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Brian S

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  1. Brian S

    Slang!

    China = China Plate = Mate Ball = Ball of chalk = walk Frog. = Frog and Toad = Road Battle = Battle Cruiser = Boozer ( Pub for our colonial cousins) Pigs. = Pigs Ear. = Beer Bell. = Phone Trouble = Trouble and Strife= Wife Jam Jar = Car Drum = Drum and Bass = Place ( house, flat,)
  2. Brian S

    Slang!

    Round the houses, = trousers ( tried to type it as its said, looked rubbish) Gregory peck, = neck My favourite sentence is Me an a China went fer a ball down the frog to the battle, had a couple a pigs, bell'd the trouble to pick us up in the jam jar, and take us to me chinas drum Translation to follow :-D got to go out
  3. Lit ours on Saturday, just burning in the evening at the moment. Something therapeutic about watching the logs burning away
  4. No experience with the aquatherm, but I had one of these fitted SLX 45i & 45fs no complaints, runs hot water, and 6 radiators
  5. Wisco are you with DWA? You go to Escot today
  6. Will be out this week sometime, work permitting Seen a few duck about, just heard there's more than a few geese on the river woohoo Looking forward to this season
  7. I have a Charnwood 45i multifuel with boiler running 6 rads, well happy with it, it's not got the 25 kw you need though
  8. Plus another one for the Makita, best value for money, and good robust kit. Go on any site these days and the majority of guys have Makita kit Took 8 years of constant daily use to wear the brushes out on mine
  9. About the only thing Mac D's is good for, wouldn't have any food from there unless I was desperate Greggs ain't too bad though, don't mind going there
  10. I do know they are chuffing expensive, ( Exeter Services, 2 coffees and 2 muffins £9.50 eek) avoid them like the plague, if we're on the road we try for proper cafes to get proper coffee
  11. Brian S

    ''oleg''

    Waiting for ours to arrive
  12. 2009 we were paying ( who's ever version you want) 37.5 million or 40 million a day UKIP?s ?Britain paying the EU £40 million a day? claim vs the REAL costs of UK EU membership | Nosemonkey's EUtopia And it's gone well up since then
  13. Jules Chart: How much does Britain pay into the EU and what does it get back? | This is Money
  14. Hedgesparrow I'm led to believe we pay around £53 million a day to belong to this " club " the sooner we're out the better We could do mega amounts with this money Now our payments to the EU hit £53m each day | World | News | Daily Express
  15. Yep, looking at getting about 4 cube in PDQ so that it will dry over the summer, still got about 4 1/2 cube left to start ( and maybe finish ) next winter, then sort out some coal through the summer
  16. When I was a Brickie (many years ago) always told it was good for healing "birds eyes" small areas of worn away skin, you pee over your fingers, never tried it so don't know if it's true
  17. Not wanting to have a debate or be challenged on the eu http://www.ukip.org/tory_europe_mini...scared_of_ukip And the true % of laws made in brussels, as told by a senior eu commissioner http://www.ukip.org/the_truth_is_out...viviane_reding
  18. is correct, sort our own house out first, THEN we give to other countries I am also lead to believe that any funding we get from the eu they will give us half of the project cost (our money) but we have to match that funding with our own money
  19. Out ASAP We signed up for a common market, not european union
  20. Brian S

    Tape measure

    The black and yellow Stanley tapes screwfix usually have them at 3 for a tenner Picked up some brightly coloured Stanley 8m tapes for £4.99 at a local builders merchants (RGB) before Xmas, use it all day everyday on site, no problems, not lost the numbers, retracts fine will probably get another 3 months or more out of it
  21. Taw and Torridge Wildfowlers, just love being out there, watching the world go by, occasionly get a shot, and sometimes hit something Joined up about 25 yrs ago

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