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A bit OT Blue Peter Ealing Studio and Ronnie Barker

Just in case those that have worked in the film/stage industry that post here have not seen it https://www.youtube.com/w...
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posted by adamwadsworth
0 comments posted 5yrs posted by adamwadsworth

One for the building inspectorate.

Unsurprisingly our new East facing double glazed porch enclosure reaches uncomfortably high temperatures during morning...
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posted by tim
11 comments posted 5yrs posted by tim

Quiz question - Emergency lighting test

So a 50 minute drive to the Doctors surgery to test their emergency lighting. The new practice manager said that he cou...
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posted by adamwadsworth
12 comments posted 5yrs posted by adamwadsworth

OT: The Olympic flame

Lit with much razzmatazz and brouhaha, as always. But this time they were at pains to point out it was fuelled with hydr...
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posted by me
4 comments posted 5yrs posted by me

Left handed cheque book?

I have just opened my Nat West cheque book for the first time ever, to write a cheque and noticed the stub is on the ri...
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posted by a
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Smart meters

EDF keep pestering me about installing a smart meter. I really don't want one. Is it compulsory these days?
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posted by tnp
57 comments posted 5yrs posted by tnp

heat pumps anyone ?

Illuminating . Confirms what I have often suspected https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhAKMAcmJFg&ab_channel=SkillBuilder
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posted by tpmccann
156 comments posted 5yrs posted by tpmccann

advice on 'repairing' deep scratch on car bonnet

Hi all my old motor got fairly badly keyed a few years ago. The scratch went down at least to the undercoat. I have bee...
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posted by jkn_gg
6 comments posted 5yrs posted by jkn_gg

Coal bin question

I have a large victorian home, there is a coal bin and trap door outside where coal was delivered. I'm trying to figure...
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posted by billy
1 comments posted 5yrs posted by billy

Re: GB news.

> JNugent > Max Demian wrote >>> JNugent wrote >>>> Dave Plowman (News) wrote >>>>> JNugent >>>>>> The usual reason why...
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posted by jennings&co
6 comments posted 5yrs posted by jennings&co

Blown Capacitor

Our Singer sewing machine, built in Italy about 40 years ago, has blown the capacitor across the mains input leads. Fro...
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posted by davey
26 comments posted 5yrs posted by davey

Linear Halogen Spot problem

My back garden light has failed. I'm in a bungalow and it is just under the apex but if I stand on a board on top of th...
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posted by nospam
5 comments posted 5yrs posted by nospam

OT: email ports

I am having problems sending emails but they are received okay. I have tried to contact the ISP for guidance but they a...
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posted by newsgroups
26 comments posted 5yrs posted by newsgroups

Looking for VGA gender changer

Male/male or female/female not as important as whether or not it *also* turns the cable upside down. Which every one I'...
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posted by roland
45 comments posted 5yrs posted by roland