Off-Topic Discussion

I'd get a fixed rate, long term deal asap. Prices are going up just like the infection rate.The UK has turned to a coal-fired power station to help boost its energy supply after global gas and power prices hit new highs.

Took a few other things apart and gave it all as good a scrape as possible. Put it all back together and hey presto Sounds like it's running better than before so I'm guessing accumulated crud had blocked something operating and it got cleared. Then the wheel fell off hahahahaha!!!For my ref,...

We've had to identify ourselves with photo i.d. for a long time. I'll be showing mine again to vote on Monday (early polling station) and I am glad it stops fraud.

We remember it well as T'other Half is American and I lived there for 20 years+ over two periods of time when I was young and then in my teens/20s. We were on the IoW ready to move here and our neighbour came over and said turn on the news. I still cringe watching it.

@Purple Streaks I apologize for not seeing your post about your mother passing and I offer my sincere sympathy.You do realize that she'll never be totally gone? You will remember her giving you good advice or helping you learn new skills. What she liked to eat. How she made a bed or washed a...

But that wouldn't matter as there's no sink and no drains now... It's just a pipe

Yes, it's the PCP deal I was thinking of, a disadvantage being tied into it until the stated time expires.How long do you think it would be before you can move to a different area? I'm thinking if it's only a matter of two maybe three years then it would be worth abandoning the idea of owning...

hi Pete, thank youA speaking has just told me he thinks it’s caterpillars, he said vine weevil wouldn’t completely strip a leaf like this, it maybe they have now become moths and flew away as the munching seems to have slowed, I’m still spraying and checking at night, no sight of anything in...

Im no help but watching the LasPalmas eruption right now projected onto the wall.

Three of my friends have had their teenager or young adult kids contracting Covid, all of them have been ok describing the illness as more or less "a flu".The illness is very likely to be mild and it gives the benefit of building natural antibodies so your granddaughter will have a good...

Was kind of expecting it, but we didn't.

By the next time we hear from you Colin perhaps you'll have a tune to play us. Good luck!

No Worries @lolimac my dear friend just as long as you are alright

Snail pace is just fine Vicky

Thanks everybody, I'm getting so inspired! We are not even remotely interested in railways so York Railway museum is a must- I wouldn't have thought of it. (We love museums in general, and are always on a hunt for the most unlikely one. There is a Staircase Museum in Durham that proudly...

Thanks all

A friend of ours bought one of those collars that has the microchip and his cat stands next to the cat flap and lets some of his friends in!!! I don't know whether it is only supposed to work when the cat puts his head to the flap but this one works OK when the cat sits next to it.

I think I have sorted it out, but to be honest its not what I thought it was.Im my ignorance I was thinking Heating Differential was the difference between the heating coming on and going off. But I think its actually the difference between the heating going off and the cooling coming on.As...

Ventilation is a issue for sure. In new builds in Scotland at least there has to be a CO2 monitor in the main bedroom to check air quality.Heat pumps are fine if everything is designed properly, starting with the building fabric. Its not just a case of shoving in a heat pump. Hard to...

These are white ishikura I believe - - all chopped up and in the freezer now, will just lob them into stir fries and stuff.