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  1. Doug Tait
    Hope it goes to plan this time, no dishes for a while! Good luck.
  2. Doug Tait
    William g, your initial question has had a good response here and it seems could be fruitful for you but you need to try to grab it when it's there. With the best of intentions, can I suggest an alternative to "Yes" in response to AHPP's question. Maybe try... Sorry for the delay in responding AHPP, I've been quite busy. Yes I'd be able to travel 10mls for the opportunity of a days work as I have a bicycle/live on a bus route/have parents to drop me off. I'd be grateful if you'd take the time to ask the person you know that's close to me if they could offer me any help and I can assure you I won't embarrass you by letting them down. I can be there when they ask me to come, I'll listen to what they say and I'm sure I can be useful while I learn. Thanks very much for taking the time to help, I really appreciate everyone's input here. Good luck with it William!
  3. Doug Tait
    Fair enough. I'm lucky living in a quiet area of Scotland where you can go for miles without an issue. Seems such a strange idea to hire a field with a secure fence by the hour!
  4. Doug Tait
    Chuntering away at an Olympic level?
  5. Doug Tait
    It's a strange world, of all the dogs I've walked it's never occurred to me I needed to hire a small compound to do it in, there's a hugely engaging world out there to go have fun in!
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    Jokes???

    Doug Tait replied to brownie1964's topic in The Lounge

    For as long as anyone could remember, the Indian Chief had named all his tribes children. One day a young brave approached him to ask "wise Chief, how do you know what to call our children? How do you get the wisdom to choose?". Very simple replies the Chief. I must have an open mind and observe the world around us when the child is born, what I see is our ancestors guiding me to name our children well. When she was born I saw an eagle soaring above us, she is Eagle Gently Soaring. When he was born I saw the river that brings us life was in flood, he is Angry Water. And when she was born I saw only one cloud in our massive sky, she is Lonely Cloud. But I'm puzzled, what makes you ask this question now Howling Dog Shagging?.
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    Morning all. Thought I'd look in before bed, not planning on seeing the actual morning. Earlier, for probably the only time ever, I held a rock from elsewhere in our solar system that was around 4.6 billion year old. Then saw the light from a star that was emitted when the dinosaurs reigned on this planet. Feeling fairly insignificant now. Have a good day folks.
  8. Doug Tait
    I'd be happy enough with option 3. If they go in the garage kiln dried and are used up in a couple of months then just make it convenient for yourself, be fine.
  9. Doug Tait
    I've heard they don't see very well so as long as you move slowly you should be fine! Have fun and take a pic pls...
  10. Doug Tait
    Morning all. Day off today, physio then a nice brekkie at the cafe for me. A few months ago the oh got us tickets for a visit to Kielder Observatory and tonight's the night! Been a while since I've seen 4am but I'm really looking forward to this. Fingers crossed please for clear skies! Have a good one folks.
  11. Doug Tait
    If anyone can guess which is the first bridge we're clearing today I'd be grateful if you could let me know! Despite the council having taken photos of the blockage, they don't apparently know which bridge they've photographed. We're on the hunt...
  12. Doug Tait
    Morning. River levels have dropped enough to do some bridge clearance today, feeling motivated! Have a good day folks.
  13. Doug Tait
    Find the night porter, see if they'll sort it out
  14. Doug Tait

    Boing

    Doug Tait replied to peds's topic in Video forum

    Take it the top was meant to come towards the camera and when it didn't whoever was on the rope panicked a bit and tried to save the neighbour garden?
  15. Doug Tait
    Shame Scottish Windows isn't around anymore, a service like that would be right up his street.
  16. Doug Tait
    Morning all. Not so mild today, touch of frost and brighter than it's been for a while. Not worked much last week so plenty energy for an afternoon bouldering with my mate, I'll sleep well tonight. Have a good day folks.
  17. Doug Tait
    Years ago in the snow we were leaving a farm one night, the long single track uphill was 4' or 5' deep either side. She wasn't keen but I convinced her we'd be fine so off we went in the pickup with an empty trailer on. "It'll be fun" was the last thing I said. Got some momentum and we were going great, sliding side to side between the drifts, round a corner, we were in sight of the main road and she clamped her hand on my thigh in a death grip, she had the strangest look on her face. Cross between insanity, hilarity and abject fear. Really quietly, with a deathly look in her eye she said "we've had enough fun now", I knew she meant it. I did make it to the main road ok, and as instructed when she got out I waited there to pick her up after she'd walked the rest of the track. Since that she has the final call on how much fun something will be.
  18. Doug Tait
    25yrs experience as a mechanic means he's 40+. What's he doing with a lowered bmw. He's not driving through floods in it. It's this puddle, with his mates, up to 30 times a night.
  19. Doug Tait
    Slow and steady, keep momentum with a bow wave. Any doubts and I won't commit. Unless I'm in the valtra of course, then it's balls to the wall and hopefully swamping the git in his lowered bmw
  20. Doug Tait
    I'm not a plumber either but patchy heat from a radiator would make me think the radiator had problems rather than the heat source. If I remember correctly, hot at the top but cold at bottom is a sludge build up, cold at the top but hot at the bottom is trapped air, and a uniform too cold or hot across the radiator indicates it isn't balanced right.
  21. Doug Tait
    We see it certain times walking on the moor, never sure what it was but kind of reminds me of frogspawn
  22. Doug Tait
    Amateur, I could've botched that sober!
  23. Doug Tait
    And you Les, all the best. Morning all.
  24. Doug Tait
    Wonder how much calorific value is within the "happy to help" (oh, they're anything but!) brigade at asda? It'd give them a higher purpose than pressing reset on a self service checkout that reliably fails to recognise the weight of their very own bag for life, and for £10 something an hour it may be financially viable depending on the individual's combustion time.
  25. Doug Tait
    There is info there when I tried it, had to tap search again after it showed the postcode on the map like in your screenshot, the options all came up then. Try this link. https://arbtalk.co.uk/recycling/?nearby=20&lat=51.609035&lon=0.5382372&category=0&country=0&state=0&specialization=

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