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EV's and Insurance

The news item in the Guardian on Saturday regarding the insurance of EV's is very hard to come to grips with. A s a per...
40 comments posted 3yrs
posted by pfjames300
40 comments posted 3yrs posted by pfjames300

Amazon search

Has anyone found a way to have Amazon produce only relavant results ? For exmple if I do a search foe Camel shoes it th...
6 comments posted 3yrs
posted by tpmccann
6 comments posted 3yrs posted by tpmccann

paint mixing.

I've had to do some replastering repairs on a wall and now have to repaint the bits. The original paint is no longer av...
10 comments posted 3yrs
posted by nospam
10 comments posted 3yrs posted by nospam

revs per minute

I have inherited a Gardenline PGS 2800 garden shredder. what should the RPM be,
0 comments posted 3yrs
posted by delboy
0 comments posted 3yrs posted by delboy

Sycamore Gap tree... Glue?

Seriously. Get a crane, get some glue, stick it back on. Could that work?
36 comments posted 3yrs
posted by noone
36 comments posted 3yrs posted by noone

SOT: Remove weather from Google contacts

I see the contacts on my Google phone have started showing the weather for each contact. Has anyone found a way to disab...
1 comments posted 3yrs
posted by newsgroups
1 comments posted 3yrs posted by newsgroups

AC power failure alarm

Very occasionally the circuit breaker for our EV charger trips. Only twice in three years so not a huge issue but it co...
14 comments posted 3yrs
posted by tim.downie
14 comments posted 3yrs posted by tim.downie

EDF refuses to get my smart meter display working

Summary of longish saga: in early May we gave in to EDF claiming that our old meters ere past their use-by date, which...
27 comments posted 3yrs
posted by usenet
27 comments posted 3yrs posted by usenet

HP printer won't reinstall to its original state

I have an HP Laserjet 1200. For years it worked fine via USB cable, but now it only accepts parallel port. I have tried...
8 comments posted 3yrs
posted by davewi11
8 comments posted 3yrs posted by davewi11

Undersea dressed stone find

I read somewhere and saw a grainy photograph of of blocks of dressed stone discovered when divers went down to repair a...
9 comments posted 3yrs
posted by pinnerite
9 comments posted 3yrs posted by pinnerite

TV expertise

Youngish TV. LG32LM6300PLA Occasional over dark display on old movies recorded through a BT set top box. (e.g.. the tal...
13 comments posted 3yrs
posted by tim
13 comments posted 3yrs posted by tim

An Aga puzzle.

Oil agas are simple brutes. Fill them up with oil, decoke once a year, and they JustWork™. Except mine has taken to pop...
6 comments posted 3yrs
posted by tnp
6 comments posted 3yrs posted by tnp

OT: Webform spam issues

Rather than give out a company email address we ask that initial correspondence is by a webform. Once or twice a day I...
8 comments posted 3yrs
posted by fredxx
8 comments posted 3yrs posted by fredxx