Peter Sharpe

I think bunny boiler is more appropriate.

I just did it in Paintshop Pro version 7 and it seems okay.

Yes, but more importantly, can Peterborough United retain their present form and gain promotion to the Championship this season?

The simple answer is that it's a rubbish router and tends to get dangerously hot. You either received yours free from Tiscali or else were suckered into buying one of the many that people were trying to unload onto eBay. Follow my tortured thread here: http://www.tiscali.co.uk/forums/showthread...age=1&pp=15 and here: http://www.tiscali.co.uk/forums/showthread...726#post2010726 In the end I gave up, as I was getting quicker upload speeds on the Speedtouch modem. Not that I have much need for fast uploads (I don't think) but I didn't want to carry on using something that was potentially dangerous and inferior. I did get it to work on wireless, but as my PC is next to a telephone socket anyway, I couldn't see any point in continuing. If I get another computer that I want to network I will buy a different router, not persist with the Seimens. Or even here: http://www.anglersnet.co.uk/forums/Siemens...er-t252923.html

The main problem with that is that it was in The Sun, which almost certainly means it's a complete fabrication.

I don't want to alarm you, but I think you probably need to burn all your fishing clothes and take a bath in hot bleach. p.s. Why does every reply include a quote, irrespective of whether the quote button says plus or minus?

Fishing with them is only the equivalent of a garden cane and a bent pin, so I would suggest that you save yourself some money and use either: 1. A garden cane 2. A suitable willow branch cut from a tree 3. An old landing net pole 4. An old float rod with the butt section missing

It looks exactly the same as the effect you can get with a single click of the Clarify tool in Paint Shop Pro.

I would have thought that the first necessity would have been to install an up-to-date aerial that is specifically designed to receive digital channels. I could hardly receive any until I did that and now I can get most of them from two different transmitters (handy for certain regional programmes). I was amazed to read that somebody was picking them up with a set-top aerial. but then I remembered that in certain locations (Shepley and Holme Firth area), the signal is so strong that people can pick up the channels without having an aerial at all, in fact I've heard that it can sometimes make it worse. I think that for most people though, it is the aerial that is the key. A cheap digi-box will pick up exactly the same channels as a more expensive one, it's just that some are longer lasting than others or have more user-friendly software installed.

Okay, I tried to find an excuse to stick up for Russell Brand, but after watching a bit of Ponderland, I realise that it's a lost cause.

It should guarantee huge viewing figures for Brands's TV show tonight. Damn, I'm missing it. Oh no - 10:35

I used to read the Guardian but got fed up with its layout. Then I went onto The Times, until I got tired of throwing away all the pointless supplements and when I realised that there was no point in reading it beyond the middle pages. The Peterborough Evening Telegraph now comes out by the time I call into the shop at lunch time, so i read that instead. I used to buy it in the evening anyway, so it saves me four quid a week. I still buy the Times on Saturday, but the Observer on Sundays.

I used to think that cannabis psychosis was purely an invention, but her has website changed my mind.

There was a war hero on TV endorsing McCain's campaign, because he said Obama wanted to turn America into a socialist country, whereas has was determined it was going to remain a democracy. This guy was given a lot of television coverage, so was obviously welcomed by the McCain camp. I wonder how many of McCain's supporters realise how tragically funny it really was.

I think a recession is when you no longer see seven year olds walking around with mobile phones almost permanently glued to their ears and people have to wear new clothes more than about three times before throwing them away.

I have come to the conclusion that America doesn't actually exist, but is just something created out of smoke and mirrors by a coalition of psychotic religious groups and advertising agencies. I'm sure there are millions of people over there who think that life is one long television commercial.

There is no statement from Sir Gerald Kaufman on there. Was it so pertinent that the BBC have been asked to remove it? It seems that two people complained after hearing it on the show. It now says that 27,000 people have complained about something because the Daily Mail and other papers told them to. As far as I'm concerned, If Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand have such power to irritate Daily Mail readers, they should both be given a knighthood.

Thanks for the suggestions five bellies but I found an email address for the Dimplex technical department and had a reply to say that it should be attended to by a qualifies technician. My dad did that in the end and it was discovered that overheating had caused a problem in the box that the mains wire emerges from. I have put similar ones right in the past by merely pushing the reset button, which this one was supposed to have, but they must have altered the design after the instruction leaflet was printed.

Thanks Sandpiper, but Google doesn't seem to come up with anything. I can see the two metal strips, but they have absolutely nothing on them to reset.

Has anybody got one of these. My father's stopped working, so after looking at the instructions, I removed the front panel to press the reset button - except it hasn't got one. The surrounding mechanism looks exactly like the one in the illustration, but there is quite definitely no button there, or even anything remotely resembling one - zilch, not even a tiny one.

I believe that in the most wealthy circles of Ancient Rome, paedophilia, bestiality and homosexuality was all considered jolly good fun amongst the upper echelons. I suppose the poorer classes had far more to occupy their minds, such as feeding themselves and avoiding execution. I suppose it all depends on your place in history and the morals of the time. I'm sure there are still places in the modern world where any of the above activities are deemed less criminal than having sex with someone of a different colour. I have heard that in America, many girls subscribe to a vow of chastity, yet oral and anal sex aren't regarded as proper sex. I think it's called "the ring thing".

I refuse to change mine. I'm gonna go it alone.

Regarding the question asking what will humans eventually look like, my answer is simply, "Who cares?". As to the supposition that a god must have created the universe out of absolutely nothing - why? That is making the assumption that everything has to have a beginning and an end, because that is all our experience has allowed our brains to understand. What if everything really is infinite or else repeats infinitely with no boundaries? Just because our brains aren't capable of grasping that concept, it doesn't mean that it isn't possible. To state otherwise is simply an example of either the ignorance or the arrogance of the human species. Some people refuse to acknowledge the possibility that the laws of nature don't conform to the ways in which the human brain can interpret them, so they have to fill the hole in their understanding with something called God. The human brain is an extremely primitive organ. Live with it.

There have been barbel in the Nene and Welland for a great many years. They used to breed in the Welland in a stretch at West Deeping, but they have been killed off by water abstraction and corresponding low flows. Several hundred were stocked into what was once a fairly strong flowing stretch at Market Deeping, but these days it almost slows to a standstill at times. The Nene around Yarwell is almost ideal for barbel - as long as they don't keep pumping all of the water out of the river.

I know of a small, spring-fed water where carp used to go through the motions but not produce any fry, but generally speaking they breed like fury. I used to fish a water where in late July, you could catch 2 inch carp on a maggot in the margins within seconds of casting in. By the late autumn there wasn't any evidence that they had ever been there. I think that between them, the carp, perch and grebes manage to wipe out 99% of them. I have heard that at Claydon and Woburn, it used to be possible to catch juvenile catfish, merely by sweeping a net through the margins. I also know of a lake in South Lincs where they have definitely bred.