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I remember (vaguely) about a plane whose navigation equipment was faulty. It was landing at Heathrow and got quite low before the pilots realised that they were above a road (A4) . They aborted the landing, and went round again. They got it right second time as I recall so all is well, and we...

Good idea. I have been playing with the Gnome desktop. I can see things that I like about it - more so than unity, but I might give the Ubuntu-Mate a try tomorrow. I have burnt plenty of ISOs now, generally to a usb stick, it is getting to be second nature. It would be lovely if I could...

Thanks, sounds simple. I will try that later (on a fresh Ubuntu install) as an experiment. Phill

Maybe I will, as I like the way Ubuntu touch people are talking. Run Ubuntu on a mobile phone in mobile mode and link it to a monitor and keyboard to run it as a full desktop. That way you can carry your desktop in your pocket, and still use it on the go. They are not there yet, but what they...

Thanks Rodders, Interesting selection, and I may end up using this style of connector but it is not what I had in mind. Perhaps I should describe what I had in mind....... The standard style for linking water butts is at the top, so that one flows into the next, but that only solves the...

At risk of diverting this thread a little, though it seems to have gone quiet..... I want to join up a few water butts. Each butt will have a tap. the tap will have a pipe attached, which will join into a common pipe to feed a tap. What pipe should I use, and what fittings? I like the idea...

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and popular psychologists are from Uranus? :lol:

Unfortunately not. There is little room near the gate - none of it level. And if the bins were that far from the house then one of us (guess who) would always have the job of carrying the rubbish from the house bins to the wheelie bin. It is always good to explore other solutions but that one...

[[Edit: Oooops, BlackRod already worked out your nearest store. Never mind I will leave this post in case anyone else is interested]] Mole Valley Farmers have several outlets. Their original is at South Molton (Mole Town). They seem to be very good value for money. Bridgwater...

The link to the eyesore was intended as a reply to RobinBHM, not n0legs. I should have made that clear. It is too easy to confuse with a hasty reply. [[With the eyesore I have some sympathy for the council. The girls parents campaigned for a couple of years for wheelchair access, then...

Like this?

Just had a measure, and the new part of the path route works out to a minimum slope of one in eleven (~9%). This is a minimum, pushing hard at the edges of what I want to do. So the project is reasonable - and may even be wheelchair friendly (apart from the steps at the top). My thanks for...

Thanks for the information. I will look at the current plan and see what kind of slope I will get. I will also measure the current slopes. Thankfully I am not building for wheelchair access as the total rise is on the order of fifteen foot to the road - 1 in 12 gives a path 180ft long. at...

Hi all, the weather is getting better so I am looking at the outdoor jobs. One task for this year is to reroute part of the path to the front door. I have some ideas but do not know what sort of maximum slope (end-to end, not side-to-side) to aim for (aim under). Ideally we would avoid steps...

Our decking was installed last year and has mellowed to about the right shade. When the dry weather comes we want to treat it to extend its life and maybe retain the current shade. Does anyone have any recommendations as to what we should use? We may want eventually to paint with anti-slip...

How musical do you mean? I noodle around with whistles for my own entertainment. I even made a whistle. Just the one. It took seven heads and four bodies to get it right (ish). Some old stuff

Cracker. Well placed log. Why did he not disassemble ii top down though? Less spectacular but safer maybe.

Those words were never uttered by Cicero, however, and the reason no one ever quoted them as such until about fifty years ago is because they weren't written until 1965. They sprang from the pen of Taylor Caldwell, a fiction writer best known for historical novels such as Captains and the Kings...

I am a vegetarian, and enjoyed it immensely. I shows that some people do not like to think of where their food comes from. 'You made sausages out of a pig? Thats disgusting!' I agree. Send it to your granddaughter - she will likely laugh too.