Re: RFD uk.d-i-y

[Ali Hopkins]

I have this vision of the Restaurant at the End of The Universe, and the Dish of the Day wearing a turban, and saying "Innit!"

Ali

[Richard Watson]

Flat-packed only.

[Steve Firth]

"di"

Indeed, but not the stuff sold in England, which is vinegar by comparison with the real thing.

[Paul Harper]

I wish... :-)

Paul.

[Ali Hopkins]

Oops. :) Sorry, the problem with speaking more than one Latin language is that you muddle words! :) I realised in Sitges the other week that I was freely and joyously mixing Catalan, Spanish and French. Not that they care, bless them.

Absolutely.

Ali

[Gnube]

No, no thank you, I don't think I fancy drinking something that's been "passed" by another! ;O)

Take Care, Gnube {too thick for linux}

[Peter Ashby]

You don't drink tap water in London then?

Peter

[Gnube]

Strange to tell, no!

Bemused of Bucks. ;O)

Take Care, Gnube {too thick for linux}

[Dave Plowman]

Only when turned into Young's or Fuller's.

[Simon Gardner]

I think most people in London don't drink London tap water either. It tastes truly 'orrible and looks worse.

[Peter Ashby]

When I first got my daughter a fish tank when we were in London I couldn't understand why I couldn't get the nitrate level down below about 70ppm. Then I tested the tap water and found it to be about 50ppm so using it for partial water changes wasn't much help.

Fortunately I had access to distilled at work. I used fill a couple of

5l mineral water containers up and use those. We had lots of containers to spare as we kept one in the fridge for drinking water.

Up here the water is soft, slighly acid and pretty well no nitrates, it also tastes a lot better so we save money on the mineral water. IIRC we used to buy Highland Spring, their bottling plant is just the other side of Perth.

Peter

[Peter Ashby]

Hmm, the beardie in me seems to remember at least one of those fine emporia of the amber nectar has their own borehole.

Peter Mine's an Old Peculier thanks.

[geoff]

In message , Dave Plowman writes

Your good health sir

[Peter Corlett]

bigegg wrote: [...]

Nah, we'd never waste valuable breath on that in Yorkshire. It'd be "do it thissen". Actually, if my Yorkshire landlord is anything to go by, it's "not do it at all".

The solution to this is to replace the old boiler with a newer model.

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Andrew,

If new DIY groups are created, can the hypens please be dropped. uk.rec.diy.* would show up much better when people search for `DIY' in a newsgroup name.

Cheers,

[Zapp Brannigan]

Agreed, I only found this by chance, after searching for the logical DIY came up blank

[RichardS]

Oh, gawd, people aren't STILL prattling on about splitting the group in uk.net.news.config without having the good grace to post here and let us know what they're proposing, are they?

The last time this came up here, about two months ago, the VAST majority of regular contributors were completely against the splitting of the group.

The only people who seemed to advocate splitting the group were rarely to be seen posting in these parts.

So, what's the current state of this discussion?

Am I going to wake up one morning and find that uk.d-i-y is no longer, and noone had the good grace to let us know?

Richard

-- Richard Sampson

email me at richard at olifant d-ot co do-t uk

[Andy Hall]

There was a thread on this a couple of months ago, and most people felt., certainly the regulars, that things should be left alone.

.andy

To email, substitute .nospam with .gl

[Adam D. Barratt]

Nope. Just someone who's never been seen in unnc before (ttbomk) happening upon the thread from September, afaics.

Adam

[Zapp Brannigan]

Yes, but they have found this place so it makes no odds to them. For ease of use for newcomers I think it should be sorted out.