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OT: Look North Leeds bias
Tonight's episode included: 1. A very one-sided three minute item claiming that immigrants and their descendants are 'disproportionately affected' by the horrid Tory cuts. Get the chuffing violin out!...
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Friday's auction
Items that might be of interest to D-I-Yers: Lot No: 3200 Two boxes of mixed electrical fittings including back boxes and a slab of granite etc Estimate £15.00 - £30.00 (slab of granite?) Lot No:...
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OT ish Slow Windows
Also, if you are a "serious" Word user (references, cross references) don't expect Open Office stuff to work correctly. Kingsoft, Libre Office, etc. Don't get me wrong, Linux is fine for a lot of...
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Walking about with Hard Wearing Soles
Have been looking for some solid *long lasting *walking shoes, and have seen these: Brasher Country Traveller GTX Men's Walking shoe A picture of them is in this site: It says the sole is...
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Where to get internal glazed fire doors under £300?
Looking for suppliers of good value internal fire doors, transparent glazing. I'm in West London. Nothing on ebay. Ideas? Help very welcome here.
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Paint for garage door?
My garage door has been red for ages but all the neighbours' are white. It is starting to show its age, and needs repainting; perhaps now is the time to change the colour and blend in. What paint...
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Replacing thermostatic cartridge in shower cabin - can't unscrew old one
Hello group, I have a shower cabin, Inisgnia GT8720. It has three control knobs, the bot tom one being the temperature control, which is basically a thermostatic ca rtridge... It screws into the main...
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Re: Gloss
Obviously that rare type, a spammer with nothing to say. Brian
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OT PAT
HI At work we have a Seaward PAT machine, the employee qualified to use it has left and boss wants me to get the testing back in-house. Our young cleric who looks after safety records and personnel...
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B&Q Club
I rarely venture into B&Q these days; as we now have Toolstation and Screwfix counters within 2 miles of home as well as a Wickes, I'm afraid it rarely gets a look-in, although it's actually the...
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OT Cats video.
I know there's people here loves cats. Fake or not? Can't imagine a cat doing this stuff. Didga the Cat is an amazing cat who isn't going to let the dogs steal the show with all the amazing tricks...
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Network bodge question
Years ago, when I built my workshop at the bottom of the garden 20m from the house, I put an unscreened 25 way multicore cable (16/0.2mm) for future expansion. Now I would like to extend the computer...
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(Mini) guttering (is it *really* this hard ?)`
Have just moved a shed from the paved patio, to a raised section of decking. Luckily (!) the last few days have given me ample data regarding rainwater, and it seems a good idea to gutter the shed,...
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OT: Car Tyre recommendations
It seems a few years since this was done. Mazda 2, all down to the 20p coin test 2mm, 185/55 R15, 2~3k moderate motoring per year. One garage suggesting HiFly as a budget tyre, another Semperit....
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Thistle multi-finish instead of Polyfilla for patching?
I'm preparing the walls in my lounge for painting. Some of the surface skim of plaster was loose in places, so I chipped it away. I've now got various small areas that need patching and making flush,...
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