbed that before I edited it, but only cos it had already been said.
  19. Pre-nup or pre-tup, cos I always get them confused
  20. The Soliciter we use airly dismissed my notion of paying for a couple of letters he wrote to a neighbour regarding a disputed RoW. Cynic that I am, I merely allow he will recoup any such losses when our Estate is settled!
  21. I take it the guards are to prevent the "fecking" sheep eating the trees, this could also perhaps the reason they are transplanted when larger? Marcus
  22. stob /stɒb/ Learn to pronounce noun DIALECT•SCOTTISH a broken branch or a stump. "old roots and stobs and crackling leaves" a stake used for fencing. Round here in Co Antrim I have heard locals refer to fence posts as "paling stabs"
  23. Just need someone to do a European equivalent is all!

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