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If you're going to retread it, it would be best to strip it. You'd only need a small piece of debris to screw the pot 'n' piston, (if they're not already done). Plus it would be good to know why it blew in the first place.

That guy has conviction in his product, he also still has the fingers.

Snowed a bit during night but still only 3". Main roads are ok but hills on side roads are interesting. Gritters came by yesterday evening. If it was salt spread, it might have done it. But grit is only really good, if spread atop of a fall; if it just gets buried in ice/snow, they might as well have not bothered.

Not much on the ground but it is white.

If the road vehicle is post '96inc., it's probably OBD II (On-board diagnostic) compliant.

If you're removing a tangle - longer than you thought. If you're wrapping a present - shorter than you'd hoped.

Sounds like they either had a big order and haven't sold as many as hoped. Or they had a deal on older stock from their supplier and are hoping to upper the profit on that order.

Still got this wet stuff falling out of the sky.

Wind has increased but nowt to write home about, (though evidently worthy of mention on Arbtalk). Been drizzling or raining now for two days. I'm in my element. But it'll be grotty felling tomorrow if it keeps on this way.

A campaigning prospective local or national politician, they have fire in their blood. But don't bother with an already elected, as they're just damp squibs.

While we're on drivers. .People who use their fog lamps when it's not foggy, nor thrashing with rain/snow •People who's vehicle's sound system disturbs the peace •People who's vehicle's exhaust system disturbs the peace •People in general, who think they have more cc than they actually have functioning brain cells... and drive accordingly •Scum who nick vehicles, wreck them and think it's a laugh •People who drink over the limit & drive •People who take non prescribed drugs and drive •Parents who drive their kids to 'n' fro school. Park on the chevrons outside said school, then give you abuse when you have to nearly take their mirrors off to squeeze by •The 'head who having driven over the Bathampton toll bridge in a Masarrati, then proceeded to plead poverty when asked to pay the then 50p toll.

The scum will give it a few weeks and will be back round to get your insurance replacements. I hope you get your stuff back but somehow I doubt it. If there's a 'new' bunch local to you, quoting cheap in the next few months. It'll be worth having a nosy to see what gear they're running.

What a waste. Use them instead to mend a crack in a plastic canoe or kayak. Comes in a variety of primary colours and thus you don't have to mix in powdered paint in with resin & glass matting. Or save them for stuff like this: [ame] [/ame]

Adamam - are the plugs you're using sound? No tiny cracks in the insulator or inner electrode, the gap correctly set and the thermal nut making good contact.

Presuming you've got some form of kindling ready - cotton wool with petroleum jelly rubbed into it or a 100mm strip of rubber. I cut my old windscreen wiper rubbers into just such lengths, (and also have a ready supply of the aforementioned prepped cotton wool) for lighting my 'Woodgas' stove.

Looked in the fridge? Always find sacrificial wobbly bits last longer when chilled. You never know when there might be a dry spell.

Yep. When you get out of the wind, it's just chilly. But step out of shelter and it's gloves time.

Ditto

Still, bright and damp on the floor. Rained last night and the night before, had a bit of wind. There's some trees down but the only one reported on the local news, was sited in a park. And at some point in the tree's recent life, some nerk had seen fit to lay a concrete & tarmac footpath right up against the trunk. The scene: Reporter standing next to windblown tree, with no damage to path, as all the roots on that side had either been severed or removed.

Advertising the TV news just before it's aired or even several hours before. "At 9 o'clock we'll have stories on A, B and G." If it's worth reporting/updating, why not spend the extra airtime to include more real news during 'the news'? Rather than give over a minute in introduction graphics & slick music, only to be followed by another minute of the same, with perhaps 30secs. of non-news advertising in between. Comes from the same thought that a bit if a lot, is more productive than a lot of a bit. Worked with a fellow who with great enthusiasm attended a time management course. Then spent several years only giving over 15mins. to every task. Sure, at the end of every day on paper it looked as if 30-40 things had been dealt with; but in reality, it just meant that each day started with the backlog of several days before. Tasks that should've taken say 40mins., took three separate sessions over three days, (if we were lucky). Meetings really mucked the schedule up. Except the 15min. meetings, when nothing got done but we had a cuppa and bicci to dunk.

Heavy rain last night but not much wind. Now it's mainly blue sky and dead calm.

Forecast for high wind lady night but no wind - not upset about that. Though a bit damp out. Cat just refused to go out after breakfast.

You should work for the NT. Next to office staff, they're gods.

Foggy & Chilly - the famous but unfunny double act. Can't see the nearest fell and tomorrow's forecast is the same. But what am I grumbling about, it is after all precipitation.

There's plenty of places where there's just grey and no red left. Getting rid of all the greys isn't magically going to produce reds. Now if there were a concerted effort to reintroduce the red. Bit of a knee jerk reaction too late. Throw a bundle of cash at landowners and the cuddly reds will be romping through the woods. I can see big landowners making a killing.