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Separett composting toilets have a bucket inside, and you can get spares from them with good lids for not much cash. I believe in the UK after six months it's not regarded as hazardous anymore. Certainly when I went to a UK dealer they showed me the end result and you wouldn't have any idea what...

I believe you can't be a UK firefighter with a beard for the same reason.

Hi I wasn't being serious because I think no-one could have any sort of definitive opinion for a generation or two yet. But, the pound has indeed risen since we left at the beginning of this year which your graph does show but not very clearly because of the timescale you've shown. The big peak...

When I melted lead on a hob to make dive weights the saucepan melted???? Our son is good with measuring, UK tapes that I like have imperial and metric and he likes inches and feet best (in the UK) for some reason. I usually use mm but most tapes have cm, with metres marked in red but still as a...

You've got that the wrong way round. If it wasn't for Brexit everything would be much more expensive :)

I was told the price of getting a shipping container to the UK from China has gone from 3_4£K to 10K. Cement was about £6 a waterproof bag last year for me to almost twice that now. Nearest B&Q to me is limiting them to two per customer so I'm told. A strainer fence post was about £23 last year...

A silly little phrase I like is it takes a village to raise a child. Every person who visits us for work has full exposure to our six year old unless or until they say otherwise or he plays up which he mostly doesn't. Nobody so far has said anything negative, and are always to my recollection...

For a strimmer;

If a hole was drilled through all layers together then an anchor bolt screwed in after a bit of vacuuming would that work? Anchor bolts wouldn't need the hole to be as clean, and a small bit of extra depth gives somewhere for unremoved to dust to live out of the way? I did that on my shed. Why...

I just turned 50 so maybe I must buy one immediately?

I had a series 3 lightweight petrol soft top from about 1991 to 2002. Some of that was 2 years as a daily commuter from Ongar to Lakeside mostly via the M25, with one six week trip around the perimeter of France with the sides rolled up, some off roading but mostly daily use throughout. It was...

That's funny! :)

On a construction site we used to get cut and bent rebar delivered in ton bags which were deemed to be single lift, (labelled as such) many H&S eejits would insist that wherever they got put initially was where they stayed. So offload a lorry when you start a build then that 20 odd tons stays...

I thought the active noise cancelling ones from the likes of Bose would let voice through? I like bigger passive cans because they cut everything, are comfy and not silly money. I have had three pairs of active noise cancelling from Bose to £30 amazon ones and not been a fan. Also, I discovered...

Some interesting points. Marking stuff outside was the basis of my work, and without getting a 15m or 30m tape out would try and always use a Stanley 8m Powerlock. Changing to an 8m Max would screw up how things went, some reckoned bigger and more stand out were super useful but i think it was...

If I could entirely work from home with a laptop I would be worried it could be done by someone cheaper anywhere? WFH and not commuting is surely a white collar thing? Not wishing to poke anyone but the phrase "There has never been a lockdown, just poor people delivering things to rich people...

This is where I think the current trajectory must take us. If every bit of travel is bad it must be minimised. So all food must be grown as close as possible to the people. People must be as close as possible to each other. This is the only logical end point to what we are told must happen. In...

How does cycling to MiccyDs fit into that? :)

The video I linked to with the silly Audi commented that Euro 7 coming in very soon (2025) may well make ICEs too expensive, too complicated and not worth the manufacturer investment considering the supposed ban in 2030 for "green" reasons, so that rather than any EU govt will stop the sale of...

£134,290 93KWh, for a range of 241 miles on eco when this first drive started, maybe less when deploying 600hp :) Harry is good value I think