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Are you open to the possibility that these things are actually happening concurrently, while being completely independent and disconnected from each other BUT also can affect each other when in motion e.g. a war in Ukraine can affect energy prices and also grain supplies to the Middle East and...

I didn’t realise that the war in Ukraine and Putin was over and forgotten about… or even that we lived in a world where we were only allowed to have one pressing current event at a time.

Not an experienced woodworker but wouldn't an easier most cost effective and stronger way to achiever this would be to pre-drill holes where the legs connect to the side pieces, counter sink the holes on the outside face and screw the pieces together, then using a scrap piece of the same wood...

Not sure what their alternatives are, they aren't in power currently to be able to do anything so it's a moot point at this stage but I don't think either of those parties are in favour of a gloves off free for all free market and neither am I tbh. Politics isn't a binary between...

I don’t think the take away from this story is whether our buses are warm or not. I think the pertinent point is that we have pensioners trying to sit on a bus all day to stay warm. My pension age mother is in panic about how she is supposed to pay these energy costs while the Tory government...

So basically saving myself at least £3k if I do it myself... think that's a bit of a no brainer then I guess. Thank you for the estimated costs, that helps... I'll price it up proper today.

Cheers Mike, I'll have a look at that site today. Just do as much reading as I can and do a Youtube marathon of paving videos. My start off point was to check if there were any specific Building Regs related to paving of this type but there doesn't seem to be. Regardless of how much plant...

Yeah I just got quotes £5,760 for not much more area and I just can’t square that kind of cost up in my head in terms of material, plant and Labour. I guess I’ll be looking at doing it myself but I’ll need a crash course on how it’s done.

Supply and install from a typical landscaping outfit? including prepping the ground, any sub base and finished with a contrasting outside border. It doesn’t need to be exact, just a budget m2 rate? I noticed that the paving I would opt for costs approx £28-£32 per m2 online.

Never used mine in around 10 years.

Trans-Rights Activists are overwhelmingly Left Wing, although people who are either neutral or sympathetic to trans issues are from across the political landscape and generally not all *anything* are *anything* anyway, it's not the argument I was making and it's not really a valid argument, more...

The simple fact is that we're just not in a position to cut off Russian Gas/Oil supply without absolutely crippling our economies and societies, particular for nations like Germany whose whole manufacturing industry relies so heavily on it. It's one of those things where we have put ourselves...

It's their attempt to make things as non-gendered as possible... using the same logic you would also have men who can/could menstruate i.e. female to male transexuals. It's ludicrous to assert that there is just no difference between biological sex and transexuals, it shows how idiotic people...

Yeah I agree, service is everything with these things because in general whenever you need to call them it's usually at some of our most stressful times. The last thing you need is someone on the other end who both doesn't give s**t and can barely understand you.

Need to sort out some home insurance... who do you use for yours and have you had any experience making claims in the past? What were they like in dealing with that. Just conscious of some of these firms tendency to try and do anything to wriggle out of coughing up for things when it actually...

The new infrastructure will be a natural progression as we work to adapt to the changing number of EVs, this seems fairly obvious to me. Following the ban on selling new ICE cars there will be a natural lifespan for the cars left including the 2nd hand market. However as the numbers dwindle...

Yeah I did consider using plasterboard underneath as I'm getting the walls in that room skimmed soon and it would tie in nicely. What about the face of the stairs, you'd use plasterboard there or is a timber sheet material better?

We have a Straight Stairs set with closed carpeted risers, underneath this there was a storage cupboard built and on the exposed face of the stairs it was sheeted with some thin board material, with 50mm strips of the same material at the panel joints and picture framing all the perimeters to...

I haven’t been to nearly enough theatre shows, been to a couple Broadway shows and saw Lion King in Edinburgh but every time I’ve been it was amazing. Im not someone who thought theatre would be for me. Lion King because I took my daughter when she was a great age and she has brilliant...

Are you suggesting that washing your hands doesn’t prevent you from catching or spreading viruses or bacteria? The loudest people I saw about Covid were anti-vaxxers … By Far.