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Probably giving a bit too much away here, but I'll throw my two cents in. I worked in the prison service, particularly around offender learning, for three years. I think the system was roughly equivalent to the academies that we're going to be getting soon in that they were free to teach...

Mechanical pencil from Muji for me. I also have a £20 japanese made staedtler one which is perfectly balanced. It taked 0.3mm leads though and they tend to break on wood.

Forgot to add that we did attempt to go direct to the landlord by asking the tenant for his details. Apparently the estate agents flat out refused to give his details to the tenant, their reason being that they were managing the property for him and they would mediate any issues. I don't know if...

The council removed a bin just up the path from my house because they didn't have the budget for it. The resulting rubbish thrown in to the bushes because people can't be bothered to walk an extra 50 feet before throwing it away has caused what seems like thousands of rats to move in. I think...

Quick update. The current tenant moved out a few days ago, the estate agent went round on the day to check everything out and let slip that they'd had someone lined up all along. Apparently it sounded as if they were 'doing someone a favour', so maybe a friend or relative. Whoever called it...

They've probably been sat in a backroom for years until a manager decided they were sick of seeing them and put them out on the shelves at that price to get rid of them.

Oiled my lathe after a winter of neglect.

You can get a fairly decent plane second hand from ebay. I'd suggest car boot sales, but I've found that they're generally in awful condition at the car boots closer to me. I got a Stanley 41/2 on ebay for £18. Brand new, half a century old, unused in the box with the original price label still...

Has anyone on here made their own wood clamps? If so, did you follow a guide or come up with your own design? I need some big clamps for when I glue up my dining table, and in the interest of being cost effective I was wondering if I could do it myself (Not that that hasn't got me in trouble in...

How reasonable is it to fit a kitchen yourself? I'm seeing a lot of social media posts at the moment, either from blogs that are showing people how to fit their own kitchens (or build from scratch) or from people who have actually done it themselves. I was under the impression that kitchen...

There's probably a happy medium here somewhere.

They've painted themselves in to a corner with parking charges. They're taking enough flak from the funding end that removing parking fees would be another blow that they can't handle, but at the same time the fees shouldn't have existed in the first place.

I'm 25 so I think I'd probably qualify as a young person. I'd probably say that if a young person even had chance to go through an anti-establishment period (whatever that is) these days, they probably don't have the luxury of applying it to furniture. My anti-establishment phase ended at...

Specially made for getting the lids off paint tins that have dried shut.

Thanks for your help AJB.

We have no problem with paying the estate agents their finding fee or whatever they're expecting. I've dealt with estate agents a few times in the past and every time they surprise me with what awful human beings they are. I don't know what it is about the job that attracts them to it, or turns...

I'm aware that I probably don't look ideal. I'm not on benefits (I think I have too much in savings to qualify), so I'm just living off my redundancy payment which was generous. I came from a fairly respectable job and I have decent qualifications and am actively looking for work. My girlfriend...

Thanks for the quick replies. I think we'll ask the current tenant to let the landlord know we're interested and that we're happy to put the money up front. Another issue is that I'm still jobless after my voluntary redundancy, but financially (barring anything completely unexpected) I could...

I keep trying to turn that off, but I just logged in and apparently it has tracked me as recently as the 16th of March. I'm certain I've turned it off half a dozen times. It's ridiculously accurate for me, too.

Hi, not been on here for a while, but I tend to get good advice so I thought I'd post. Basically I'm at the end of my rope with our rented house. I've posted about issues with neighbours before, as well as the terrible heating but over christmas the bad weather managed to make a mess of the...