*Bob*

If it's a trad/proper/victorian front door you're considering replacing - check out the potential eyewatering costs involved before you take the old one off the hinges.. "'ow much..!??"

It's good to get some initial ideas from someone else and it's good to get the plans drawn-up. But personally, I'd draw the line there, let a good builder take over - and sort the rest out with them myself along the way. If they're good they know exactly what they're doing and you can communicate with them directly. Depends on how involved you want to be, of course.

Wall

Platoon is a bit hairy chested man-magazine bollocks, like so many other 'Nam flicks. It does feature Tracks of My Tears though, which is a high point. Walls Street is still a hoot, though Sheen is third (fourth?) fiddle.

Fair point. Find a builder that's done some stuff you like then - and you're happy with 'the taste' of what they've done, whatever it is - and tell them you'd like one like that. I suppose my point is, you're either paying an architect to continually check-up on a builder to make sure they're not doing anything that looks shit, or you get a builder that you're confident isn't going to do anything that looks shit. If I had to choose, I'd go with the latter. Getting both is great, but it's going to cost you..

If I had to choose I'd skip the full architect package and pay more for a good builder with a good eye and good taste.

Fun times.

Can't remember being stopped since I got past mid-late-20's though.

I remember my first trip to London to visit a friend in his first year of University. I was walking down a road near Archway, enigmatically smoking a roll-up and I crossed the road in a sort-of half-run because there was a car coming. The car turned out to be a police car, which stopped, reversed back - "what's that in your hand, where have you been, where are you going.."

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Bit late for bonfire night. Try them next year.

Jeremy must have licked a few 9v batteries in his time. Admittedly numerous other factors may come into play - other than voltage - in this Fairy Light Death Scenario. So, perhaps taking into account the unchecked outdoor socket combined with the unknown IP rating of the lights themselves, the best thing would not be not to plug them in.

They're probably only 12v Jeremy, not liable to fry your brain anytime soon.

Is going round and round and round a dirt track, KFC, then back to the dirt track to go round and round some more - likely to offer the same thrill as cruising the streets with a hankie on your face, flipping 'the bird' to, like, the system and stuff? Doubtful.

Why is nicking food any different to nicking electronic goods? Why is it 'a sad state of affairs'? Food costs money. You nick food, you don't have to make money to buy it. Or nick other things in order to sell them and then buy food. A few baskets from a poorly-policed supermarket is probably worth these days - and is a a lot easier - than robbing something else from a person and trying to flog it down the pub. Or is that ok too these days because of THE TORIES. Building socio-political comment off the back of someone nicking something - about whom you know nothing or their actual circumstances - is total cobblers.

Have they been lauded* as heroes by Owen 'Frank Sidebottom' Jones yet? *all of a sudden

Thanks. The cops are gonna throw the book at Jezza. I heard they bang you up for anything these days.

*Bob* Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Jeremy just PM'd me and said I had 'shit for > brains'. > I am contacting the police. Sorry - does anyone have the number? Thanks.

Jeremy just PM'd me and said I had 'shit for brains'. I am contacting the police.

This is a quick one - excuse the cut and paste: "There is a widespread belief?one with no historical or grammatical foundation?that it is an error to begin a sentence with a conjunction such as and, but or so. In fact, a substantial percentage (often as many as 10 percent) of the sentences in first-rate writing begin with conjunctions."

And My Mum has solar panels! Can I put the dryer on please?

True - but it attracts the birds.

I slow-roast mine slowly on a radiator - makes the meat really tender.

Asset Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Every little helps bob A conspiracy perpetuated by wind farm manufacturers and purveyors of shit light bulbs - who dread the day when someone comes up with something that will make a real difference. Don't worry, I'm not anti wind farms and of course have these products. But it's all just token pissing in the wind at the moment really.

Asset Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Just another thought - if you live in a > hermetically sealed, centrally heated house a > little underpant moisture in the air would prob > not go amiss no, it's one of those places with about six hundred cracks, air holes, drafts and dubious insulation. I'm not a big fan of central heating on the whole and try to use it as little as possible. This way, of course, I can treat myself to some special electricity munching tumbling' fun without feeling too guilty.