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FairTmiddlin

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  1. The winter of discontent 1976/77 3 day weeks, no power for 12 hours a day. If your power was off in the evenings and getting home from work in getting something cooked if you had no gas in the house. We were lucky to have one like this but with a square metal cover on the front, big enough to get a saucepan and a kettle on. We lived on all type of one pot stews for weeks. Went on first thing in the morning. ready for evening meal. Mind you I was never on a 3 day week, as the company I worked for started to make Farm PTO generators, about a year before the strikes. They designed a home generator too about two months before the strikes started. I ended up working 14 hour days 6 days a week and Sunday mornings to keep up with the demand.
  2. Plenty of Cyclepath's still here in kent Especially since they closed Chartham
  3. Ah but Dover District council thought it was not PC for the town But Banksy got the better of them
  4. So it's a paraffinic fuel oil which has to have FAME (fatty acid Methyl Esthers) added to lubricate pumps and injectors. Hoping that euro 1 engines of which the majority of Broads boats are have O rings and other sealing parts mostly made of rubber based materials are up to be used with FAME. I notice that most testing has been done on euro 5 /6 vehicles. All which have DPF's fitted, wondering what the inland marinised with water fed exhausts will fare in the emissions tests. Also it has a higher cetane number which means it has a higher calorific value. Maybe, that older engines may not have the valves and seats applicable to this type of fuel. They are citing a near 50% increase in calorific value, I would think that Nanni's and the more modern types should be OK, but! Perkins and BMC's it maybe detrimental to their wellbeing.
  5. Hi all Your topics for Friday are 1 How 2 Nursery Tales 3 Which 4 Who 5 What 6 GT Don't Forget Friday 20:30 Chat Room http://www.nbnquiz.co.uk/chat/ No pass word just enter a name and login
  6. Lots use that one. BT is 1572 then follow instructions
  7. Page 119 The pattern of national landscapes across England has been remarkably static. After a burst of activity in the 1950s the creation of new National Parks slowed to a crawl. Only the Broads, New Forest and the South Downs have been added in recent years (1988, 2005 and 2009 respectively) along with extensions to the Yorkshire Dales and Lake District in 2016.
  8. Call barring number is 14258 **
  9. Having lost my Dad at the age of 23. On Christmas eve the spirit of Christmas went from me at that age. Although having kids and seeing the joy of Christmas in their eyes somewhat softens the blow, it never was the same . Griff So sorry to hear of Mrs G's loss and hope you can raise a glass to the dear soul that was MIL together this special time of year as I shall to my Dad.
  10. We all know MM's location well I found it courtesy of his new phone
  11. No W3W works offline https://support.what3words.com/en/articles/2212844-does-what3words-work-offline The possibility is the sensitivity of the location gps on the device.
  12. Problem being that these calls are generated from a VOIP (voice over internet phone) and you can spoof any number you wish. The phone companies can do nothing about it. as most of them hide behind a VPN (Virtual Phone Network) there is no way to track them that way either. All of the numbers they call are bought from people. who just call and when you pick up, the phone the number just rings off. That way they know it's a live number and someone, at the other end is willing to answer the phone. They buy these numbers in thousands, in computer language, which then generates the recorded message to you, they sit back and wait for someone to Press 1
  13. Griff Words escape me mate. Chin up does not seem to help in these times. My thoughts are with you.
  14. You been on the Wine again at lunch
  15. Possibly oil gallery blocked ?
  16. And Ellie says. She doesn't know what the fuss is all about his big end.
  17. Brian This is Your Life No it's not he's just a very naughty boy. And shouldn't be having all this adulation.
  18. You cant be you can spell Disli deslixier oh you know wot I Mein
  19. Possibly the worst official notice ever. What is a Country Court?
  20. With MM's level of patina I would have thought ASTROTURF
  21. Looks more like BBC (no not the Broadcast organisation) needs to pay the subs to get it to embed.
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