Ford Anglia

[quote user="Dick Smith"] I'm still looking for Marsha Hunt's version of Walk on Gilded Splinters - any ideas? [/quote] What's wrong with the Dr John version? Oh, and this thread is becoming chimpist. Please desist.

[quote user="JayJay"] Um..............Ford Anglia, that sounds good, how do you make it? Powerdesal, could you put up the recipe for us now, pretty please?  [/quote] NB: in the recipe below, a "part" can be any size, according to how many you are making the drink for. Just keep the proportions the same[;-)] For ONE person foe example, use 10ml as one "part". 3 parts Galliano 3 parts Baileys 1.5 parts Cointreau, (I use Mandarin Napoleon or even creme de Mandarin from supermarkets). 1.5 parts Kahlua 3 parts cream Shake in a cocktail shaker, either with crushed ice, or without, and, if no crushed ice available, pour over ice cubes. Happy Christmas.

Tried having a "screaming orgasm"? That includes baileys........

[quote user="Dick Smith"]My mother swore she saw them in Grimsby. [/quote] As have I, as a little boy aged around 6, I remember my grandfather taking me outside to see "t'northern lights". That would have been 1958, or so. My grandparents lived there in retirement, after a lifetime in Wath upon Dearne.  

Is it necessary to sweep if you have a stainless flexible flue liner? And burn logs? Don't the brushes damage the flexible flue liner? Mine was a big enough pig to get down the chimney, I wouldn't really want to remove it and replace with another........[:@]  

[quote user="Weedon"][quote user="chris pp"] Urinating in it helps as well, seriously.[:D] Chris [/quote] Have tried your suggestion but am having difficulty reaching the very tops of the walls from the floor.  For the ceilings I have tried peeing whilst balancing horizontally on the top of my ladder but I honestly cannot recommend this straight after a long lunch. [/quote] If you've been urinating whilst horizontal, your username says it all, really[;-)]

Plastering, UGh, one of my most hated jobs. If it's going off too quickly, I've been told it's a sign that it's old stock?  

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I'm not sure if this has ever been posted before, but it made me laugh, and I'm sure will amuse anyone who's ever used a Haynes Manual.......... Haynes Maunual Translations 1. Haynes: Rotate anticlockwise. Translation: Clamp with molegrips then beat repeatedly with hammer anticlockwise. 2. Haynes: This is a snug fit. Translation: Clamp with molegrips then beat repeatedly with hammer. 3. Haynes: This is a tight fit. Translation: Clamp with molegrips then beat repeatedly with a hammer. 4. Haynes: As described in Chapter 7... Translation: That'll teach you not to read through before you start. Now you are looking at scary photos of the inside of a gearbox. 5.Haynes: Pry... Translation: Hammer a screwdriver into... 6. Haynes: Undo... Translation: Go buy a tin of WD40 (giant economy size). 7. Haynes: Retain tiny spring... Translation: PINGGGG - "Jesus, where the hell did that go?" 8. Haynes: Press and rotate to remove bulb... Translation: OK - that's the glass bit off, now fetch some good pliers to dig out the bayonet part (and maybe a plaster or two). 9. Haynes: Lightly... Translation: Start off lightly and build up till the veins on your forehead are throbbing then clamp with molegrips then beat repeatedly with hammer. 10. Haynes: Weekly checks... Translation: If it isn't broken don't fix it. 11. Haynes: Routine maintenance... Translation: If it isn't broken, it's about to be. We warned you. 12. Haynes: One spanner rating. Translation: An infant could do this... so how did you manage to **** it up? 13. Haynes: Two spanner rating. Translation: Now you may think that you can do this because two is a low, teensy weensy number... but you also thought the wiring diagram was a map of the Tokyo underground (in fact that would have been more use to you). 14. Haynes: Three spanner rating. Translation: Make sure you won't need your car for a couple of days. 15. Haynes: Four spanner rating. Translation: You're not seriously considering this are you? 16. Haynes: Five spanner rating. Translation: OK - but don't ever carry your loved ones in it again. 17. Haynes: If not, you can fabricate your own special tool like this... Translation: Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. 18. Haynes: Compress... Translation: Squeeze with all your might, jump up and down on it, throw it at the garage wall, then find some molegrips and a hammer... 19. Haynes: Inspect... Translation: Squint at really hard and pretend you know what you are looking at, then declare in a loud knowing voice to your wife "Yep, as I thought, it's going to need a new one" 20. Haynes: Carefully... Translation: You are about to suffer deep abrasions. 21. Haynes: Retaining nut... Translation: Yes, that's it, that big spherical blob of rust. 22. Haynes: Get an assistant... Translation: Prepare to humiliate yourself in front of someone you know. 23. Haynes: Turning the engine will be easier with the spark plugs removed. Translation: However, starting the engine afterwards will be much harder. Once that sinking pit of your stomach feeling has subsided, you can start to feel deeply ashamed as you gingerly refit the spark plugs. 24. Haynes: Refitting is the reverse sequence to removal. Translation: Yeah, right. But you swear in different places. 25. Haynes: Prise away plastic locating pegs... Translation: Snap off... 26. Haynes: Using a suitable drift... Translation: Clamp with molegrips then beat repeatedly with hammer. 27. Haynes: Everyday toolkit Translation: Use your RAC Card & Mobile Phone. 28. Haynes: Apply moderate heat... Translation: Unless you have a blast furnace, don't bother. Alternatively, clamp with molegrips then beat repeatedly with hammer. 29. Haynes: Index Translation: List of all the things in the book, bar the particular job you need to do.

My paternal grandpa was a blacksmith/coppersmith/boilersmith. He was a VERY skilled man, working almost all his life for the Manvers Main colliery at Wath upon Dearne, S. Yorks. I still have his origianl miner's lamp. I  also still have some of the tools he made for his apprenticship. I well remember in my first car, (a Ford Anglia, of course[:P]), running into the back of a man who stopped his car suddenly without warning. When I got home, and showed my dad the twisted bumper, he sent me to my grandpa's. I remember asking, "why, what can grandpa do?". He had me remove the bumper, examined it, then hit it a few times in seemingly random places with the rounded end of a ball-pein hammer. When he handed it back, it was properly shaped, with just the scuff marks to show for it's accident. I was, and remain, amazed at the skill of the man.[blink]

PM me..........

[quote user="mooky"] . They just have no personality!! [/quote] Not for nothing are they known as Mundane-o's

No thanks needed. My pleasure to help. FA

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Had an anti-tetanus recently?

As posted above. Use secaturs, long handled loppers or even a lopping saw to cut through the lower stems. Then pull it off. It's very brittle, even when green, and makes excellent fire-lighters[;-)] Ensure that ALL stems are cut. If the tree is very tall, and you can't get the ivy down, cut twice, about two feet apart, and pull out the ivy inbetween the cuts. Again, ensure the trunk is clean. Try not to do TOO much damage to the trunk, it'll heal small cuts easily. I watched to French workers cut ivy off trees in the local area with a chainsaw last year! My trees (walnut, and plum) were visibly better after only 6 months, and it was done in september 2005.

When ours were done, by a local menuiserie, ALL traces of the old window were removed. The windows were fastened to the walls and above and below, by sort of wavy "L" shaped brackets. Then the spaces were infilled with expanding foam. Once that went off, I cut it back and replastered on the inside, recemented on the outside. HTH

My lads listen to some American rapper, (I think), "singing" that there are: "Too many niggers, Not enough hoes", (Whores, I believe). Incredible. Actually this thread reminds me of two things. Firstly a VERY funny story in the "Petit Nicholas" series, entitled: "Djo-Djo". Secondly, it reminds me of the day my Alsation chewed off about 6 of the 9 raspberry canes I'd just planted. I was understandably annoyed, and said so to my wife. I used the word b*gger in the sentence to decribe the miscreant, at which point my not-yet-talking two year old suddenly copied that VERY word out of the whole sentence. Guess who's fault it was?[Www]

[quote user="Dick Smith"]Why not take them at face value? If they are speaking nicely, smiling etc. then I suggest they are just exercising a bit of English, for their own fun and to make you feel welcome. A bit of a harmless joke. If they start throwing rocks, then worry. In England we do the same to French teachers, n'est-ce pas? [/quote] You throw rocks at French teachers?[:'(]   I lit a thin green candle, to make you jealous of me. But the room just filled up with mosquitos, they'd heard that my body was free.......

[quote user="chris pp"] Could be wood mice then by the description.  Chris [/quote] How could they be wood if they can move? Oh, sorry[;-)] The answer is proably to leave them IN the trap until next morning, then take them out to the woods.

At age 10 I went round the Treak Cliff Caverns in Castleton, Derbys, with school. I distinctly remember the guide telling us: "Stalactite: hold tight, stalagmite: little mite."

Ours is a "Bluesky" from Carrefour. Hasn't put a foot wrong yet[;-)]

Replied by PM, dunno what's the matter with my e-mail account, I've been having trouble with it. The stuff will be posted to you on Monday. Hope your friend finds comfort from it.  

Those sound like the junction boxes. French wiring doesn't use a ring-main, like the UK, but all circuits are spurs. French sokets can only take TWO wires in each screwed connection, (and some, only one!!!), so joints are generally made at junction boxes, using either special push-fit connectors, or UK-type multi-way connectors, known, round here anyway, as "chocolate bars". Each spur can then have "x" number of sockets, or "y" number of lights in parallel on it. For details of "x" and "y", ask on here, but my books are in France.....sorry[:$] In effect, so long as each room has it's own spur, (test by looking at the main distribution board, switching off that room: lighting or sockets, and see what's on and what's off), you just need to count the number of lights, sockets, etc, ensure that "x" and "y" aren't exceeded, and put new ones in. Be aware that special rules apply for sockets for dishweasher, washing machine, electric cooker, electric hob, tumble driers, and very large fridges. I'd advise you buying "L'electricite pas a pas" and "Maitriser l'Electricite", both available from Lerclerc's, and having excellent diagrams and easy tesxt, with all rules explained.

I responded to a thread asking for help sourcing tapes of birdsong. I responded to a PM, but have had no response for three days. Curious. The original poster SEEMED in a hurry to get something, and with Christmas post just around the corner............. Oh well.