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Hi all,It's my 50th birthday and our 10th anniversary coming up this year and my girlfriend and myself fancy a driving vacation in California.We are thinking Los angeles to San Francisco (or vice-versa) with some time in the Napa Valley. We are...
26-7 this is embarrassing! They could lose by a whole innings!
tomorrow on april fool's day i am giving up cigarettes (no april fool, this is for real).i smoke a pack a day of camel turkish golds.i'm quitting cold turkey.God help me :-)
In recent months there has been quite alot of interest in dedicated hifi mains circuits. Many people have asked what is involved so I thought I would post a few pictures to explain what I have done:This shows the new hifi consumer unit. It's fed...
Is there such a thing these days as a decent compact camera with a decent viewfinder?I'm off on another cycle tour and need a lightweight camera with a viewfinder. I've used and loved a Leica D-Lux2 for years, but now have to put on reading glasses to...
HiI have several projects coming up that require me to take external photographs from a high (at least 6 metres) view point. Ladders and scaffold are not an option as some of the images will be in the middle of a field. I need something that is very...
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Just bought one of these little gadgets and must admit it's rather good. 5 remote controls, one of which was inevitably lost down the back of the sofa at any given time was becoming a pain, and this provides a simple elegant solution. The 1100 seems...
Hi all,I thought I'd post this in padded cell as I couldn't imagine a better place. I also wanted to share this with the forum as it has sparked an interest in me.As a preamble, I have recently been getting quotes from electricians to fit a new spur...
I have just gone to renew my passport and i was charged £72.00 just to renew it!I understand the machinery of government costs money to run but this is taking the urine! Gordon
I'm thinking of buying a Rover 75R from the year 2000. It is a luxury big car and is cheap relatively to its size and performances. The problem is that I know nothing about this car. Is it reliable? What is its fuel consumption? Can you tell me...
60-foot penis painted on roof
Magical perfection on the 72nd hole at the Arnold Palmer Invitational (picture from another event)
Afternoon allThe home PC is running slowly, despite a defrag, and I think we need to get bigger / faster etc.Is it possible simply to add in memory, a faster processor etc? If not, is it a problem to export evrything on the hard drive to a new ...
The unluckiest man in the world?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bradford/7962212.stm
can be seen here!
In 2004 I posted my concerns that the remake wouldn't be a patch on the original. Here I sit four and a half years later having just watched the series finale saved on Sky + and I will now admit to having enjoyed the entire series and I am sad that it...
That's not her !
Recently decided to return to a bit of Culture. Even better than the first time I read this. Looking ofrward to re-visiting the rest now. Anyone else returned to old reading to find it even more entertaining (and perhaps pertinent..? Apart from the...
Did anyone else watch Alan Whicker last night? I though it was an interesting program which provided some good examples of how society and technology has changed in the last few decades. I wonder how many of the current generation know what one of the...
All I can say is, well done!I think it's a scream that Radiohead did not make time for Miley Cyrus at the Grammys and that Thom Yorke told her not to have such a "sense of entitlement"But Miley vows to "ruin" Radiohead because of this.As if!
Just to see if anyone else has had this problem, while E-Bay condescend to reply to my e-mails.I recently put some items on sale, when I came to revise them I was not able to access them. I was offered another login page, an HTTPS one.It seemed to...
Watching Lewis on Sunday night I was reminded of the one and only time I have been to a book signing. It was at Waterstones in Salisbury, and Terry Pratchett’s Soul Music had just been published. The signing took place in a basement section of...