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  1. Ah! But the Cowbelle Cheese would have more amperage tolerance once it dried out.
  2. And having seen MM's incriminating photo's. I can avow to that.
  3. But it's not even an historic building. It was built in the 1920s, in an Arts and crafts style. And is not a listed building.
  4. As the article said the availability of 1. a Thatcher (it's a dying trade I'm afraid) 2 Availability of Norfolk Reed Or any reed in fact is in short supply and would have to wait for three years, just to get the extension thatched. I have a friend who hires out one of her barns to a thatcher and was chatting to him out of interest as my uncle was a thatcher in Suffolk. He told me that even if he could buy reed to thatch, the price of it is so prohibitive that customers baulk at the cost. His main Thatching material now is long-stalked straw. But this is getting to be in shorter and shorter supply, year on year as farmers are going for more yield from shorter stalked varieties.
  5. As others have said I never met Ian. But, It was almost like I had. His life was an open book. I will miss reading his next chapter. My condolences to Marina. Alan and all of the family. Please keep us up to date with the arrangements Alan.
  6. Alan to you your Mum, Sister and family No decision about a family member is easy. Having had those choices to make. My heart goes out to you. Do the right thing for your Dad My thoughts are with you all.
  7. Yes. I suppose face-to-face Moderation, would be a bit awkward
  8. The advice given to me when rescuing someone is to face them towards you, so you can communicate efficiently, but cross arms and as they rise they twist and sit on the edge.
  9. Problem is people who don't know the trade, think it's a cushy life. First thing you have to do in the morning is turn the key in the front door. Far from it, it is an unrelenting task. I will take you through an average Friday for me as a manager. 6am---- Get up and take off the alarm. Wait for dray lorry to turn up usually between 6:30 to 7 am, Put stock away. (The sorting out of stock was Thursday evening) Come back upstairs usually by 8am Let in the cleaner wait till they finish whilst restocking drinks. Finally, at 9:30am I can get a cup of tea and some breakfast. A shower and get myself sorted. Time to do the books daily entry from the day before. Sort out float in tills. check change situation for weekend and phone bank for change order. It's now 10:45 tills downstairs and into registers staff arrive. 11am open doors, customers start arriving. Turn on kitchen appliances get ovens hot. Make sure all is running smoothly. Rush upstairs and change into chefs whites come down and prep veg salads and such like. 12 midday restaurant opens. Cook until 2:15 Rush upstairs change and down to bank to collect change. Home, shower And back downstairs to run the bar for the afternoon maybe grab a cup of tea on the go usually cold by half a cup, do this until 5:15 Kitchen back on for food at 6pm change once again. Clean down kitchen from lunch cook until 9pm. Clean kitchen again. Upstairs shower change, back down to bar work until 11:30. Finally lock up. Turn off the lights Go upstairs reconcile the tills and float up for next day that's midnight and I'm still buzzing watch TV for an hour usually fall asleep in the chair. 7 hours later do it all over again less the dray. Yep another day in paradise. Did that for 6 and a half years no holidays as such. Be a landlord they say it will be fun! And don't mention all the drunks who want a fight, because you won't serve them anymore.
  10. The reference is in the left picture Drop.Warns.Memo https://what3words.com/drop.warns.memo
  11. Just come through Beccles by road and the water is over the bank by the bridge. And the Waveney Valley has fields flooded all the way to Diss.
  12. Good news Griff The recovery now hopefully will be steady
  13. Rust Or Very Expensive Repairs. Just About Going After Repairs. Mostly It's No Ignition. Can you tell I worked in an Austin Rover dealership
  14. Griff my thoughts are with you and the family. I hope all goes well.
  15. Points gap usually 20 thou. Timing if I remember is keyed crank to flywheel. If not be about 5 degrees before TDC. But last time I worked on them was at least 35 years ago.
  16. I know a good driving instructor if needed.
  17. And wear a decent pair of gloves. I remember those edges well.
  18. Chris The days that beer died Red barrel, Whitbread trophy, Double Diamond. all keg ales were truly awful. But in most places all you could get. Thankfully cask ales were revived.
  19. You mean these guys https://industrialenginespecialists.co.uk/kubota-parts
  20. From the early Kubota tractors I used to sell certainly looks like a 50hp model to me.
  21. Although the outline of the track is there for them to follow. Don't know if Vauxhall bridge would carry the weight.
  22. Someone has bigger Ambitions. But not quite so broad. About 10 miles off the southeast coast This morning.
  23. One of these should suffice https://webshop.vetus.com/en/product/bs1503c-battery-splitter-150a
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