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It would be really interesting to know what percentage of the cr4p that we import from China is toys for our children. My wee dude who's 8 has got me well sussed, I have a pure flakey every time he gets one of the overpackaged, franchised pieces of landfill fodder as a present. "another piece o...

My mum used to get them and do the patterns all the time when I was a lad I'm 51 now so someone must be able to do them or they'd have gone out of bussiness years ago. Though as a 10 year old they seemed awfully confusing to me

Cheers, Paul

Some of my reasons are similar to those of Annpan, Camillitech and Wombat, but there are two more and one's very important. My blog (and this forum) are my two main means of meeting other like-minded people and exchanging ideas, hints, tips and rants. While I live in a rural area, we're a long way ...

Sorry the wee pig didn't make it. You did your best, you can't do any more than that TG.

Paul

I started mine because I've kept a diary for over 20 years and this year I forgot to buy one :roll: it's not like i can go to the corner shop and get one. I'm not sure why I kept a diary because I don't know where i've put them ( apart from one from 15/16 years ago) I've always kept diving logs and ...

We're 10 miles from anywhere so mrs C does 12k a year just taking the dude to school :shock: Me I'm lucky cos I work week on week off so can get away with half that mileage but short of taking the dude down to school at 7:00am and bringing him back at 7:00pm I can't see how we can reduce it, though ...

Thurston Garden wrote:
Paul - thanks for the plug! I read all of your blog yesterday and was almost late for a cash earning opporchancity as a result Am gonna put you on ma blogroll!

Thanks TG, glad you enjoyed the blog and good luck with the MOT

Cheers, Paul

Hi MMM, Magnetic north is where a compass points and it alters constantly around 1/2 a degree of longitude eastwards every year at the mo (I think) and the position can change by up to 40km in a year, That's why you won't find it in an atlas or on a map as it's constantly changing with the fluctuati...

I knew they went to magnetic north pole - they said that - but I thought you meant they were filming in Iceland or somewhere completely different! So they really were where they said they were then. :? Having been on the sea and about charts most my working life I always understood the north pole t...

Start preparing now chaps, buy a house on a hill or even a caravan with a bit of land , in the middle of nowhere, preferably with a little stream and some woodland. Then get a firearm certificate whilst you still can :wink: Personally I don't think it will be as bad as Martin thinks but I'm not tak...

OMG are you saying that the Top Gear team didn't drive to the North Pole? Where were they then? :shock: :shock: :shock: Nah the T055er was about 600miles short of it at magnetic north, A place incidently visited by lorries in the past of course he neglected to mention that in his quest to disprove ...

Start preparing now chaps, buy a house on a hill or even a caravan with a bit of land , in the middle of nowhere, preferably with a little stream and some woodland. Then get a firearm certificate whilst you still can :wink: Personally I don't think it will be as bad as Martin thinks but I'm not taki...

My - am I glad I don't have a telly! :roll: you are so lucky Ina, I would gladly throw ours in the sea but mrs C and the dude would lynch me :? We have this argument every now and then, mrs C is watching something and I tell her it's cr4p ( because I'm a cantankerous old git ) to which she replies ...

Aye SH, I dunno why but when they upgrade these treatment plants they put in a temporary overland supply. When they did the one on Raasay they laid a 90 or 100mm one it must have been 1/2 a mile long and some of my mates got that. Then about 6 months later they laid another 200m length of 63mm and a...

After the recent remarks of people that JO was NOT at his own garden at his own place in the programme Jamie at Home, nor did HFW actually LIVE at Rivercottage.......I wondered WHAT IS THE POINT of making such programmes then, fooling people into thinking that these men were actually up to somethin...