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Answers from me Lee:
*The sliding sidebar used to drive me crackers occasionally.Trying to do something near the LH side would inevitably slide it across. Won’t miss that, thanks.
*Noticed the password issue was gone from the tablet over brekkies this morning. Only had it on the tablet, not phone, laptop or desktop.
*Never looked at Latest Replies in the RH sidebar. I usually hover on “Forums” then click Latest Replies. But I always note Who’s Online at RH side. That’s useful: no good knocking on a door when you know no one is in!
*New Blue in Header is good. In fact the subtle colour changes are all good.
You OK, things improving?
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I'm out.” …by the next year both nests had just gone. ”
They will be back Graham. I have gone several years between infestations, it’s like they are building up underground and then out they come again. First time for me was digging them out in the front garden. I never saw so many ants in one place before and there were probably millions of eggs. I slaughtered the buggas, but they came back a few years later and come every year now. Interesting point is that they now seem to be much smaller than they used to be.
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I'm out.‘Only’ 29 at Sutton on Sea today and the place is packed, I was lucky to find a space after going around town once and a car pulled out, giving me a good spot nearer the seafront. It’s getting really popular there with young families and Oldpharts like us. No surprise as it has no arcades, no noise except hundreds of screaming kids in the paddling pool. Dunes are long and big now, plenty of small sheltering spaces for those who want that. Had a great sandwich and tasty salad at “The Stepping Stones” where we have eaten for years, followed by a Farmer Brown’s delicious ice cream (we know how to live it up!). Had to eat healthy today, as last night I had the worst soss & mash ever! Granddaughter’s BF paid for that, so I didn’t feel too depressed about it, lol.?
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I'm out.Had an ant infestation on the back garden for a change:
This is what I wiped them out with:
Got it from B&Q. the spray kills either on contact or very soon afterwards.
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I'm out.Oh dear Dwynne, stop digging please. You have no idea what Steve’s attitude to the police was, neither have I: we weren’t there!
These are some of his comments in posts:
” …thought I’d update regarding my PC visit regarding the knife incident. They never showed up. ”
“ I wasn’t let down I never wanted to give a statement. They asked me as I was the only witness, and they had the guy in the cells. They approached me, I stupidly said I’d seen the incident and described the knife. A wilcos black and blue foldout stanley clone. Man with ginger cropped hair and green tracksuit top. He was also on cctv, as was my car, cupping the knife.”
He offered evidence as the only witness, the officers did not accept (by not getting back to him.) How will this case proceed if they don’t use the evidence of the only witness, when: “they had the guy in the cells…. ” and they had a very good description of the alleged offender, including video, and his weapon?
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I'm out.I thought long and hard before commenting on this: a dispute between two Forumites whose views and opinions I respect individually.
Steve, your comment was a bit OTT IMO.
However, Dwynne, Steve has a point. He was posting about something that he actually witnessed, and the lack of police reaction to his input with them. That was a scene that Steve actually saw and took part in and neither you nor anyone else can have direct knowledge of. He was also correct about your pro-police and pro-law opinions: The police are not always correct in their actions and it does no good to defend them when the real world experience of others tells another story.
For example: in the past I have been twice arrested and held in custody for events that were absolutely nothing to do with me. In both cases the officers concerned were offered evidence to show that I was an innocent party. In both cases I was held longer than I should have been. Dwynne, you would know more than others that a police cell is an unfriendly place, especially so if you are an innocent person held there against your will by the actions of incompetent policing. These events occurred because I had been convicted and quite rightly, punished for GBH a long time previously: ‘hey, let’s pick up the miscreant we know, shall we?’ I was on leave, a serving sergeant and the Army took a dim view of the actions of those officers.
I have also been in a position to offer photographs I took, of people taking drugs and smashing up playground equipment, Two officers attended after over 2 hours, by which time the guilty parties had scarpered. I offered my evidence, they laughed and drove away.
None of this makes me disrespect the police as a body. I know they have a difficult job that is getting more and more difficult. I have mates who are ex-police and they have derogatory opinions about the officers I describe. What I do feel is that nothing is cut and dried, nothing is black and white. The great majority of the British police are hard working and responsible. It is the minority who let down all those responsible officers, all of whom put their lives on the line every day.
That’s my two penn’orth. Llike it or lump it.
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I'm out.As has been said, Sky and all the other interested parties would be on them like bloodhounds even if it were legit. Which it is not.
If it sounds too good to be true….???
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I'm out.Similar story to ours, John. By 1992 we were buying our own place in the Notts village where I grew up. We spent a lot of money on the place, but by 1999 I was registered disabled, missus had an Op go wrong and was also disabled. My smashing in laws kept us afloat until we could come here to a large, lovely “permanent” privately rented bungalow in Louth. The landlord had told us we could stay there “permanently”. He neglected to tell us that it had been left to himself and his son by his own father the original homeowner, on the condition that his son, when 18, would have the choice of splitting the rent, or taking half the sale price. The landlord said we had 3 months to stay, then find somewhere else. I told him that needed to be in writing and he did that, then this wealthy guy went off on a 3 week diving holiday off Venezuela with wife and son. While he was away the local Council saw the letter he wrote and gave us this bungalow. I put the keys through his door and told him to whistle for that month’s rent. He was not amused but we did not give a damn.
What we took from all that, was that there are people like my in laws and people like that private landlord*. I have always hoped to be able to tell the difference and I also pay it forward.
*Arrested and convicted for fraud a couple of years ago. Lost his business, his wife and his big house, now lives according to last information, in a bedsit in Grimsby. Son lives in our old bungalow and my old neighbours there detest him and his all night parties, trying to get him evicted.
Now that is Karma!
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I'm out.My son has a Vauxhall Combi diesel van and has tricked it out with all kinds of gizmos, including an after – fit camera that also came with a sensor kit. He also made his own immobiliser with an alarm of his own design: any potential thief getting into the van would have ruptured eardrums and the whole village would hear it!
That van is perfect for him now there is only our No.2 gson at home, and he has his motorbike. Son’s hobby is Stationary engines and he can get two engines in the back, whilst towing the 1999 caravan that he rebuilt from a derelict ‘van and newish furniture from an accident – damaged and scrapped mobile home.
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I'm out.Defo a Firefox thing. I get it, very occasionally now, only on the tablet, never on the desktop or laptop. I just ignore it, it doesn’t matter whether you click Yes or No.
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I'm out.Will this WikiHow article help John, or have you read it?
Don’t have Carpenter ants, but every year I get ants outside, coming inside. Flying ants when the weather turns hot, usually June to August. Every year I think I have wiped them out, tried everything: sprays, bait traps, dust. The little buggas always come back, first signs are ants on my roses by the front door. This year I found a spray/dust combination that seems to have worked. Dust is from B&Q but can’t recall the source and name of the spray and the container has been dumped. Before we went on holiday we had a massive infestation, which is when I used the spray/dust combo. Not looking forward to coming back, but all we had was two Flyers inside the windows, one dead and one almost dead. Hopefully I have wiped them out. But that’s what I thought last year. And the year before. And – well, you get the message.
As an aside, I read that ants and wasps had the same original insect ancestor, millions of years ago. They downsized, split off and evolved separately when the Oxygen content of the planet became smaller. Look at the bodies: same shape. I tolerate wasps, they do more good than ants: pollinate just as much as bees, kill thousands of tonnes of harmful insects every year. Eat some, paralyse the rest and stick each one in a cell with an egg. Wasp Larvae hatch, eat the insect, grow to next year’s wasps. When a wasp is on your shed or fence at this time of the year, they are just taking a tiny sample of wood to make cellulose and build more cells in the nest. I have a tiny area of fence and another on the shed that I leave them and they are out now taking some. If I am in the garden, I just let them fly around me, no waving my arms about. If they land on my skin, I let them taste and they fly off, probably going “YEEEUUUCCHH! WTF was that!”
And yes I was stung 3 times in one day, but never since I learned to leave them alone. There is only one of me, there are thousands in the huge nest in a nearby tree! Their gang is bigger than mine…
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I'm out.You’re welcome John, hope that helps. Let us know how you get on.
We are looking into a Humanist funeral when we fall off our perches, with a Celebrant from the Humanist community instead of a boring representative from an organised religion that I have no belief in . I have found a Burial Meadow near here and want a cardboard coffin or a sheet, then a tree over the plot. The Ultimate Recycle.
I want The Stones and Creedence Clearwater to play me out.
Maybe in another 20 years??
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I'm out.Good points Nolan. Also consider that around 200 million people live along coastlines today.
That number is expected to revise upwards with Global Warming. Looks like our Lincolnshire population will be an island people by the turn of the century. In a few thousand years, maybe our descendants will have developed gills! We will swim with the dolphins…
I really should curb my imagination.?
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I'm out.So we both learned a lesson: don’t accept the manufacturer prices.?
I ought to have known that, with my motor trade background.??
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I'm out.Dwynne I remember using broken machine – hacksaw blades as scrapers in the workshop. Properly sharpened, they made great tools for cleaning surfaces such as cylinder heads, engine blocks, engine ancillaries. I used to keep a billet of aluminium and make a handle out of that, using the lathe and miller. Those scrapers lasted for years, I still have one in my old toolbox.
Metal memories…
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I'm out.Very interesting Ed, I had seen the Severn footprints before but the Ars Technica link is challenging. I predict lots of Archaeologists and Historians harrumphing over that. I am actually extremely hairy, as were my dad and both brothers. I also have some small bone spurs, with associated ear trouble. There was a Professor Williams who wrote a book called “When Was Wales”. The guy is the image of my dad and he said that his ancestors probably met the first Celts when they reached the coast of Britain.
I don’t like to speculate based upon that, but ….
I’m just waiting for Putin to declare that the first modern humans evolved in what became Russia. In which case I believe in devolution.
Oops! Typed that and then thought about the Denisovans: https://tinyurl.com/psg2477
Let’s not give Mad Vlad any ammunition though!
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I'm out.Not for me Ed I’m afraid. Electronic music really bugs my Hearing Aids.
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I'm out.Oooooo Shiny!??
Great colour Nolan, very nice Midnight Blue that does not always come off, most manufacturers make it look an insipid Navy Blue. I wouldn’t have another black car, but that is nice.
When I signed up for the Tucson, I was
connedpersuaded into buying the factory mats and boot mat. When I changed to the iX20, I bought mats from Ebay, came from Poland, fit perfectly, cost much less and clean up easier. Still got these heavy Tucson carpets. can’t sell them except to people who want them posted. They are so large and heavy that the P&P would be more than the carpets are worth.When the Thought Police arrive at your door, think -
I'm out.All sorted, thanks to Nolan!
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I'm out.Nolan, a mate of my son had a 2018 Fiesta ST, had it remapped and customised, wrapped it around a tree, write-off. Applied for insurance and refused on the grounds that he did not declare all the mod’s. Now he faces paying off a humongous amount of cash each month for a car he doesn’t have. Plus he has injuries that put him out of work, lost his job and facing a Drink Drive charge. That is a lot of Unintentional Consequences.
Steve is right: the slight increase in performance would not be worth the increased insurance premium.
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