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What a shame you won't be doing the inside. It seems like a great space to store all your spare timber!! Phil

Well at least we'll be able to generate a little wind energy rather than having to rely on oil & gas these last few days! Please take note Mr Miliband.

Verging on a joke I believe! I must get a stock of them!!!

I was paid £4.00 a week as a trainee surveyor in 1973, My car was paid more than I was due to the mileage I did!! Phil

I'm with Okeydokey, BUT, as so much now is sold on line, shops, ie physical entities that you go in, chat to the sales staff etc, have less and less of what I'm after. It's very rare form me to get home after a shopping expedition and say ' I got everything on my list'! However, I do click and...

Not forgetting the Trotters Van - New York, Paris, Peckham!

In the old days, you could buy Pig's Trotters at 3d each. That's 9d a yard!! Phil

I remember going on a canal boat in the late 1960s through Wigan. On the way, we overtook a 14ft wide barge, clearly a local working boat, being pulled by a husband and wife, each of who had iron shod clogs on. It obviously gave them excellent grip on the towpath which I think was mostly...

I seem to remember seeing that 'Benny' from cross Roads was a keen woodturner. And yes, Winston was in fact quite accomplished at brick laying, the walls he built at Chartwell are still standing. He did however have someone doing the mixing and hod carrying! Phil

Clearly not navigation legal - No Port & Starboard lights!! Phil

A property I'm involved with upgrading has been waiting for 8 months for Openreach to provide the necessary broadband connection.. It's in a large village, not far from Oxford! When they finally deigned to turn up, it took 4 visits to actually make the physical connection, on 17th Dec, but it...

Forward thinking as ever, my wife and I have finally agreed that we need a new mattress - but which one, there are so many types, variations etc. Anyone out there have some recent experience, good or bad. Price is less of an issue than comfort and ease of use (ie weight when changing sheets or...

Just another example of WTF!! https://www.msn.com/en-gb/lifestyle/lifestylegeneral/how-to-make-your-own-diy-pencil-holder-in-8-steps/ar-AA1mZhA3?ocid=entnewsntp&pc=U531&cvid=ac662f5c1ad54974be3b0d35b7f333da&ei=63 One of the illustrations shows a saw which MIGHT be a little blunt and a tad...

Sorry you've had problems with your Shark. Mine's been fantastic. My only beef is that the 'bag' is too small for the efficiency!!

More like Red Friday!!

Isn't it time we have photos of Easter Eggs, after all, it's only a few months away!!!

Isn't one or two sufficient? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/186456520099 Phil

Not a patch on Ely Cathedral though me' thinks Phil

My understanding is that, what drove many people to Hitler was the retribution in monitory term, reduction of forces and loss of land that, particularly the French exacted after WWI. At least one lesson was learnt when the allies defeated Hitler in 1945. Phil

To quote Dad's Army We're Doomed Trump is for Trump and no one else. Phil