bushwacker

Hiya every-one, I was out with the camper van last week end and had the fridge do a wobbly and it kind of got it the wrong way round and got hot instead of cold. Has any-one got a 3 way fridge with the following MAXIMUM outside dimensions for sale? 24.5" high, 19.25" wide & 18.75" deep. Thanks every-one.

And to get the curve at the front and back i will use ply wood and fill the front with polystyrine sheet and sand it to the required shape then plaster it lightly then sand again and then coating it in fiber glass. If you can get some A better option for the modeling of the shape/contour would be to use some of the modelling foam that is used in the motor industry called styro-foam. It is much easier to model and shape than polystyrene, it is though a little bit less knock resistant. if you get your profile and then coat it with body filler, then use a glass resin etc and matting to build the strength. If at all possible try to get hold of some gell coat to finally paint over this to make it water tight, as matting and resin is NOT water proof and will over a fairly short period of time will allow an ingress of the dreaded water. I will try to get hold af some styrofoam suppliers names and addresses for you, as we use it at work for modelling new machines etc. Phill.

Personally I use Klin-ik. When I first started using an antiseptic it was the only one that was readily available over the tackle shop counter, so theres the reason that I use it. I have not tried using bonjela although I may do so later this season when the Klin-ik is used up. I was also told that you can use Fryers Balsam in the same way but I am not sure if it's correct or not.

Peggy, I had the same one by the sound of it on Thursday. I sent it to the "SPOOF", and I got a reply late last night saying that it was a hoax thing. I am like you in that I don't open any thing from them unless it is when I have just purchased from some one on ebay. I had one a little while ago sayiny something about the items that I was selling needed me to get in touch with ebay "via the following link". I thought, thats good I've never had any-thing for sale on ebay, they must be mighty good to know what I'm selling before I do.

Quite simple really. Try rolling a square one on a rolling table. You can of course make square sided ones by rolling out your mix, may be with a rolling pin to give a "sheet", rather like pastry, then cut it into your squares/rectangles, then cook in the normal way for round one's. You can also make a sausage (spelling?) shape and then cut them to length, then cook in the same way.

Well I think that I will go along your view, I am NOT convinced that it is an Adder at all. Still won't play about with one tho' Looking in the books that we have, this one is more like a grass snake than any thing else, the head does tho' look a bit Adder'ish...................the "swellings" if you like on the side of the head are a bit similar to the shape of venom sacks. The lack of the yellow band behind the head seems to be a bit strange to me, but as you say it may be from the sub species. Where I live there is a fair bit of heath type land, mainly over granite, and I seen have an Adder or two but not a lot I have to admit. and they always seemed to be a lot fatter and shorter than the snake that we saw last week end. I remember seeing one that was a definate sandy colour with either black or very dark brown markings, can't say that I noticed the V on the head at the time tho, I moved back from it a bit nippy.

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MJB, I will have a look at the pics on my sons camera tomorrow if I can, it zooms in to some thing silly so will be able to tell more I hope, but from what I remember when looked last week-end it had a round pupil to the eye. I will get back to you if and when I find what you want to know to finally identify it. We have both been looking at the Forestry commisions web site and in the few books that I have with British snakes in, and it would look more likely to me to be a grass snake than an Adder, but I still wouldn't put money on it either way yet. Believe me tho' I still wouldn't play with it even if I was sure it was a grass snake. Some-one once told me that they were bitten by a grass snake because they were playing about with it, and they got a nasty infection from the bite. Possible I suppose, but their own fault in my opinion.

Thanks to you yet again Huge Vitae, thats how I wanted it to look, you will have to give me lessons. If you look closely at the head you can see what MAY BE venom sacks, it had orange eyes with the pupil bit black, if that helps any one identify it. It wasn't too pleased when I touched it with a stick and knew that it was me at the side of it and not my son who was in front of it taking the pics, at about 5ft away, and spun round to face me and gave one heck of a hissing sound. It also puffed itself up to make it self look bigger and more threatening. I by the way touched it on the side furthest away from me not on the nearest side, but it still new it was me poking it. It slipped through the grass at a great rate of knots, and dropped into the water only to come near enough straight out again about 6 ft along the bank, but we then lost sight if it. Ferret, have you seen any adders round your way as the snake pictured was in Syston, on the top tench lake. Glad you all like the pics.

I had a Intrepid Monach as a youngster. I think that I was over joyed with it if I remember rightly. I too went along the Mitchell route as soon as I could afford to do so, my first Mitchells being 320's. They were not very good for a budding carper, but the 300 soon came within my reach, as did the 410. I have 14 mithell reels now up to the highlight of my collection a Match that my wife bought me new, out of her mail order catalogue for a birthday present. Most of my collection has come from ebay, but 4 are from original purchases, when I had got the money to buy them. I still have my first "Good Quality" float rod too, a Sealey Black Arrow 10ft, with original bag AND the black plastic bung, cost me a kings ransome it seemed at the time, but now have 2 others from the same time, a further 10ft and a 12ft.

Went last Thursday evening and did the 24 hrs till friday. Had 2 pick ups but they amounted to nothing, my son had 1 single bleep but that was that for him aswell. Got some good pics of a grass snake tho', 1 of them is on the non fishing chat, entitled "look what I nearly trod on". Not that it turned out very good on there mind you.

Would any one be kind enough to resize it for me please?

Sorry I don't appear to have got the image size quite right, it's a bit small will try again Ho Hum, I still can't get it right, so you will have to look at in that size.

Went fishing this week Thursdat thro' Friday evening. When we went for a little walk to have a look around and see where on the lake we fancied fishing. Just through the gate along one side of the lake my son said "Hey look at that", he nipped back to his car to get his camera and here's the offending creature, approx 3ft long, and when I moved it puffed itself up to make itself look bigger, shot round to face me and hissed like a good un'. I was over the moon to see it so close up, as I only usually get the sight of them as they swim across the water. We didn't catch, but I think was a result in itself.

Thanks Leon and Elton. I wasn't coing to reply just wondered what the duce was going on, as I don't normally get things like this. Phill.

Thanks Budgie, I have learnt some thing else there. The needle by the way is just a ordinary needle not a latch needle, or as you call it a gated needle. They make millions of latch needles by the way in a town very close to me. I don't use super glue on any of my knots, as 1. if they are tied correctly they don't come undone & 2. No one has ever proven that the glue does do any damage to line, or that fish can't smell,taste it. I couldn't agree with you more on the death rig tether either, but there again I along with you and a great many others aren't a fish at all costs angler. Andrew, your post has helped more than you my friend. Phill.

Thats even better mate, glad you sorted yourself out.

This seems a bit wierd to me, see what you think. I have just had a email supossedly from the team at pay pal, saying that I have added an email address to my account, also it mentions a forgotten password. Strange this as I have only used my paypall accont once, and theres no funds in it anyway. Whats going on do you think? is it some slime ball trying to get my funds from the account? or just a genuine thing (that I doubt ) from pay pal.

The problem with aluminium based alloy castings is that once bent out of there original shape, they gain memory due to the molecules in the metal taking on a new path/pattern, this they can only do once, and straightening creates minute fractures that CANNOT be stress relieved by heat that a diyer will be able to offer. It needs to be heated at a constant rate up to temperature, and then cooled down at a predetermined rate, stopping at differing temperatures for differing lengths of time to allow it to releave the stresses that are now there. (sometimes a blow with a hammer is even used, But this very often causes other problems in the make up of the alloy) If you can get hold of a TEMP stick then you may be able to see what the temp is to a very rough figure, but to heat it to the temperature required for stress releaving is not possible in a domestic oven, even though you can heat a smallish casting enough for a bearing to be removed, very often it will even fall out if the casting is in the correct plane. If you decide to cut it and modify the length the the best way to rejoin weld it is using a process called tig welding, (tungsten inert gas). The old oxy-acetelene method is way out of date, and of inferior quality to to-days standards, the yealding of the meterial next to the weld being quite weak compared to tig, as not a lot of people can still do the old way.

Budgie, when you say "needle knot" do you mean the same type that fly anglers use? I've never used that knot myself, for no other reason than I hadn't given that one any thought (so thats what the needle in the tub of Kryston leadcore is for then). If it is that one, then I may well try it out for myself. I always thought that leadcore's main reason was to keep the end few feet of the presentation pinned to the bottom, and a secondary advantage was the tubing effect of protecting the fish from damage, you learn something new every day. When you say that you put a swivel on the back end do you mean the end that I use as a loop to loop, to the main line? The reason I ask is that I can't get it into my head how the lead clip will pass over the swivel at this end. Can you explain that bit please? What i'm struggleing to understand is if you put the safety clip the other side of the swivel, as on main line side then you have your lead 4ft plus away from the hook, if I follow correctly what you mean. I've probably got it wrong what you mean, knowing me.

Attempt no 2 at a reply, just typed it out and then immediatley deleted it stupid or what!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Andrew my way of doing it................................................ 1. Cut off a length of leadcore to the required/desired length, I usually use about 4ft. 2. Pull the outer braiding back about 3in and remove the lead from inside, it breaks easily and is usefull for making critically balanced/snowman rigs. 3. Thread a splicing needle through the side wall of the "tube" and follow the iternal dia util it pops out of the end. 4. Grab the floppy end of the braid and capture it in the latch of the needle, and slowly and carefully pull this back through until the braid is just out of the little entry hole that you made with the needle on its way in, and detatch the needle carefully, to create a loop of the size for a loop to loop attachment. 5. Now do similarly to the other end, only this time I put a link swivel onto this loop, and then you have the leadcore as I use it. When I set up at the lake I use a loop to loop on my main line to leadcore, but before doing this I slide the leadcore through a safety lead clip, and seat this onto the link swivel. I tie my rigs at home with an ordinary swivel, so that they can be changed easily with a swivel to link swivel attachment in case I need to change rig type or a broken hook etc. I personally use Kryston leadcore as I find it the easiest for me to splice, that tiny stuff is (well I've got fingers like Mars bars, so ) too fiddly for me to tie. I also use Korda safety lead clips as these seem to slide over the loop to loop knot very easily, well works for. I hope that makes sense to you, but I feel sure that Gaffer has written an article on it at some time so a search may produce a clearer explaination of it. I will send you a sample of how I tie them if you would like me to do so, just let me know and it will be on it's way a.s.a.p. Please note that if I for one minute thought that this method af attachment was unsafe then I would never ever use it. Phill.

Thanks Newt, I thought that you and Jan would like it.

HISTORICAL DATA ACCORDING TO CHILDREN note from the US - 5th & 6th grades are 10-11 y/o kids The following excerpts are actual answers given on history tests and in Sunday school quizzes by children between 5th and 6th grade, in Ohio. They were collected over a period of three years by two teachers. Read carefully for grammar, misplaced modifiers, and of course, spelling! Ancient Egypt was old. It was inhabited by gypsies and mummies who all wrote in hydraulics. They lived in the Sarah Dessert. The climate of the Sarah is such that all the inhabitants have to live elsewhere. Moses led the Hebrew slaves to the Red Sea where they made unleavened bread, which is bread made without any ingredients. Moses went up on Mount Cyanide to get the ten commandos. He died before he ever reached Canada but his commandos made it. Solomon had three hundred wives and seven hundred porcupines. He was an actual hysterical figure as well as being in the bible. It sounds like he was sort of busy too. The Greeks were a highly sculptured people, and without them we wouldn't have history. The Greeks also had myths. A myth is a young female moth. Socrates was a famous old Greek teacher who went around giving people advice. They killed him. He later died from an overdose of wedlock which is apparently poisonous. After his death, his career suffered a dramatic decline. In the first Olympic games, Greeks ran races, jumped, hurled biscuits, and threw the java. The games were messier then than they show on TV now. Julius Caesar extinguished himself on the battlefields of Gaul. The Ides of March murdered him because they thought he was going to be made king. Dying, he gasped out "Same to you, Brutus." Joan of Arc was burnt to a steak and was canonized by Bernard Shaw for reasons I don't really understand. The English and French still have problems. Queen Elizabeth was the "Virgin Queen". As a queen she was a success. When she exposed herself before her troops they all shouted "hurrah!" and that was the end of the fighting for a long while. It was an age of great inventions and discoveries. Gutenberg invented removable type and the Bible. Another important invention was the circulation of blood. Sir Walter Raleigh is a historical figure because he invented cigarettes and started smoking. Sir Francis Drake circumcised the world with a 100-foot clipper which was very dangerous to all his men. The greatest writer of the Renaissance was William Shakespeare. He was born in the year 1564, supposedly on his birthday. He never made much money and is famous only because of his lays. He wrote tragedies, comedies, and hysterectomies, all in Islamic pentameter. Writing at the same time as Shakespeare was Miguel Cervantes. He wrote Donkey Hote. The next great author was John Milton. Milton wrote Paradise Lost. Since then no one ever found it. Delegates from the original 13 states formed the Contented Congress. Thomas Jefferson, a Virgin, and Benjamin Franklin were two singers of the Declaration of Independence. Franklin discovered electricity by rubbing two cats backward and also declared, "A horse divided against itself cannot stand." He was a naturalist for Sure. Franklin died in 1790 and is still dead. Abraham Lincoln became America's greatest Precedent. Lincoln's Mother died in infancy, and he was born in a log cabin which he built with his own hands. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves by signing the Emasculation Proclamation. On the night of April 14, 1865, Lincoln went to the theater and got Shot in his seat by one of the actors in a moving picture show. They believe the assinator was John Wilkes Booth, a supposingly insane actor. This ruined Booth's career. Johann Bach wrote a great many musical compositions and had a large number of children. In between he practiced on an old spinster which he kept up in his attic. Bach died from 1750 to the present. Bach was the most famous composer in the world and so was Handel. Handel was half German, half Italian, and half English. He was very large. Bethoven wrote music even though he was deaf. He was so deaf that he wrote loud music and became the father of rock and roll. He took long walks in the forest even when everyone was calling for him. Bethoven expired in 1827 and later died for this. The nineteenth century was a time of a great many thoughts and inventions. People stopped reproducing by hand and started reproducing by machine. The invention of the steamboat caused a network of rivers to spring up. Louis Pasteur discovered a cure for rabbits but I don't know why. Charles Darwin was a naturalist. He wrote the Organ of the Species. It was very long and people got upset about it and had trials to see if it was really true. He sort of said God's days were not just 24 hours but without watches who knew anyhow? I don't get it. Madman Curie discovered radio. She was the first woman to do what she did. Other women have become scientists since her but they didn't get to find radios because they were already taken. Karl Marx was one of the Marx Brothers. The other three were in the movies. Karl made speeches and started revolutions. Someone in the family had to have a job, I guess.

quote by word bender I've got some rabbit joints marinading in Chinese taste powder at the moment. They'll be lightly fried then slo-cooked with veggies and dumplings as part of a superb stew. Top scoff. Please mate let me come round and share that with you , I haven't had a decent rabbit dish since my mum died a few years ago. No one else in the family likes rabbit, and to be honest I can't cook one, but I can gut and skin them.

QUOTE(Ian FG @ Mar 8 2006, 03:28 PM) to be a town you need a town hall and a mayor We have a town hall but no mayor. Population at the 2001 census was 4132. Town by Saxon charter, see. Oh, and getting back on topic, we have a cop-shop. There's a telephone outside it, which I'm led to believe will put me through to a call centre somewhere, which may eventually allow me to speak to a copper perhaps only ten or twenty miles away... Er.. the town next to the village I live in, has no town hall, and no mayor either. It has a police station that is the same as that with a phone outside the door so that they know who they are letting in "just for their safety you understand, (I thought it should be full of policemen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ) It is also unmaned from midnight Friday till midnight Sunday, good that one I think. The nearest manned police station is some 8 miles away, and having to use fairly rural roads to get the afore mentioned town takes them awhile to get to any inccidents. Ferret, you did 100% the right thing, especialy as you kept your self safe at the same time. They were breaking the law and thats that. I noticed that some one had put that ignorance of the law was an excuse, get real, that could be used as a defence for anyone for darned nigh anything. The law actually states that ignorace is no excuse or defence.