Doug Tait
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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.
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Correct method for driving through floods
Doug Tait replied to Steve Bullman's topic in General chat
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. -
Correct method for driving through floods
Doug Tait replied to Steve Bullman's topic in General chat
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.
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Correct method for driving through floods
Doug Tait replied to Steve Bullman's topic in General chat
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 -
Wood burning stove with back boiler problem
Doug Tait replied to Zaffy's topic in Log burning stoves and fireplaces
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. -
We see it certain times walking on the moor, never sure what it was but kind of reminds me of frogspawn
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Amateur, I could've botched that sober!
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And you Les, all the best. Morning all.
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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.
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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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Morning, all the best folks.
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Morning all. Frosty calm morning here for a change. Helping my mate today with an Ash at his paddock that's come down in the wind. There were 3 to be felled with dieback so that's one that doesn't need felled now... Have a good one.
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Morning all. Still off here so not much happening, need to drop off kit for loler this morning, might treat myself to a fry up after at the cafe. Have a good one folks.
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Morning. Well the weather outside is frightful, and the bed is so delightful, so as there's no place to go, let it blow, let it blow, let it blow! Have a good day folks.
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He's not signed in for a while
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Morning all. Happy Christmas, have a good day.
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Enjoyed that, good effort at the end.
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Hope it's tolerable Bob!
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Morning all. Early start today, need to finish cutting hedges by lunchtime as we're off for our Christmas lunch this afternoon. Roast beef etc for me followed by an interesting sounding choc orange sundae. Then that's it, finished for the festivities. Have a super great day folks!
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Posh pants? Exoboxers - would you want these for Christmas?
Doug Tait replied to Arbmam's topic in General chat
He does the Step one. -
My mate has the Aldi one too. He let it freeze and the pump went, he called them to ask about buying a new part and they sent him it free under warranty. No other issue and it does everything from quad to tractors.
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I can't really help Whoppa, but your comment about restarting phone reminds me of a problem I had, I restarted with no difference and a phone techy friend said no, turn off and on again, it's different from restart so maybe try that...
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Morning all. Scotty that sounds bloody painful, hope you get done today and can put your feet up. I'm off, nothing interesting planned, see what the day brings. Have a good one folks.
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Be careful with that Mr oldwoodcutter. I had the same tactic, she wanted to be a dancer as a lass, will dance at any opportunity, loves it. Thought it'd make me look good being interested in it with her, then she started talking about dance classes in Edinburgh (an hour away and there's other people there ffs), when she started mentioning the future occasions where we'd have the opportunity to dance I realised I had to loose interest quickly, I'm really more of a headbanging with the lads type dancer, too self conscious for proper dancing. Be careful out there!
