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Sky have a different take on that, as I was expecting either a new router to replace the SkyHub that I’ve had for a couple of years, or another box ( white ) on the wall, but their latest hub can cope with both ADSL and fibre.
As I need to run a Cat5/6 lead into the loft to sort out my wifi isssues, I’ll either have to re-locate the hub to near the BT socket ( and boxed in pipes up the wall to the loft) or run in an extra lead from the hub ( through the boxed in pipes on the floor ) but needing a larger – or second – hole in a cavity wall. All good fun, so long as the wife doesn’t see any mess!!
Thanks for that Ed, – I use their differential backup scheme, [(1 x full + 2 x diff over a three week period ) x 2] but the changes are small – a few documents/pictures, etc.
Google Photos/Drive has duplicated my picture backups, along with some important documents to One Drive, but these uploads are bandwidth hogs on a 16/1 Meg connection.
With the fibre connection I will get a 36/10 Meg which will make any Cloud based systems a lot more transparent.
I’ll have a quick look over Macrium and maybe have that too!
Acronis have a very stupid incremental backup system and no clean-up utility. Any file cleaning is definitely risky with that (not recommended) software.
@edps – can you please expand on that because until my fibre goes in next week and I start using cloud services to duplicate my backup regime, Acronis differential back up is what I use.Cheers
Have you checked out PC Decrapifier – no really that’s what it’s called – I used to use that on Dell laptops. Info HERE .
When we moved in here, the previous owners had a fridge/freezer cupboard that only had a fridge in the top half. In the bottom half was a litter tray and two cat flaps – one in the cupboard door and one in the outside wall!!
We very quickly changed all that with a new fridge /freezer and several buckets of bleach and Dettol. The hole in the door was covered with a white plastic vent. If you put one on the outside, with a plastic inner ‘liner’, something to fill the gap, and then another lined vent on the inside – that may weatherproof it, but how aesthetic or secure that might be is up for debate.
Edit – THIS place looks like the sort of company – “no job too big or small”. I’m guessing it’s local!!??
My son used AirBnb’s for business stays, so the following was less relevent to him, but when I looked at them, they seemed good value until you added in the cleaning costs – especially for 1 night stays – you were adding about another 50% to the cost!!
The other problem you’ll have is Scotland contains the highest concentration of Scots in the UK!! There must be better places you can go!!
Having said that, we’ve just had friends come back after a week and they said that the heatwave down here meant it was very pleasant up there.
Some of those doors had panels that were inserts, you could either use the panel or a double-glazed unit. If it’s one of those a “Window Workshop” type company might be able to replace the complete panel for you. I don’t think they’re dear.
If it’s all one moulding, I don’t have any experience of either glue, unfortunately.
One of my Escorts started off as an 1100 – I wanted a quick performance upgrade, so we put a MkII Cortina 1600GT into it. It needed nothing special to connect the engine and gearbox as the bolt holes all lined up and just fitted. The only problem we had was the placing of the chassis cross member under the sump. One had it to the front of the engine bay and the other had it to the rear. We got inspired and reversed the sump pan – oil seals front and back were the same size luckily. All we then had to do was a bit of plumbing on the scavenger pipe to extend it into the relocated deep part of the pan.
I used to get wheelspins moving off in first gear, first to second and second to third ( courtesy of the ratios in the 1100 gearbox and the 12″ Escort wheels instead of the 13″ Cortina wheels ). We put ‘Mexico’ wheel arches onto the wings for when we tried to put 13″ wheels onto it, but it needed low profile tyres to avoid rubbing the wing so we reverted to wide 12″ wheels as those tyres were a more sensible price!! That car was painted metallic electric blue with the centre door section painted silver and extended onto the front and rear wings – basically a 12″ silver stripe down each side of the car.
We copied that pattern on the Stag, but the main body was in Metallic Ruby with the same pearlescent silver 12″stripes. On that one we tapered the silver stripe down towards the back and continued it across the back panel that held the lights.
Edit – got carried away in my own story there – yes, Bob, that Capri looks the business. I loved the lines, but then I also loved the lines of the Mustang it was copied off. Ditto the Datsun 240Z/260Z – although that one looked like it had a bit of E-type heritage in it for good measure. My Capri was just plain white with a black vinyl roof. That crease down the side and the power bulge in the bonnet just lent itself to interesting colour combinations and demarkations.
I would, but half the time I’m facing the wrong way………………
Though it didn’t get me out buying a new tv for the WC……………
How wide is your toilet door???!!!!
Mum and Dad being in Wales, they didn’t get to see our son too often. One of the things that we did was one holiday a year we went as Anne and John, not Mum and Dad. We would drop him off to them and go for a week or ten days and it was a true break. It was a joy just being us.
They loved it and David loved it too. Win-win!!
Even the original civic looks amazing today. Wouldn’t like a crash in any of them.
My brother had an early Civic over in Saudi Arabia in the 70’s/80’s. He was hit by someone joining the motorway and he spun off. He was left sitting, buckled up, in the driver’s seat, with the windscreen flapping from the roof join, but the front of the car, bonnet, wings, wheels and engine etc were off to the side of him. He walked out of that with a stiff neck!!
JayCee, did your Stag have the original Triumph V8, or a Ford V6 replacement?
Yes, it did. The guy in the garage behind my old flat bought it in with overheating problems ( the usual ).
His solution was to buy a written off ( rear end smash ) Stag and utilise it for the best parts out of the two. The engine was stripped, crankshaft re-ground, new big ends and con-rods, over-bored and new pistons, both heads sent off to be skimmed and ported, the auto box from the wreck was ignored and the manual box ( with electric overdrive ) was rebuilt. Carbs were re-built, alternator upgraded, stainless steel custom exhaust manifolds and the pipes and boxes ( from a Corvette Stingray iirc ) gave two separate pipes out the back. It was a beauty. He used it to go on a caravan touring holiday to Lake Geneva and it never missed a beat, so when he was bored with it and itching to go onto a new project ( RS2000 ) I bought it off him. He never did finish that RS project, but he used the engine, connected to a Z-drive, in his speedboat when he went water-skiing. God, that thing shifted. I didn’t ski, so got co-opted into driving the boat – real hardship that was!!
The funny thing is the other Stag engine conversion that people did, with a Rover 3.5 V8 actually improved the Stag’s handling, because the lighter ( ally ) engine gave a better overall balance than the nose heavy original.
*There never was a “Mk.5” Cortina. The last model was a “Mk.4 Facelift”. differences were slight but the biggest tell is the roof, which has a higher line above the windows in the Facelift.
It’s what we knew it as. It was a 2.0l OHC Ghia Estate. It was a bit of a hybrid and may have had the 5-stud wheels from the Granada I’m not sure now. It had the inevitable vinyl roof ( brown ) and was beige.
They did the same in 1972 with the Capris, I had a V4 2litre before they face-lifted them with new headlights, bigger rear light cluster and changed the suspension.
That one provided one of my scarier motoring moments – on the M4 headed to Wales for Christmas, the bonnet latch gave up the ghost and the wind caught the bonnet and blew it back, hitting but not breaking, the windscreen and bending the top section over the roof. Luckily I was in my normal outside lane but doing seventy-ish. I ignored instinct and looked out of the drivers window at the central reservation armco barrier and just hit the brakes, trying, successfully, to keep the same distance from it., thereby keeping in the same lane. I finished that journey ( slowly ) with two luggage straps attached across each wheel arch holding the bonnet down.
Being 6′ I got the 3-door version of the Cherry and in spite of the problems loading a baby and carry cot into the back seat, the bigger doors and extra legroom made all the difference. It packed a lot into a small car.
That was the time that the Japanese started doing to the UK car industry the same as they did to the bike industry the previous decade – and they did it well.
I did just that – except I reversed the deeds. I worked my way up through about 12 cars to a 1972 Stag. Had that for a short while and loved it. Then I met the wife and when we decided to move in together and buy a house, the Stag was sold to pay for the legal costs and we each sold our rent books back to our respective landlords to get the deposit together.
It seems strange nowadays, but we went into the Yorkshire BS with £25, opened an account and asked them for a £27000 mortgage!!
We then got a “practical for the baby” 2 litre MkV Cortina Estate. What a piece of crap that was – the wife hated it. Every time we went out in it, it needed something repaired before the next journey. Steering bushes, brakes sorted, exhaust boxes, alternator, clutch – and that’s the bigger things I can still remember!! Traded that for a new 1.3l Nissan Cherry hatchback – great little car, had that for three years before upgrading to the 2l Bluebird.
I gather TENS machines are good on muscle/arthritis etc, but maybe not so good on nerve pain. Does anyone have experience of using one with shingles?
I used it on a muscle pain, but never thought about it for shingles pain.
Watch this space!!
The TENS machines are little miracle workers. When the wife’s back plays up, she sits on a dining chair, watching TV and gives it two 15 minute sessions on the one that looks like a crab claw. She also goes straight in at high levels.
It was the referral to the pain clinic that got to the truth of the wife’s back problems. In order to get into the clinic, she first had to have an MRI of her back. It was then that they noticed she had a sequestrated disc ( it had come out, re-aligned vertically, and was pressing on the sciatic nerve ) that had been missed on the X-ray 5 years earlier.
Good luck!!
@jayceedee P.S Very rude of me, Thankyou for trying. I have a very trying customer today so my manners are not what they should be.
No worries – these are like IM’s – quick bursts of chat, focussed on the subject matter.???
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