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Tips for clean edge between wall and ceiling
Hi All We had bought paint for a couple of rooms but haven't got around to painting them. The lockdown is currently posing and opportunity to do it... One thing we always struggle with is getting a...
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(Almost on topic): recommendations for integrated freeview receiver, PVR and DVD player?
I've had a Humax freeview PVR and Samsung DVD player for quite a while but would like to replace them with a single box. I've also got a Chromecast but SWMBO is a bit of a phone-o-phobe so I need...
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Dr who ? ..
Captain James E. Fanell gives his view to The Sun on why Donald Trump was right to cut funding to the World Health Organisation. Fanell is a former Director of Intelligence and Information Operations...
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Blown double glazing DIY success
I recently moved into a house I'd just bought. One of the upstairs double glazed windows was full of moisture - it migrated upwards when the sun had been on it and then dribbled down in streaks. I...
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DIY haircut machine....
When SWAMBO started chemo we bought a trimmer so I could her the once-all-over rather than go through the tufty look as she was losing her hair. She is now offering to return the favour and trim mine...
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SmartTV (?) and YouTube oddity
7 year old LG with YouTube app. Works perfectly fine 99% of the time. But of late there have been a few YouTube vidoes it seems to refuse to play. It just sits there "Loading ..." after 5 minutes I...
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toenail trimming (with angle grinder and blowtorch)
One of the random offerings from youtube <>Presumably the blowtorch is to cauterise any little mistakes? ... in this episode of The Hoof GP join me as I use The Dark Knight cattle crush ( Appleton...
 
The Bats Behind the Pandemic
The Bats Behind the Pandemic From Ebola to Covid-19, many of the deadliest viruses to emerge in recent years have the same animal source. By Matt Ridley, 4/9/20, Wall St. Journal [...] Then in 2016,...
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Dilemma.
I have a hospital appointment booked for later this month. Not urgent - just a check on treatment which has been ongoing for over a year. I'd guess they do an approximate schedule of treatment from...
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One for the scientists
Came across something new to me today, a mixture for cleaning glassware aggressively. The example I found was 70/30 mix by volume concentrated sulphuric acid and hydrogen peroxide. I liked the name:
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anybody tried this ?
An innovative and special apparatus that can easily and safely clean your ears. Doctors say that there is no need to clean your ears with a cotton bud as swabs merely condense and it impacts the...
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OT Dogfight.
Corsairs against Mustangs in the skies over Central America in 1969.
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Instant handwashers.
Years ago I nearly commissioned a conventional stored HW / CH system here but at the last knocking replaced the BF boiler with a BF multipoint water heater. The only issue because of that path is that...
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food box
after considering all the abuse I have endured I have decided to send for my free Scot Gove food box x2...
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G4: halogen or LED?
We have a number of those "bedside lights" with a transformer in the base and a pair of "radio aeriels" taking 12 volts AC to the light unit containing a 20 watt halogen G4. I've just used my last...
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