I would just like to say

Wimblowdriver said:

Can't be Defender. No rust ----- . But could be a fan / air box

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I ought to have more courage in my convictions. I thought the round bit might well indicate a fan type thing, but didn't dare say so.

Stanleysteamer said:

OK, not having a Defender, give us a clue?!

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Heater box, this was the old one!

Stanleysteamer said:

Very annoying, I can however see if I have got a 27mm deep socket or box spanner and if not go get one from Halfrauds

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I gotted one of them from Half's, with a breaker bar. Keep it in me tratter, for wheel nuts. Half's best type, can't remember what they call it but they keep their best stuff in a locked display case and you have to get a spotty assistant to unlock it for you.

RustyDefender said:

Heater box, this was the old one!

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I like your avatar, is it a 3 year old Freelander?

Wimblowdriver said:

Two bobbins building a nest in me back garding, in a tree stump which is covered in ivy.

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Nesting is full on in our garden. Tits, blackbirds, Robins etc.
So I guess we will be doing not much pruning.

Wimblowdriver said:

I gotted one of them from Half's, with a breaker bar. Keep it in me tratter, for wheel nuts. Half's best type, can't remember what they call it but they keep their best stuff in a locked display case and you have to get a spotty assistant to unlock it for you.

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I'll have a dig around in me garridge to see what I can find, but they aren't expensive from Halfs. I think the range you mean is their "expert" and yep they are good with a lifetime guarantee. ("Spotty youths not included"!)
I bought some ratchet, flexible ring/ open ended spanners of this range when they had a special. Comes with two lickle converters one for a 10mm and another for a 13mm, to enable them to be used with sockets as well. All on a "handy" black plastic rack which of course I keep in a drawer.
Prefer the rigid ones, tbh, as the flexis have a tendency to flex when you don't want them to, but once I started using decent, slim, ratchet spanners I think it stopped me always reaching for the socket set. They do need to be oiled though.

Wimblowdriver said:

I like your avatar, is it a 3 year old Freelander?

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It’s a 6 month old new “defender”

derwendolly said:

You do realise that Frontline and others of this type are a poison? Once you apply it to the animal's skin it is absorbed into the animal's bloodstream and then any biting 'visitors' injest that poison and die! By giving your cat two doses of Frontline you have doubled the required dose - ie. you have given the cat an over-dose of poison!

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Yes, it was a calculated risk. She had a dose over a week ago and yet was still showing all the symptoms and behaviours of being infested. THat first dose was from a very old batch and we were not sure how potent it might still be. Hence the new purchase of Frontline and the re-dose this week. I have had her on my la this morning for some considerable while and found at least one flea that was visiting the corner of her mouth, I managed to get it (possibly it wasn't 100% fit at this stage). She's a subdued baby, but I will do my best to keep her safe. The only problem is the "other cats" which are pretty Feral. We have managed to dose one of them, but the other is a bit of a terror. We will do our best.

Lad in work today came in at tea time & said to the yard owner sorry I wasnt in yesterday, I took a Viagra tab & it didnt
work so he took another one then when he got up for work his hardness wouldnt go away plus he had to get the bus
to work.

I bought something today

kevstar said:

Lad in work today came in at tea time & said to the yard owner sorry I wasnt in yesterday, I took a Viagra tab & it didnt
work so he took another one then when he got up for work his hardness wouldnt go away plus he had to get the bus
to work.

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If this is serious, then he has serious problems.

You say "Lad", how old is this lad, cos if he is any younger than about 60 then wtf is he doing taking them?

Truuuuly do not understand. Maybe I am lucky in that respect!

And as for taking the bus, all he had to do was carry a bag in front of him.

My ma when doctoring had to deal with a bloke who had his p**** stuck in a milk bottle. He too had to go the hospital on the bus. She asked him how he managed it, he just said that he put it in a bag and "carried" it on!!!

kevstar said:

I bought something today

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What!!!!!????? With money???????

I should have a lie down until you feel better.

We are in the process of changing house insurance policies in Frogland.

What a palaver!!

It has now got to the point where we have to sign umpteen documents and being French they have to be sigend at the foot of each page, by both of us.

They are in PDF format and I have found a way of "signing" them. In fact three ways, but none are satisfactory,
If I try to draw my signature it looks as if it was done by a drunken monkey,
If I type it, only one of the fonts looks remotely like mine and none look like W's. (Being a bit fussy here, I know.)
Only other choice is to scan a signature for both of us and load that but I bet I'll get the size all wrong.

Hey ho!

Stanleysteamer said:

We are in the process of changing house insurance policies in Frogland.

What a palaver!!

It has now got to the point where we have to sign umpteen documents and being French they have to be sigend at the foot of each page, by both of us.

They are in PDF format and I have found a way of "signing" them. In fact three ways, but none are satisfactory,
If I try to draw my signature it looks as if it was done by a drunken monkey,
If I type it, only one of the fonts looks remotely like mine and none look like W's. (Being a bit fussy here, I know.)
Only other choice is to scan a signature for both of us and load that but I bet I'll get the size all wrong.

Hey ho!

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Why not print it, sign it, scan it back in?

Our letting agents use Doc U sign its great.

J

kevstar said:

Lad in work today came in at tea time & said to the yard owner sorry I wasnt in yesterday, I took a Viagra tab & it didnt
work so he took another one then when he got up for work his hardness wouldnt go away plus he had to get the bus
to work.

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You must admit it was an imaginative reason for him not turning into work.

....'smee again (no not the bosun from Peter Pan)...
You know I said I was such a sad sack that I went and cleaned up thet 3-jaw chuck yesterday?
Well here it is sat next to its bigger brother the 4-Jaw chuck. I hope you can see the difference in appearance of the metal bodies.

DanClarke said:

....'smee again (no not the bosun from Peter Pan)...
You know I said I was such a sad sack that I went and cleaned up thet 3-jaw chuck yesterday?
Well here it is sat next to its bigger brother the 4-Jaw chuck. I hope you can see the difference in appearance of the metal bodies.

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I had to look hard but eventually I could see it.

DanClarke said:

....'smee again (no not the bosun from Peter Pan)...
You know I said I was such a sad sack that I went and cleaned up thet 3-jaw chuck yesterday?
Well here it is sat next to its bigger brother the 4-Jaw chuck. I hope you can see the difference in appearance of the metal bodies.

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1 across is Black Velvet
6 down Tear ones hair out.

Oh sorry
Nice chuck aswell.

J

kevstar said:

he got up for work his hardness wouldnt go away plus he had to get the bus
to work.

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Standing room only on the bus

kevstar said:

I bought something today

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I think somebody has hacked into your account