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Don't care how many lanes, if it's a single carriageway - pull over at the next safe opportunity, and let us all get past! Very rare to do any journey these days during daylight hours and not be in a long snake of traffic, who the hell is at the front of these queues eh? (Bet they got a hat on!) Well - its not me unless I'm driving the big toys, and they are either slow enough to pass easily or we pull into every lay by and junction we can to let others pass (wish Cycles , Tractors and JCB drivers would these days). I've now a short 11 mile commute to work, If I get behind a slowcoach it can take twice as long, but why is it whenever a slowcoach comes to a junction or roundabout they go straight on - you then have to stop and wait for a funfair to go past? Anywhos, enough of my rants! got to get somewhere I have, where's me hat?

Addendum 18B to the highway code 1997 (revised) If you are proceeding on the highway, dual carriageway or motorway and no vehicles are in front of you:- . You are the front of the queue, . . . Move the f**k over and let all the people who want to get somewhere get on with it you tw*t.

The 'Shalhambra' people movers are hard to beat in 'estate car' mode (leave out the rear seats and use load cover). Huge load area and no intrusion of stuff into the seating area. (although you can load spilt in 1/3rds!) The Seat Alhambra version is great value to, you get a VW for a lot less dosh, The Diesel uses the golf lump and will go on for ages - manuals will use less juice than a Volvo to - had V70 on hire the other month lovely motor but had to fill up twice just to get to Norwich and back! Things to watch out for with the Shalhambras - Air con, Central locking, & Suspension worn, interior fittings take a bashing form little paws and knees. Spares are cheap - and easy to get as most are standard Golf / Passat bits. And this is very hard to beat - you can get a 12ft rod in made up! Mines a great motor - only wish it was diesel and not 10 yrs old & 130K miles. (Oh - and they all come with 'family man' in big white letters on the side) PS. DO NOT GET THE FORD VERSION - you get a ford engine and ford dealers (been there - will not be repeating the experience thanks)

Mild spicy burgers: lean minced beef finely diced onion fresh ground pepper diced red pepper teaspoon of garum massala teaspoon of chilli powder or Curry powder Good splodge of tommy puree tablespoon of mango chutney egg mix in big bowl with fork sprinkle on plain flour until nice and firm mix mold into patties with paws on floured plate leave in fridge 1/2 day light up your BBQ, wait till seriously hot.... insert cold beer into paw place burgers onto BBQ Insert another cold beer * yak with pals, feel your womans ass Insert another cold beer * Remove burgers and place into breaded receptical of your choosing. Enjoy..... (* ensures correct cooking times;)

Another Virgin vote here, Recently moved to the Metropolis that is Bournemouth and called Virgin about the £30 package they do, came and hooked me up 3 days later (tues after bank hol). All worked out of the box although I supplied my own wireless router to plug into the supplied cable one. Now here's the cunning bit - it would seem you can negotiate with them! - my girlfriend talked to them and has got us free calls 24/7 on the phone! So we have BB, Telephone (with no £11 PCM ripoff charge to BT) and TV package for £30 PCM and I'm seriously thinking of adding a mobile to the mix for another £10. I expect if I didnt have cable I'd go for the Sky £26 package - but with £11 to goto BT each month on top - and your BB will be provided by BT - so you must be close to your exchange to get decent speed. Oh- speed on my BB line - excellent 2Mb, all the time, no throttling, no probs, if I wanted I rekon I could swap the 24/7 calls for 8Mb BB, but to be honest it's the websites slowing down the web most the time now. PS - Tiscali who I used to be with are offering a £20 PCM calls and BB package in some areas - very good value as you do not pay BT the ripoff £11 PCM rental. I'm signing the wife up for that one! (some of you may have noticed a change in my domestic arrangements! - a lot can happen in a year;)

Is the burnt bit of cable the bit connecting to the big Heater element terminals? If so - then yup your terminal needs a good scrub. 2.5mm sq is fine to a standard 3Kw element. Many use 'ring' terminals - make sure you crimp the new ones on properly - not with one of those crappy blade type lucas hand tools. If its a connection further back:- then the terminal may be the wrong size - or again needs replacing - as once fried they never connect well again, I'd fit a 16/20 or 32A terminal block if thats the case.

'chum' type dog biccys are great bait on the top or on a hair off the bottom. You can either superglue them to your finger (and the hook) or carefully drill them (drill a little through one side and then all the way through the other). OR: Use the patented 'hot rubbery dog biccy' recipt: Take qty of fav dog biccys, place in sandwich bag or FPO's best tupperware container, splash on a little boiling water. Stick in microwave on full power for N times X + 5secs (N= biccys x mass of biccy) X = qty of water. (Give it a bloody try yourself!) - I find about 50 biccys and about 2 Tbls water for 30 secs...... When 'cooked' they have been steamed, CAUTION HOT STEAMING DOG BICCYS! Smells horrible unless your names Rex When cool and if you got your water/biccy mix correct you will have rubbery easy to hook or hair dog biccys. NB make sure you also use these as freebies as they look a touch different to dry biccys on the water. Also - check out your local pet food store for the big mixer biscuits and mixed types sold loose - all cost a lot less than 'chumies' and work great. As for 'twos', I often fish a 'two' biccy rig, one often gets nicked which leaves you with the single to carry on with but I've noticed the odd fish shy off the double - but they cant resist and come back later! Also - a double on a pulley rig is a good way to floater fish at distance - if you like watching your bait through binos! NNNB: always have your rod in your hand, bail arm open or use an alarm - floater hits can be very violent and rods have been lost by experienced anglers when watching the water and not the bait. I use the 'open bail arm - line tucked under a rubber band' safety method, still get the odd snatch that makes me jump!

don't have the pump running when bleeding rads - you will suck in air! As Den says - do you have an old gravity feed system or 'system boiler' with a pressure gauge on it?

could well just be BIOS backup battery is dead? And once changed just set bios to your HDD's requirements? Also you may have a PSU problem in your machine, lots of flaky ones around this month, temps went up/down/up/down rapid like. When diagnosing drive problems I now use a USB drive adaptor (£10 from Ebay) this will work 2.5" 3" IDE and Sata drives on a working system, allows me to harvest files from very iffy disks and virus scans them if transfering to a new drive.

par boil em like dog biccys, place some in a sandwich bag, drop in a little boiling water, microwave for a minute or so. WARNING very hot steamed cat/dog biscuits!! If you got the quantity of biscuit to water to microwave timing right: when the biscuit cools it will be rubbery - easy to hook but will not fall apart. Great bait when you can get carp on the top, works well off the bottom as well!

Kryston 'Bogey' particle fixer would probably do the job?

Hengemaster, sounds like your on my old beats! I was at Durrington before moving south, Fished Avon Springs when it first opened and the next few years, had some nice fish in there. The bit below Avon springs still public?? Salisbury club had more chalkstream than you could shake a rod at to. The rod box (Winch & Salisbury?) used to have day beats on the Anton at reasonable prices. Down this way the Piddle has some fine beats available, think the lakes at Kings Sombourne had some river as well. Think Timsbury is good value though, you do fish 'The Test' and some very fine fishing it is to, As Tony says the carriers on a light rod is great sport, and you may be lucky and connect with a seatrout or two.

Carrier is probably the Anton, a fine chalkstream itself, doubt its the Bourne - that costs more than the Test! Cheapest bit I know of is the council stretch in Romsey, look at Test Valley Borough Councils website for more info. Know anyone who work for John Lewis or IBM? both got good beats. http://www.testvalley.gov.uk/Default.aspx?page=5577

Did 6 months of it Ayjay, I went straight to bed @ 6:30 after work, woke PM and dinner with family before going to work at 6PM (4x 12 hour shifts), only real probs were first few 03:00's and weekends when things were downside up! - & remember to get some kip on the day before starting work.

Stick a wood screw through the dial, that'l stop her! Kept finding mine on 25 deg, changed it to a digital one now that tells 'em the temp - cant argue with it even if they are cold - put a jumper on?

I like the tapered leaders and just tie on a length of 3 or 6lb double strength of flouro when its got shorter due to fly changes, all my leaders start as a tapered 'butt' and then may have upto a rods length of 'tippit' on the end. PS for a quick and dirty tippit knot just take both lines and lay them parallel, take 5 twists and stick the ends thro the loop, not full strength like bloods but V quick when you want to get a fly out.

having shelled out £5 per hour for access in m way services and hotels I think its a great idea, some blocks of flats do the same - just everyone uses the same password etc and then you can use your laptop in the coffee bar, or laundrette etc. But I admit to searching for unsecured points and using them if i'm away, if it were £1 per hour i would'nt mind or say £5 for 24 hours. BT even charges its own workers to use WiFi on BT sites! again £5 for an hour and a half, although if you are a BT Fusion customer it's free. Hotels are the worst here for overcharging - although in France it's often free, libra gratis!

Timeguard do radio chimes that work with PIR lamps & detectors http://www.timeguard.com/products/lighting...ing-controllers

Timeguard also do a heck of a range or PIR sensors with remote chimes etc - good RF coding to, I have some at work where each spotlight makes the next turn on and a chime / alarm goes off as well, very good for keeping the yobs at bay. http://cpc.farnell.com/jsp/endecaSearch/pa...jsp?SKU=SR05939 Pressure switches are a PITA.

http://www.maplin.co.uk/module.aspx?Module...y=26m3#overview Door chime is what you want Ken.

the breakaway cable is used to pull the brakes on a trailer or caravan of over 750Kg on if it decouples, it is not and should not keep the trailer attached to the vehicle - they are designed to break. whereas the chain chesters mentioned may sometimes be used to keep the trailer attached to the vehicle should you pop the coupling, still is used when towing by hook - tractors etc. We dont get many ball joints poping off any more, they are sprung loaded to keep the ball in the socket and 2" Ball sockets are very rare - but put a 50mm ball in a 2" socket & you are asking for trouble!! (0.8mm of trouble)

You can tow any trailer as long as the laden weight is below 750Kg - without a breakaway cable. If you are towing a trailer of 750Kg+ then it must be have brakes and you must fit a breakaway cable which will only pull the brakes on if the coupling disconnects. Very few brakaways occur nowadays as very few vehicles have 50mm balls and 2" couplings! http://www.towsure.com/category/7191 http://www.ntta.co.uk/ also you must check the towing capacity of your motor.

Marriage: A man met a beautiful lady and he decided he wanted to marry her right away. She protested, "But we don't know anything about each other." He replied, "That's all right; we'll learn about each other as we go along." So she eventually consented, and they were married, went on a honeymoon to a very nice & hot resort. One morning, they were lying by the pool when he got up off his towel, climbed up to the 10-meter board and did a two and a half tuck somersault, entered the water perfectly, almost without a ripple. This was followed by three rotations in jackknife position before he again straightened out and cut the water like a knife. After a few more demonstrations, he came back and lay down on his towel. She said, "That was incredible!" He said, "I used to be an Olympic diving champion. You see, I told you we'd learn more about ourselves as we went along." So she got up, jumped in the pool and started doing laps. She was moving so fast that the froth from her pushing off at one end of the pool would hardly be gone before she was already touching the other end of the pool. She did laps in freestyle, breaststroke, even butterfly! After about thirty laps, completed in mere minutes, she climbed back out and lay down on her towel beside her new husband, barely breathing hard. He said, "That was incredible! Were you an Olympic distance swimmer?" . . . . . . "No", she said, "I was a prostitute in Plymouth and I worked both sides of the harbour"…….

If we're talking worst #1's then 'Mull of Kintyre' has got to be the worst, what an absolute dirge, and from a bloke who is proper talented like too.

As with any auction, it's worth what the last bider before the winner bid!