RicandJo

You have the same pool as I do. My advice - disconnect your intex pump and throw it over the hedge. replace it with a proper sand filter pump and never look back. That's more or less exactly what I did last year, the pump supplied by intex just isn't man enough. I even left mine full of water over winter and was able to bring it back to cristal clear in an afternoon with the sand filter + pump I currently have fitted. This is the exact model I fitted - the supply and return hoses fit straight onto it.  http://www.piscines-online.com/filtre-piscine-groupe-filtration-sable-axos.html

[quote user="Chancer"]The person who believes that there are loads of good English channels perhaps?[/quote] Or the one believing there are loads of good Italian channels...............jeez I lived in Italy for 2 years their TV is total dross.  Although the show where the guy stripped the girl to her underwear using a massive digger was pretty cool...........[:D] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZuvGFZwVPU

Footman James will give you extended cover for as long as you like. http://www.footmanjames.co.uk/

F18 = ramjet engine.........

Chancer......you really do need to get out more........[B] [:D]

I take it you mean using toilet paper as an air intake filter? I reckon the car would stink a bit if you used it for cabin air filter.......

I don't really get the comparison of fighter jet engines being damaged to passenger jet engines. The two engines are totally different. Fast jets use low bypass engines whereby 80% of the air sucked in by the intake goes through the core of the engine. Obviously in areas of light ash concentration their damage threshold will be much lower than that of passenger jets because so much more air goes through the core. Passenger jets use high bypass engines - only 20% of the air sucked in actually goes through the core. Obviously prolonged flight through even low concentrations may cause a degree of damage which is why the CAA have stipulated an implementation of maintenance inspections for ash contaminations every day until further notice.........funny that, imagine my surprise!

Yup. Reckon you got ash in the filters, clogging them up :)

About 400 miles per year I reckon, it's just a toy. It's 31 years old though so I reckon I'm saving the world the energy required to make two whole cars. No in all seriousness no I don't grow my own veg (not all of it anyway) and cooking with wood is for boy scouts and Ray Mears ;) I do commute to work each week though on a 737. And I recall not so long ago ground running a 146RJ at high power for about 15 minutes to diagnose a defect, I think we burned off a tonne and a half of fuel before we figured out what was wrong ;). So maybe I do use more than you......yes I think so!! Yeah my cousin was nearly killed when he rolled a Jeep down a hill too. Gotta watch em.

I probably use less of the worlds resources than you.....

If I do 70mph I get around 9 mpg. I can get it up to 15 by cruising at 55!! :)

I'm on the 0830 ferry Dover-Calais Friday as foot passenger, gonna take the TGV then to Narbonne, if he wants a travel companion!

Am I going to be the only passenger going the other way on Friday???

I half considered offering a hand until you mentioned the 'doesn't know if it's seaworthy' bit!!! I've done a fair bit of open water cruising though not in the med (Canaries, up to Madeira and back plus racing round Danish coastlines). I reckon your friends best plan is to hug the coastline, do it in two days with a stop around beziers. I think it's around 180 miles from Marseille to Perpignan (very roughly), you could probably expect around 5 knots from the boat, which means about 36 hours of sailing. Stay in sight of land, inform the coast guard of the intended route and ensure your friend has a safety package on board. Ensure flares are in date.

I can't see the airlines putting up with this much longer. I envisage a scenario whereby the European aviation authorities and airlines come to an arrangement which allows flights to resume but with ash damage inspections of airframes and borescope inspections of engines being carried out each night until further notice.

All RYR services from UK cancelled until Monday 1300 hrs.  At least they are offering refunds, which they are not actually required to do as a volcano is outside their control......... Insurers however seem to be playing the 'act of god' card. And yes, it's one hell of a cloud, and still coming.  Not particularly dense, in fact to look up at the sky you wouldn't know, but this stuff is real nasty for aircraft to fly through, and it doesn't show up on the weather radar.  It is so fine it makes talcum powder look like builders sand but it is incredibly abrasive. Hey ho.

Can you set compatability view when using google chrome???? One machine I use at work is unstable with IE so has to run with Google Chrome, which is better anyway I feel....... But I can't post links/smileys etc etc

Latest graphic from VAAC London - look at the bottom right picture, shows the anticipated extent of the ash cloud at 0600 tomorrow (17th). http://metoffice.com/aviation/vaac/data/VAG_1271417376.png Don't think I'm going home tomorrow :( I hope Mrs 38 week pregnant J doesn't go into labour this week.............[8-)]

My Alliance and leicester card doesn't work in auto pumps, works fine at the counter and cash machines.......but my Lloyds one does work everywhere. Figure that one out......

All flights cancelled until tomorrow lunchtime. Doesn't look good for my freedom bird home on Saturday :( And as usual on days like this the rest of the airport went home hours ago and I'm still at work waiting for an aircraft main battery to arrive by road, which I have to replace before I can knock it on the head. :(

Errrrr squeeze me????

UK airspace locked down until 7am tomorrow (16th) at least. (from NATS)

Met office this evening published this graphic showing the Icelandic volcanic ash cloud forecast up to 1200Z tomorrow (15th).  Basically I expect it means all aviation inside the red area will be closed......... http://metoffice.com/aviation/vaac/data/VAG_1271267153.png Hoping for a southerly wind to blow it back north again.......

Thanks for the info - it'll do me for now until I get around to running in a second cable!!! our living room is ultimately going to end up in the kitchen anyway so no point monkeying about too much for now.

[quote user="devilsadvocate"] It's not clear in the original query whether the OP has a single/dual/quad LNB. To use the Humax to its full capacity (record one channel whilst watching another) you need a dual LNB and twin cables from the dish to the Humax. If you have another Sky box elsewhere in the house then you'll need a cable for that too and a quad LNB. you can either run another cable alongside the exisitng one or replace the original with "shotgun" cable (if the cable length is 20 metres or less) by attaching it to the old cable and pulling it through, which is what I did. Great piece of kit when it's set up and working. There are, as Dog says, some channels on the Sky box which are not on the Humax, (none that I would watch though), but on the other hand you get the 2 HD channels, BBC and ITV. The World Cup will be broadcast in HD for all you footy fans! DA [/quote] Not necessarily........To use the box to it's full potential and record two channels simultaneously you need to connect two satellite inputs.  You can however have it record one channel whilst you watch another by looping the LNB out back to the second LNB in........no idea what the difference is but that's what the destruction book says! Just to clarify I'm talking about this box: http://www.humaxdirect.co.uk/product.asp?ProdRef=10076&cat=Factory