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  1. I've had that sometimes with second hand books. Open them up and it's like opening an ashtray. I'm lucky in that I have a spare room that is both cool and airy to place them for a couple of weeks for the smell to evaporate.
  2. All root vegetables contain sugar, after all most of our sugar comes from sugar beet.
  3. I pass your way a couple of times a month, can you give directions please? (To the cake shop.)
  4. I've turned mine off and now I only get the national travel news on radio 2. The reason I turned it off is that where I live three local radio stations overlap, Essex, London and Kent and I could get any one of them. The only one relevant to me is Essex as I very rarely travel all that far from home.
  5. They can't change the law retrospectively but any such cars might be difficult to sell. Any construction and use regulations will only apply to vehicles registered after the C&U regulations came into force.
  6. My car is sixteen years old and has many features (it started out as a dealers demonstration model and is loaded with all the extras. Some I do like such as the automatic headlights but the automatic wipers I don't use. I also like the radio controls on the steering wheel, I have the volume low and only turn it up for the traffic news. It still has analogue instruments, the only digital item is the milometer/tripmeter.
  7. My dad told me of his cousins who in the 1930's lived in a tenement in South London where several families had to share an outside WC. One of their neighbours was the local bully who would occupy the privy every Sunday morning with his copy of the Sporting Life and a packet of five Capstan Full Strength which he would smoke while checking his bets on the horses. If anyone was occupying the privy he would throw them out irrespective of age or gender. So my dads cousins and a few of their mates decided to do something about it and someone suggested dropping a *carbide tablet into the pan before he entered the privy. Come Sunday morning instead of putting one tablet into the pan they put a handful and then hid and watched their victim enter the privy. after about ten minutes there was an explosion that almost demolished the privy. The bully was found laying face down in front of what was left of the privy with a scorched and blackened backside. *Carbide tablets were used to produce acetylene gas used up until after the war for vehicle and bicycle lamps. When dropped into water they gave of the gas.
  8. I have a lot of similar pieces* in various drawers and boxes, problem is which drawers and boxes are they in? As I'm unlikely to use them it might be a good idea to sell them on. * Things such as Scale Link etches which have only been partly used and spare 'alternative' bits from plastic building kits etc. All are in 4mm (00) scale.
  9. The N scale layouts appear to be complete but the 00 one appears to be only a single baseboard from a larger layout.
  10. Doesn't say what scale it is, at first I thought N scale but it might be 00.
  11. What Underground station are you? https://www.mylondon.news/news/transport/answer-11-questions-well-tell-28772896?utm_source=my_london_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MyLondon+-+London+Underground+Newsletter_newsletter&utm_content=&utm_term=&ruid=a32cb9a3-ed92-4daf-845e-5ef2f6965bea I'm Oxford Circus.
  12. I've just tried this out. https://www.bing.com/images/create? Where you can create AI images. I've tried it out and come up with these.
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