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I think that you should have added 'if needed' at the end. They are constantly monitoring the effectiveness of the current vaccines against any known/emerging variants, and only change/modify their vaccine if necessary.

Have you seen any of the YouTube vids about 'entitled people'?

Not forgetting - Jumbo Shrimp Fun Run and my personal favourite- Microsoft Works

Apart from the time taken for the combi to wake up and start heating the water, therefore wasting a lot of water first, if you use a lot of hot water, your radiators go cold! That's why I got rid of my combi and went back to a system boiler and an unvented cylinder, the bonus of that is when the boiler is being serviced/doesn't work/middle of summer/etc. I've still got hot water via the immersion.

Also, check that the switch blade hasn't just moved slightly, and can be pushed back into the 'rail joiner' near the frog/common crossing vee.

They seem to have glossed over the fact that one of the biggest causes of rain-forest de-forestation is Palm oil growing!

I'd never considered the possibility of it being mounted on twin, miniature, Aberdares before!

Personally, I'm not really interested in your bedroom preferences!

Which are kept on the shelf that I put up with sky-hooks, set high enough, so that I could store my skirting board ladders underneath.

Small world, our first property was a top floor maisonette in Osterley Close, and one of my school mates (whom I still see*) was the only guy for a long time, who could work the machine making Airbus wings. *in 'normal' times, last time we met was at a Dr. Feelgood gig in Bedford, 2019.

Carnation still make the best!

I'm afraid I can't remember, sorry! We bought our kitchen from Homebase, at the time my wife worked for Argos (same group) so we got a decent discount (30%!). I do remember that it was a good brand, and was over £150, and that was 15 years ago! Blanco is a good make, you won't go far wrong with their products.

Although I never had a problem, and yes it probably improved my immune system, my mother did eventually stop me eating raw liver!

Wouldn't touch a ceramic sink, too easily chipped, I've replaced quite a few for customers that have got cracked (dropping pans etc) Also, don't get the decent composite ones confused with the cheaper plastic versions, they do stain, they also tend to crack around the waste hole.

I fitted a Composite kitchen sink about 15 years ago, when I did my kitchen, it still cleans up like new, no scratches, no burn marks, no chips, very impressed. Wouldn't go back to stainless now!

I'm amazed, and disheartened, by this unnecessary obsession with hygiene. There was an article in one of the daily rags that I read (the day of the tube bombings, as I recall) that pointed out that the gut immune system of an your typical construction industry worker was 10 times more efficient than that of a typical office worker. It went on to explain that it was because you tended to ingest some dirt at work, in amounts that your natural defences could learn how to cope with. Whereas, in an office situation, the excessive cleaning regime meant your immune system was isolated from reality, so when it did encounter some iffy bugs, it either didn't know what to do, or it over-reacted, meaning you became more ill than you would have done otherwise. Lets be honest, when was the last time you watched a builder really scrub his hands to eat his lunch, more likely he'll just wipe his hands on a clean bit of his T-shirt! And before anyone starts wittering on about this, I'm currently a plumber (20+ years), have done general building, shopfitting, loft conversions, ran a car repair workshop and started my working life as an engineer. I've not had a day off sick since 1985!

Clouds! Looks more like a sea fret, rolling up the river from the harbour!

But hopefully better than nothing, and (fingers crossed) with few side effects/problems.

But it also depends from where you are looking, unfortunately, when we observe our models/layouts we have the effect of looking from a hot air balloon, far higher than we are used to. If we are trying to recreate a 'normal' viewing point, we have to consider that most of us wouldn't usually get higher than an upstairs window, (some exceptions being roofers, and owners of larger 'posh' houses), certainly for villages. It's a different set of parameters in towns, with office blocks etc.

I think that removal of all the backscene will enhance the overall look of Little Muddle, if you are in any village on even a slight hill, you only ever see sky behind any buildings, plus a few trees, just my thoughts on the subject.

I only enter the forum via 'View New Content', and by ignoring all the threads that don't interest, or bore, me, it saves a lot of time scrolling down/loading more activity. Life is too short!

You missed the ugly ones, Q1

Well I found that 'certain kind of tedium' yesterday, and re-ignored Football Focus!

What I've done with a number of my older customers, and those that struggle with that kind of system, is to set the clock 30 minutes out, ie half-way between GMT and BST. You don't need the clock to be that accurate, and you hardly notice if the heating is coming on slightly later or earlier, the heating timing is irrelevant, so long as you have hot water!