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Flibble dibble hatstand? FISH!!! :shock: Why do cats insist on ignoring you, then when you try to read a newspaper they sit on it? My parents cats lie across the keyboard if anyone tries to use the computer whilst the "royalty" want some attention. :wink: Cats do bring some wonderful...

Steady now! You obviously never have to do long drives on country lanes, slowing down for villages that have dead-straight roads with unencumbered views. No doubt you used to drive through them at 90 in your former life, but I end up having to amble through them at 30 just in case there is a...

I've just checked, and whilst the stain is still wet (luckily on the interior side of the door... I realised I could do the exterior side still on the frame later on!), it hasn't run or dripped. So, I just need to be VERY careful when going indoors or out. The step (which I also stained) has...

It's been a while since I've looked at one of your albums, forgot how seriously you take carpentry! :D One question: The apple, the vase in the third row and the plate in the fourth row, they all have a "hole" in them... is that where a knot would sit, or is it some other phenomenon in the...

Yup, twas my front door, onto the street! My dad gave me a ticking off for trying to use wood stain on a winter's afternoon, but unfortunately the job really did have to be done (I'm getting ready to sell) By the way, here's a fun trick to play: get a splodge of Sadolin/woodstain on your...

Today: was using my router. I went to swap the bearing on a bit I had already loaded in the collet... I forgot to unplug the router first, and whilst fiddling around managed to press the power button. My finger was less than an inch from the bit at the time. :shock: Didn't sink in just...

I passed my test in 1997, and since then I have noticed a lot of 60mph country lanes had signs put up to lower the limit to 30 through the various villages, and on some particularly snooty villages near my parents' way the speed limit dropped to 20mph. This whole time I've been blaming it on...

Having once paid £700 to have my car repaired after mounting a kerb sideways on an icy road at just 4mph, needless to say anyone who deliberately gets their car sideways on an icy road repeatedly is bound to come off a few pounds lighter :lol: Of course, that doesn't stop me from...

Cheers Big-all! After posting, I tried the heatgun thinking "if it knackers the finish I'll just redo it another day". Heatguns don't help dry sadolin! By about 8:30 I bit the bullet, put LOTS of newspaper down on the hallway carpet and reinstalled the door, still wet. I did think...

Instead toffee's car gets broken into?! :? And is a car really any safer parked right outside? Mine got rear-ended in a hit-and-run at 1pm whilst it was parked 5 feet from my front door, with me sat inside watching TV.

Exactly!!! This is why driveways and allocated spots are selling points: they are desirable features for car-owners. You can't go laying claim to parts of the Queen's highway simply because you want to park outside your front door. If they have the space in their garden, they might be able to...

Would it be a bad thing if I used a heatgun to try and dry woodstain faster? Would it crack and craze, would it oxidise, would it run everywhere and look rubbish afterwards? :? I had to fit a new weather bar to my door frame, and whilst the door was out of the frame I thought I would give it...

SLOTH LOVE CHUNK!!!

Earlier we had a discussion on the reopening of the case against the moustachioed speeding police driver doing 159mph and being let off. Now, I've done some reading in to the kind of driving standards the police are trained to. According to one source I read, even panda-car drivers are taught...

Now now, be fair: the policemen manning the cameras aren't usually doing it as part of their regular shifts... So yup, they're earning overtime for it :x

If you want to have some real fun on Valentine's day, send a card to your mate's wife/girlfriend. Especially if he doesn't believe in sending cards for Valentine's day!!! Really winds them up. :shock: :lol:

Ah, but this is still a pretty good idea: a motorhome that carriers a car in the back for when you get where you're going! Of course, carrying an extra 1200kg or so around with you might harm fuel consumption a little, but as I understand it people in the US often tow a car behind their...

Key problem here: are you plugging your router into your NTL phone line? Cable phone lines come over the same cable as the TV and the broadband. adsl (such as AOL, BT etc) comes over the BT phoneline to the exchange. You cannot get ADSL over a cable phone line. My opinion? If you...

In my experience, this can happen for seemingly no reason at all. So, try disassembling everything, then reassembling it, and see if that helps. and I mean everything. Remove the CPU from the mobo etc. even. But I'd agree with the PSU checks too. I used to have a P2 that wouldn't boot up...

I was using a shredder the other day. I noticed on the LCD readout it had some writing, tiny writing. So, I moved my face closer to read it... Had to be about a foot away when I could read the dim, unlit LCD... Luckily I'm a scruffy get so wasn't wearing a tie, but I still want to slap...