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Do remember that ther are rather a lot of people now supposedly fiddling their income figures to get mortgages, because they see the soaring price of property and reckon it is the only way to go. So Mr Brown has a scheme where you can buy 50% of a house if you can not afford all of it. So in...

Probably a fuse blew.

Maggie had a go at taxing voting. Introduce single transferrable vote. Instead of an x mark each candidate 1,2,3,4, as far as you care to go. One with the lowest votes is eliminated and his votes go to the next preference marked on the papers. Keep going until only one is left. That way we...

Head of the british army demanded that the prime minister give him a cast iron legal opinion otherwise he would refuse to go to war. As far as I know Blair only gave him the short version, with all the 'buts' and 'howevers' and risk of charges left out. It did sound as though the army was of...

Na mate, must all come out right or we wouldn't be here, now would we? Ever read that one about time trips to see Jesus being crucified? Where all the locals stayed at home but there was this big crowd egging on the romans.....

The sound of music? Got everything that film. Gestapo, singing nuns, vintage cars, castles, political intrigue, local colour.

So thats over 70s only at the disco?

Hype again eh? They may want it, but what will they give in return? Otherwise they are not going to get it.

There are lots of people out there who like it when their house goes up in value. Of course, you can only benefit from that money if you sell up and go live in a one bed flat somewhere, or after you die your kids can all go on luxury holidays. But there is a down side. If you insist on having...

One interesting bit what how the senate committe behaved. After all this fuss and demanding George come and face them (though not actually having asked him to), they all scarpered when he did. I don't know how many there are supposed to be on this committee, but only four turned up at the...

You can not buy yourself out of the present property crisis. Mortgage tax relief was abandoned because it became utterly pointless. the idea was to allow people some extra dosh to help them buy houses. The result was that if they had say £5000 extra (long time ago) then the price of every single...

And given the efficiency of local authorities, make sure you vote as many times each election as you can.

That was 37 and 43 in a 30 mph zone? I doubt your speedo is that far out. Yep, I agree the situation with driving instructors and cameras is becoming ridiculous. More and more people are getting tickets for doing 42 in a 40 zone but they are taught to drive faster than this. Wholly absurd...

Begs the question of showerproofing the other end of this flex where it goes into the towel rail. I think you might get some smirks for using over-rated equipment, but not objections. As this is supposed to be powering a towel rail, will they be showering the towels too?

There are two standard polish layouts. One presumably with extra keys, but this one generates special characters using right alt and key. łćąńó whatever.

Oh, and I meant to say. Any electrical engineer who manages to create a device which pushes 12Kw down three wires and gets out 7Kw on each of three pairs of wires is going to get very very rich.

Perhaps a couple more diodes. One in series with each lamp and switch, with opposite polarity to the bypass diode. The bypass diodes must be as you have drawn them, in opposite directions. You now have two separate current paths for the negative and positive half cycles. The lamps/switches would...

Don't forget the catch-all about fittings being appropriate for their surroundings. Which would mean that if you felt it a reasonable possibility the connection was going to get sprayed, then as the installer it is up to you to install something sprayproof.

Nope. That is not how it looked when I typed it.

It is a uk keyboard with uk characters embossed on it but the computer presently has polish language selected. This also uses something called the central European character set, I think. The upshot is that no key directly produces a pound sign though I have got a Ł. (if that comes out the...