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As is normal with these events, it was widely publicised, so the weather as normal co-operated and prevented anyone seeing all of the dire consequences predicted by the press, and all of the unbelievable predictions due to the predicted size and colour remain disproved.

so there is the quandry of the moderator, if we now ban you you have hit a nerve and we are in the wrong, if we dont ban you everyone will think we are going soft - much like your allegations about the police force. there are too many posts quoting other posts to hide them without totally destroying the continuity of the thread. there have been enough accusations, counter accusations on this thread, so I am locking it before I have to ban the whole membership of the forum.

The main reason we have facebook is that all the younger members are there.

people who leave off the G in words ending with .....ing

we have cranked up the aircon in the office to its utmost and set it at 16 degrees, so far today the temperature has risen from 24 indoors to 26, and we are considering ourselves cool, I popped outside earlier and it humid and muggy and hot

yes I did have trouble finding an exact replacement, but half the trick is knowing the right search terms, it looks like an older design, I have seen similar on older caravans, most now though use the telescopic design that slides out of the outer tube and locks through to the inner

this is similar https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Marine-Boat-Hatch-Window-Adjuster-and-Stay-Support-Silver-15inch-/302701434290

googling telescoping hatch adjuster might find an alternative

there is probably a caravan part that does this job, its finding a matching one that might be tricky

Its obvious why - they recycled them

My French may not be great, but I read it better than I hear it. so I have my beady eye on you lot a talking of the french - Bien Sur

does a loss of moorings make them lessings?

but you cant remember anything after drinking loads.

I am sorry, but my main cooking pot when away is a lidls non stick frying pan for £3.99, for breakfast fry the bread, cook the eggs, then the bacon, then open a tin of beans and sausages dump into the frying pan and heat, 1 pan, the beans leave it so it just needs rinse and wipe with kitchen roll.

we once had the police call round, apparently they were looking for a skinny man and a skinny woman, who were using our name and renting a housing association house from the council, they called round because it appeared we had two houses from the council. It transpired that someone at the housing association was pulling a scam, taking names from the housing list, and allocating the houses to the names, then privately renting the houses out to people who were paying extra just to get the house, needless to say, as soon as the policemen saw me and the missus, they were convinced we werent these other tenants, and as we had proof of identity nothing more came of it at our end.

I think we just filled those eggs with concrete, so just keep it within Tims new guidelines and we should all be happy, lot of work going on behind the scenes here.

not happy not cool, stuck for an hour on the M2 waiting for an accident to clear wiith the cars exterior thermometer registering 39 degrees, traffic reports were giving another closure 10 miles further due to a car fire, and a further holdup 10 miles after that, fortunately both had cleared by the time we got moving, opposite the first accident there was another two cars both on their roofs, not a great trip home.

dont bring it to kent is all I can say, I can have a brand new kettle boil it once and it is full of limescale.

my big regret this year is that when the air con radiator on my car developed a hole last year and was going to cost 1/3 of the value of the car just for the part, I declared, ah well I will do without, after all we only ever have a couple of really hot days a year. Oh has a decision ever come back and bitten me in the bum. (currently driving with all the windows open and sweltering.) I have just investigated the settings on the office aircon, yesterday it was set to 22 degrees and achieved 28 degrees, when I looked I found the fans had been set to their lowest setting, and half of the vents had been closed off (because people complained about the cold draught (my desk is at the furthest point in the office from the aircon)) fans now up to full and vents opened. even overnight the aircon had only managed to drop the temperature to 24 degrees - our big problem is a large metal flat roof about 18" above the ceiling and no insulation. before the aircon was fitted the office regularly exceeded 33 degrees, with all the windows open and fans going.

Ice cream is a must, especially on a delivery trip, and more especially when the ice cream boat comes calling

the longest run of cable I have worked on was 6.5kM at 33.000 volts ducted all the way

https://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Technical/Charts/VoltageDrop.html here is a voltage drop calculator, if you use the twin and earth you will see application options for clipped to a wall or in conduit in an insulated wall (worst case for conduit) I used 3kw and 20 m with 2 circuits, and one returned a minimum cable of 1.5mm (in air) and 2.5mm in conduit. with stuff like this its best left to qualified electricians (or at least get one to check it over once done). at work we are usually working with bigger cables, longer cable runs, but we still have to allow for cable de-rating when running the whole length in cable ducts for example.

at work our aircon is set to 21 degrees, but due to the huge roof area only managed to keep the office at 28 degrees, the roof is sheet metal, above the ceiling with no insulation.

I am not saying its a no no, its just that the cable size required run in conduit may well be a bigger cable than not in conduit, for example a cable in conduit may only be rated to carry 70% of the current the same cable run loose would (similar to an extension cable only being able to carry 5A when coiled as opposed to 13A when uncoiled)