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Hello All Not been around much of late and back from hols. Have just bought an inflatable kayak for mucking about with Junior B when ever possible. Hopefully heading out this weekend for first test following paddling about Windermere on a friend's kayak last week. Anyone into this have any...

Went to see this yesterday - surprisingly good, especially when it rained - full of lots of people chatting :) Was surprised to see who was the main sponsor, (at the foot of linked site) - the architect is Swiss..

Tokina 11-16 Anyone on here got one. Does the novelty wear off? Cheers Ade

One for the builders/developers out there - dropped into my inbox earlier: Obviously proper accountant's advice required etc. however thought it may be useful info for someone. Ade

We've a large mature sycamore in the corner of our garden which is currently crawling with aphids and has the bark encrusted with scale insects over the whole tree. Neither bother me particularly from a tree welfare point of view as my understanding is sycamore's are pretty robust and judging...

Mrs B has just bought a chimenea which should turn up in the next days. We live in a smoke free zone - there seems a varied choice of smokeless fuels out there. Anyone any recommendations? TIA Ade

Anyone come across this - two of my machines have flashed this up today as being blocked. I've not had virus/trojan issues for years - PC's kept clean, no peer to peer networks, dodgy surfing nothing... AVG free can't find anything on scans, neither can Malawarebytes... Anyone know...

Little beggar has emptied the contents of my bird feeder onto the lawn in a number of days presumably sifting through the mixed seed to get to the bits he likes - any ornothologically minded folk advise on suitable chaffinch food, would like to keep him (and the other garden visitors) around but...

We're off to Brittany again this Easter. Driving with 2 kids and a car full. Anyone any tips on cheap ferries - looking at options, we're looking to cross at Dover/Calais and drive down in one day, breaking the return leg via Mont Saint Michel - which is what we did a couple of years back. It...

Don't know if you've seen this, I watched the footage from here earlier :eek: Frightening stuff.. the destructive power of the water is astonishing. Hope that the extensive damage doesn't result in extensive loss of life.. a massive area has been affected. Ade

Been away for a few days without internet - mixed blessing :D Looking to extend a lease from 73 years to 99 for a flat with a corporate Freeholder. Got a quote from the freeholder and understand that this can be challenged. Anyone any experience of this in London? TIA Ade

From posts on here, many of you consider your home an important part of your life and it seems quite a few plan to or have undertaken extension/alteration works to your property. How many used/considered a qualified architect as part of the process and if so did/do you think they added...

You are driving down the M1 (at 67.5 mph) and move to the middle lane to over take two trucks on the inside lane.. Its heavy traffic with vehicles in all lanes but reasonably spaced. Visibility and weather is good. Suddenly what look like several large roofing tiles sail off the back of the...

Haggis tonight for us even though we are not scotch.. Lived in Glasgow for a while and met Mrs B there - despite this many happy memories of the place. Happy Burns Night or whatever you say up there. Ade :D

My business website uses flash and as such can't be viewed on an iPhone and I guess iPad although I understand Blackberrys and other Android phones can see flash content.. I had the site set up a few years back as a simple CMS and we wanted a couple of small animated touches to make the site...

Having traversed the M1 & A50 twice in the last 24 hours, lowest temperature I saw was -12. From a quick google -10 is roughly the lowest effective temperature for grit to be effective. Certainly seemed plenty of grip at the time although a catastrophic slide was in the back of my mind every...

Flippin' heater matrix has packed in on my '06 65k allegedly cheap and uber reliable japanese Accord Tourer. An £800 fix.. :( As I'm back in familiar CE repair territory, shall I chop it in for a C class estate before the next thing falls off...? I'm thinking the depreciation hit and...

Junior B had a 'wee' accident in the car a couple of weeks back. Not much appeared to escape and I mopped up the seat at the time with tissue and wet wipes and thought nothing more of it as it was such a small amount. Roll on to now and the car has a distinct aroma of pee when you get in which...

We've a large sycamore in the garden which could do with a trim. I've cleared the garden around it as I'm about to build a 'garden office' (posh shed) under it, but before I start, I was thinking of getting it pollarded as the space below is clear. My limited experience of sycamores is that...

Hi All I'd like to be able to extend the range of my wifi router to cover all of my garden. The router is currently in a bedroom at the front of the house (where the BT point comes in) and will reach through the flat to a couple of metres into the garden. I'd like to boost it to reach the...