Recent content by Harry Bloomfield

The blue/red cap, probably hides a grub screw, which hold the handle in place. Pick the cap out, with a sharp blade, under the lip.

Yes, a good move from both an economy and comfort point of view. Rather than the system running flat out, until the stat clicks off, and then the house over-heats - the system knows the actual room temperature, your desired temperature, works out and produces just the right amount of heat...

I'm reluctant to do that, whilst I have a sort of solution of restarting it, I would lose all my bookmarks, and setting, but it regularly updates itself anyway.

We have snow to the west, to the east, to the south, even to the north of here, apparently quite a lot of it, but we have seen none of it here - nowt, but clear, blue skies throughout.

As said, my go-to, is the French Press, however - whilst away, with the caravan, I compromise a little. I use coffee bags, one bag, per two cups, in one of those two cup drinking/vacuum flask things. It after it's 4 minute brewing time, it gets poured into a mug.

Have you tried turning that stat down, to see what difference it makes? The boiler itself, includes it's own frost protection.

You have your own, personal mechanic?

Don't worry, if it froze up, you will know for sure, but by then, it will be scrap.

Nothing else slows down, apart from FF. The whole things slows up, loading of new pages, going back to a previous page, refreshing a page, even the text cursor, whilst typing something into a page, as I'm doing now. The instant fix, is to simply close FF, and reopen it, whereupon it reopens the...

yes,yes, and yes -all good.

Not slackening of the nut, no, but heat and cold = expansion and contraction of parts, which can cause leaks.

Put an adjustable spanner on it, and give it 1/8th of a turn tighter.

I once needed to use LAT/LONG during an urgent 999 call, but they were not able to make any sense of LAT/LONG. Not that I'm aware, but I'm not very up-to-date these days. I wonder is any directly support 'three little words'?

Nor do I, as said - they are rare, on the mobile. Landline gets many more, I assume - I don't actually know because I have that set to block unknown. I sometimes ring those numbers back, out of curiosity, and almost all, are spoofed numbers, and so obviously scammers.

No, just always on my guard. As it happens, I've just had a rare scam caller, ring me on the mobile, claiming to be from Three Mobile, an obvious, barely understandable Pakistani female, so I played her along. She asked how my connection was to the cell, I said it kept dropping out, during...