Does anyone want an electric drill, it's years old, but has never been opened. When I was given it, I kept it as a spare in case my Black and Decker died, but I figure that if I ever need a new one now, I'll go for a cordless anyway.


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I got stuck in the lift today. It jerked to a sudden halt and I thought it had actually bottomed. Then had to wait 20 minutes for the engineer to come and open the doors. When he did, I saw the lift had stopped about a foot early and had to jump down ( Read more... )

Due to a Cock up on my part, I've just lost all my emails between the 17th of April and the 9th of June.

On the plus side, I've learned that Norton Ghost V12 doesn't work properly with Windows 7

Under the cut few images from a very good night out. More fun, I think, than I have had in the best part of a year
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Before I post this on the give stuff away group, Do any of my friends want this
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I'm afraid that my camera played up. It was the first time that I have let the battery run flat on this camera, so I was snapping away and it wasn't recording anything, so I don't have as many pictures of the build for the bank of computers as I would have liked, ( Continued )

The forecast says the ash cloud is likely to be over the UK Monday and Tuesday, maybe clearing Wednesday. I'm scheduled to fly out Thursday. Is anyone else wondering about backup plans to get there ( Read more... )

There is one good thing about this new version of the Prisoner. At least it gives them an excuse to re-run the real version on ITV4.

Be seeing you.

Yesterday, I tried my hand at cooking Chili Sauce, based on this Recipe, but smaller proportions, a bit of sugar, malt instead of rice vinegar and no salt or fish sauce. I'm very pleased with the result, nice and hot! The aftermath wasn't as bad as I was expecting either ( Read more... )

I really don't feel like going on the walk today. And for the record, I haven't checked the list to see who is, or isn't going.