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Yes, anvil prices are £silly. I've been looking for a half decent one at a sensible price for our recently opened Men's Shed. When I see asking prices starting around £120 and going up to £200+ for scabby old things with a bowed top plate, no Hardy Hole and a broken tip to the taper I think...

How short sighted and ill informed. I have worked for a fairly large UK charity for many years and know and understand how finances work for the majority for them and your statement isn't accurate. However, there is a minority of charities which grossly overpay their senior (usually board-level)...

Gordon Bennett and all his family! What a fortunate escape - I assume you were fortunate in avoiding flying bits?

Yes SELECTORTONE you're absolutely right. As an apprentice I was put in charge of the battery shop and the old guy who had been doing the job spent a while explaining the chemistry of the lead/acid battery. He warned against leaving any battery, regardless of capacity, off charge for much more...

Batteries these days aren't cheap, at least not if you're replacing one on a car that has the stop/restart system. Depending on the actual type they can be upwards of £180.00, and in my book that isn't cheap. Other contributors are right, in that once a car refuses to start it probably isn't...

Hi Clogs, I was under the impression that all pallet wood had been treated and shouldn't be burned in a log-burner? That the noxious chemical fumes given off are pollutants?

Wow, that's a super piece of work. Wish I was able to turn out pieces like this!

Think of your tastes as ESOTERIC rather than odd!

WOW!!! Not of course that I'm envious or anything. Yours outstrips mine by a factor of 4 or 5! I have what amounts to a single garage, plus a brick/block extension that I built after I demolished my old darkroom that had been in a rotting and falling down wooden/corrugated iron/felted roof...

Thank you.

Ha, we'll remember that you said this, not that I'm cynical of course!

I'm with you brother! These johnny-cum-latelys know nothing of fine cuisine!

I have a couple of new lengths of LARGE soil pipe (110mm I believe). Will check tomorrow if anyone's interested. It makes a relatively inexpensive means of installing a large extraction system, especially if you're using a high volume/ large power motor extractor. Spurring off a large primary...

I don't know you, but want to say that I'm thinking of you and sending positive vibes. I'd say I'd pray for you, but that would suggest I'm a believer. No need to say 'fight it' I'm sure. All the very best.

Sounds like we are similar in what kind of workshop space we have. Although there was about 1/3rd more space originally than now, I accepted my wife's sugegstion that we (meaning I) rebuild the old falling down part that used to house my darkroom prior to digital, and reduce the original...

Thanks for that suggestion. As I believe I said, my old hearing aid has literally dropped apart and so am overdue for booking a visit to the NHS Hearing Centre, so I will ask about the Danlogic Ambio. Your comment is much appreciated!

S So, you know the fun of Tinnitus too? Mine began when my wife gave me a 'tender' tap around the face. It came on at FULL VOLUME jet engine at take-off in my left ear and has barely diminished in all the 40 years since. What it HAS done is to increase in volume, it's gathered additional sounds...

Ha, that was the name! We always bought a range of beans from them locally (Birmingham) to suit those of us who drink the stuff until they stopped trading. Great pity! Since then, as I had said before, I found that the Lidl BIG bags of Espresso beans which come around 3 or 4 times a year are...

Hi Roland. You jogged my memory today. MONSOON MALABAR, yes I agree. I used to be able to buy it from a coffee shop chain - can't immediately recall the name - but they went out of business. It produced a wonderfully rich cup.

Amen to that.