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Ah Yes!! The good old Beauford ****!! Good luck fishing near there...just ask any Kilkeel fisherman... Estimates vary, but 100,000 tons ordnance seems a good average. Some of it now over 100 years old...forget the Titanic for detailed surveys, this one is far closer to land, in relatively...

Good point Deema. I appreciate the validity of it, but, looking at my three childrens' experiences of trying to get on the housing ladder - in three very different parts of Britain - we have to do SOMETHING to make housing available. Solar/insulation is terrific, but the reality is, not everyone...

Thanks for the informed reply Spectric. I had not appreciated your point re landscape and buildings. Against that I might counter with the increased corrosion of sea bed bases, compared to land ones, but t.b.h., I also realised I need to fill out my knowledge a LOT more with facts and figures. I...

John, you missed out: "compare a new statement to existing information and make a judgement on its veracity". That's called discerning thought.

Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! 1. "targeting the new houses to reduce there (their?) demand for energy" Yes, it would. But if it puts the prices up, and YOU as a twenty or thirty-something struggling to get a mortgage, would YOU financially herniate yourself to go solar tiles? 2. "Don't forget they are...

"AI"? Very poorly named. It is simply a step up from Google in that it (apparently) compares content across multiple sources and paraphrases what it finds. Considering the SISO mantra referred to above, the more S that is posted by wannabee narcissists, the more erroneous the compilation by AI...

Adrian, this point totally ignores the fact that a lot of ladies are choosing to have families later - if at all. That they put lifestyle and/or job prospects first instead of toeing the mysogenistic line of "little woman home, in the kitchen" seems to have escaped some so-called compilers...

With all this Anglo-centric commentary re Greasy Fog, The Truss etc, may I just point out that, in a quiet, deeply bigoted, sheep-rearing corner of Ulster, for the first time in 50 years, there will be no Paisley as M.P.? That was the good news. Bad news? The incoming individual is to the...

Barebear, I processed many feet of teak and your photos do not initially ring true. The first photo certainly resembles teak colouration; the rest are a bit "hmmm ...not quite right", especially that one with regularised grain; more like 'mahogany' in all its variations. A good test for teak is...

Having been the recipient of one of the old Austin windscreens coming apart on the Dublin ring road during Friday rush hour, I NEVER bellyache* about cost or 'necessity' regarding them. * I wrote b.i.t.c.h. but the digital nanny changed it to "puppy"....😳

Anyone championing P.R. as a means of selecting a "governing body reflective of the populace" need only have lived in Northern Ireland ("Norn Iron") in the last two decades to realise the fallacy that it is. Admittedly, over there it was completely hamstrung by needing 'cross-community...

BrantB, I taught many teenagers labelled "A.D.D." and "A.D.H.D." over a 37 year career. Derek is absolutely right: there may be more than one 'game afoot', more than one cause or treatment; those two acronyms are just a convenient 'catch all' bracketing. Everybody's different. May I please...

Brian, the four camera system? If you still have it, yes please; what is the total after p&p?

Krenov inspired?

Totally agree. Even on 'golden oldies' like Wadkin, Sagar, Robinson, Dominion, a full length table saw fence always had a subsidiary fence fixed to the face of the long fence, such that the subsidiary never went beyond either the saw blade edge or (less frequently) the blade centreline. This...

I've posted this before: a Bob Wearing tip? On the safety stick propelling the wood into the blade, cut a 'Vee' into the 'top' of the birdsmouth with a router, or canny-applied tablesaw cut. It enables locking on to the corner of the wood being sawn, so that you can push on to the wood from 45⁰...

I did a version of what Ollie78 just posted. I hunted Farcepuke Muckitupplace and Bumtree until I found a "wrong measurements" set of French doors. I had a drive, but the originator of the duff details was only too glad to get some cash, rather than a write-off. I think I got them for 20% of...

As a student, not far from there, 47 years ago, we used to get 'gofer' jobs ("go get this, go fer that") round the course. So glad padding of obstacles has improved by leaps and bounds since then, fewer statistics.. We were all too aware of the insanity perpetrated there; especially on the long...

Carpenter by force of circumstances (newly married/ no money); joiner ditto (still continuing with three 30-something children availing of "Dad-DIY?"); aspirational cabinet maker, everybody has to have a goal. Even in retirement.

I'm surprised no-one has mentioned "pre-atomic" steel and at least one manufacturer's much-publicised quest for old (think 1800-1900) anchor chain in that context? The (exploited) point was: steel with fewer contaminents, then worked by traditional heavy pounding, created a better edge-holding...