Search results

In all the probably hundreds of conversations in the weeks up til the election I didn't hear Israel mentioned once.

Good.:LOL:

He did. That's why he said it's going to be six.

Easy to make it seven.

How many decades ago was that?

Done.

A small bundle of offcuts of good quality mahogany. My mother bought the boards in 1975, so it's dry. Not a lot but good for pen blanks, finials, intarsia, built up turnery etc. It seems wasteful to burn it. A fiver to you favourite small charity and I'll stand the P&P. (there are a few...

I'd go with a species of oak. L.P. has very vivid flecks, but doen't really have the long medullary rays that the oaks do.

A relative told me years ago he had worked on huge council estates in the Midlands in the '50s. The houses were primitive, they weren't even plastered inside, they were painted bare brickwork. They had one light, one light switch and one power point per room other than the kitchen. They were...

Great when you get it all over your hands every time you use the thing.

Nor do most adults.

My neighbour's son's a sparkie, he's worked on housing association (which is owned by the council, so council) houses that have needed total gutting two or three times in the same year, one within weeks of being let. I researched electric hobs years ago and bought one, it's been fine. I read...

and bad tenants?

In a democracy we wouldn't be governed by a government elected by one person in five.

I once halved a 250mm x 75mm piece of some kind of African mahogany (I don't know what it was, it was found in the sea - my bench top is two other pieces) - One side bowed and wound to the point it was unusable in any longer length, the other I could have used as a straight edge.

Ideal.

I know years ago honing oil at school was 50/50 engine oil and paraffin.

https://penturners.co.uk/

I spoke only yesterday to a chap who lives in fairly new (2012ish) housing down the road, some housing association, some part owned and he was moaning that he didn't have a log fire like his mother had because it was a cheap way of heating the house. I said it's not cheap, we burned (in a...

40,000 Somalians in the UK (England, primarily) are in social housing. Over 50% of social housing in London is taken by immigrants. This of course has absolutely nothing to do with any shortage.