Recent content by JBR

I agree. We have two and I hardly ever see a mouse. Even when I do, it's one that the cats have brought in. (If I can catch it, I will always let it out again. After all, they didn't come in on their own!)

Well, if such is the case it would be nothing like the Keter shed I bought all those years ago. A little worrying, though, that a Keter product has turned out to be unreliable or poor quality. Apologies to Opps, btw. You did say a small cupboard, and I obviously misunderstood. Nevertheless...

Well, to be honest, mine is on an elevated stone platform which supported an old rotten wooden shed before I got the Keter. As for leakage through the roof, I have never seen a drop, and there was absolutely no need to seal any joints. Perhaps they have changed the design. I must say, though...

To be honest, our Keter shed is still as good as it was several years ago, and no leaks. I'm not sure whether your cupboard is similar to our shed in any way, but perhaps it is not as well designed or produced as well as our shed. Of course, it is a long time since we bought our shed, and I...

Thank you. Another person who remembers the traditional counties. Yorkshire is even worse off: it now comprises four modern 'counties'. I still refer to the three Ridings.

Yes indeed. Rather like that other copper who arrested someone but was then charged with a criminal offence for doing so. This country is falling apart. The ones in charge, especially some judges, don't seem to know right from wrong.

Well done, Odds. I applaud your giving help to birds. They can't get to my pond (though they sometimes sit on the net and think about it), but I do put out food on a bird table (which the squirrels also use) and a hanging basket, along with a bowl of water well above ground. I am very happy to...

I have a net covering the pond, so the tadpoles and perhaps the young frogs might have found it difficult to come out of the pond. I have left a suitable gap in the net at the back of the pond and the adult frogs can (and do) come out through that area. There's no way a bird could reach the...

Yes, I'm sure you're perfectly correct. In any event, there are initially hundreds of tadpoles, but only a small number of frogs so they could have been eating each other. I wonder whether that might be an advantageous solution for overpopulation of humans too!

We have tadpoles every Spring, but by the Summer they are either all frogs or have been eaten (by the goldfish?).

I agree. I don't like the BBC, but the wife does so she pays for the licence!

I can fully agree that LibreOffice is good. They also have a very good online site where you can get answers to any problems. My version of MS Word went tits-up some months ago and I didn't fancy paying for a new one, so I thought I'd try LibreOffice. Definitely recommend it.

We do occasionally find a programme on ITV disappears half-way through. We have to go back and find the programme and re-load it. Quite apart from this problem, I'm afraid that ITV is no longer the best channel on television as it used to be.

I am not going to end up in a slanging match with the EV brigade. I say, leave them to it if they're happy with all the drawbacks. After all, we live in a free country (or used to). I'm sure that time will tell, and they will quickly do a U-turn!

Well it won't work on me. Electric cars are completely unattractive for several reasons, primarily their cost, relatively short lives, lack of range, expensive to run unless you have your own charger, and... they do tend to explode and burst into flames!