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verminologist ? Bet this causes some arguments I had a colleage a few years back who had major major verminophobia. I was outside work one day - a wet autumn evening - having a smoke break when she came out to speak to me. The ground was covered with brown wiggly stems fallen from the conker tree nearby. After a mo she shrieked and ran inside. Turned out she had spotted the one real worm among about 200 worm-like things on the ground.

Oops. I know what I must do Thanks again !

I've kept them in the fridge loads of times during hot weather. No problem at all. I've also dug over many a damp veggie patch in winter* and found it heaving with lobs. How on earth could they object to cool conditions? *yeah yeah I know already I should have done it in autumn

Hi again Cory. I was so busy looking for complicated codes that I missed the big fat AT/R printed on the tyre wall. Also spotted "Treadwear 340" and "Traction A" in small letters. Looking around 4x4 tyre reviews and the like, these tyres don't seem very well regarded for everyday road driving, so I'll be changing in the autumn.

Thanks folks. I'll see if there are any more recommendations, check out prices and then order something from our tyre place. Cory - the current tyres are Goodyear Wrangler 205/75R15. Just had an email from the original owner who reckons he was just sold the hardest-wearing tyres available at the time (the current ones I mean). He also had grip problems on normal surfaces. The local guy who had the car in between kept quiet about all this cheers

Hi all. Hoping for some advice on tyres for a Kia Sportage 4x4 I have no interest at all in real off-road driving. Nearest I get is stony tracks over the hills, but they're really just bad roads not 'off-road' We live in Greece up a wickedly steep, narrow, winding concrete track. Sometimes slimy with fallen leaves. The road round our village is equally bad. I bought the 4x4 with a view to getting maximum traction in dodgy weather but I'm told the tyres fitted are suited to off-roading rather than maximum grip. The tyres are Goodyear Wrangler 205/75R15, in very good condition. While driving in the Athens area where the roads I suppose are permanently smeared with rubber, the car was generating tyre-squeal left right and centre with no provocation at all. Gently pulling away, braking and turning - horrific squeal, like when you're driving round a multi-storey car park. The main roads where we live get little traffic and I don't get the same problem at all. I'd be very grateful for any advice on the best tyres for our situation. Cost is not a huge deal as we do *very* little mileage, but within reason cheers

We get replacements /topups for all our (many ) printers from www.inksave.co.uk. Whether they're the cheapest I don't know but the service is very fast and reliable. Which is worth a bit in my book.

Good work. This is well nippy.

At 36 you are 'youth' Nice report kid. I reckon there's good money to be made from carpless lakes. "No carp? Where? How much? Hurrah!" Glenn (age 58 and a half)

I have no idea , but Google is probably your friend Just put +barbel +witham or +barbel +lincolnshire nto a search and you might be pleasantly surprised. Catching my first barbel was my second biggest angling thrill, after that first pike. Tight barbelly lines !

Personally I haven't got the attention span for Twenty20. Looking forward to Five5. Or how about One1, with 6 different bowlers bowling a ball each?? Could do the entire tournamant in a day and go off and watch some proper cricket!

After lengthy investigation (3 mins on Wiki) I can't find any evidence for this. Where did you get the idea in the first place ?

Not an entirely fair comment, Peter, if I understand you correctly. My old AA book allowed me to fish several parts of the lower Bristol Avon, not the entire river or even a single long stretch of it. For example, I could never have taken a 5-mile walk casting at every desirable spot. For an angler this is little inconvenience, for a canoeist it would effectively make life impossible.

Conceivably - just conceivably - if your canoeing involved paddling over shallows and disturbing fish eggs in the gravel then there might be a technical point. In reality - even with the paddles and canoe grounding somewhat - the barbel population would not be inconvenienced one iota. Each fish probably lays 000's of eggs. Even "disturbed" eggs don't automatically die. And a huge proportion of eggs and fry get gobbled up anyway, one way or another. These people have it in for canoeists and are using any excuse available to hammer them. They have a personal agenda. p.s. I am no canoeist and never have been. Most of my angling vs. canoe experiences have been somewhat negative, so I have no vested interest in defending canoeists per se. But b/s is b/s . p.p.s. Consider the odds of a canoeist (or many) altering the balance of the barbel population vs. an angler (or many) doing the same by accidentally or carelessly causing the death of a prime female barbel due to spawn? Hmmmm..... right, let's ban angling. Could harm the fish populations! Poop.

$495 and it's 'out of stock' ???? If I could sell knives at $495 I would *never* be out of stock ( just double-checked it was 495.00 and not 49.50. Yep )

Let me get this straight .... Canoeing down a river is supposed to upset the barbels' spawning? Are they serious? This is *much* less of a disturbance to the barbel than a lengthy summer downpour raising the river by a foot. And I mean **much** less. A few gentle paddles and you're gone. These people are taking the mick, surely, or there's some other agenda afoot.

Some years back I started suffering from prickly heat when I began to use high-factor sun screens when abroad on holiday (Med). Shoulders and upper arms mostly. No groundbait involved though. But this is strictly anecdotal evidence Blocked sweat glands seem to be the issue, but there's no mention of finely-ground wheat products at : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miliaria

Strewth! It's been so long since I looked at the coarse forum that I didn't notice this topic. What a brilliant forum this is. When I signed up I was about 50 and hadn't fished for over 20 years. Inspired by all the fishing chat and advice flying around on AN I'd soon caught my first tench, carp, pike and barbel. Even now my one real regret about becoming an ex-pat is the lack of rivers over here. I sometimes wistfully look through the folder of fishing photos on my PC, going all misty-eyed. AN has this effect on people Here's wishing you many more years. Or chronia polla as we say in these parts

Well, wallet, hefty keyring, loose change, fags+lighter and other bits+pieces are a right nuisance stuffed into trouser pockets on a hot day. So it's a bum-bag for me, every time Trouble with handbags is that half the blokes in the world would lose theirs at least once a day.

Assuming you're aiming to cut entire rectangular holes in the tiles, to sit over the socket hole (and have the socket plate sitting on top of the tile) ? I would have thought that the 4" grinder would do nearly all of the job on the short side of the hole. Start grinding in the middle of the line to be cut and work downwards then outwards. If the hole is less than 4" high you can work from the other side of the tile until you're almost into the corner and finish off the last tiny bit with the jigsaw. If no jigsaw, then have the grinder cuts overshoot a fraction - both sides of the tile - to complete the cut. The socket plate will hide that little untidiness. Hope that makes sense

Rabbit is extremely low in fat. About as low as it gets in fact, as far as meat is concerned. I know zip about jerky-making but there seems to be plenty of rabbit jerky recipes out there on the interwebs ....

My bolding. You seem not to have got as far as the second sentence I wrote, given that you go on to repeat the very same point.

Monumental piffle, Emma. They have as much protein as any meat. Protein is an essential component of any human dietery scheme. That one might eventually die a lingering death (though not "starve to death") on a diet of pure rabbit - through lack of minerals, vitamins, certain fats, trace elements etc - is a totally different matter.

Does this mean that all mercenaries serving in the Brit Forces will gain the right of abode for self and family in the UK? Or just the cute ones?

Good plan The catch with hair-rigging 10 maggots on a maggot clip is that you get 30 minnows attacking your "bait" all at once. Mob-handed, them minnows can amount to an actual bite.