These are what they look like.
Cheap enough if you can find the right size ones but I'm a fixer and would rather have the beer chits.
Posts by Heero Yuy
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Went to open the fanlight in the kitchen and the hinge on one side fell to bits and jammed it. Eventually forced it open and unscrewed the hinges from the frame. A plasic slider that has a friction screw had split. Same thing happenend the other side a few years ago so the same fix: A pice of metal that fitted in the slide guide, drilled and then screwed with small locking screws to replace the rivets. There's enough sticktion in the pivots that the slider friction screw isn't needed.
Lubricated and then refitted, not perfect but at least it opens and closes now.
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Phew it's pretty hot even here, a shade under 28C. That's in deep shade on the north facing side of the house.
Spent the morning fixing that window. Just the day to be hacksawing bits of metal and drilling out rivets, not.
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Boris Johnson has been elected new Conservative leader in a ballot of party members and will become the next UK prime minister.
He beat Jeremy Hunt comfortably, winning 92,153 votes to his rival's 46,656.
The former London mayor takes over from Theresa May on Wednesday.
In his victory speech, Mr Johnson promised he would "deliver Brexit, unite the country and defeat Jeremy Corbyn".
Speaking at the Queen Elizabeth II centre in London, he said: "We are going to energise the country.
"We are going to get Brexit done on 31 October and take advantage of all the opportunities it will bring with a new spirit of can do.
"We are once again going to believe in ourselves, and like some slumbering giant we are going to rise and ping off the guy ropes of self doubt and negativity."
More importantly he has an almost 2/3 majority which will give him the authority to face down his detractors.
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Hordes of flying ants this morning. Just put some recyclables out and the ant nests in the side lawn are seething. Not surprising as it's very calm at the moment and getting warm.
A couple of weeks ago it happened and the swarms were dense enough to appear on the rain radar. Looks like it's happening again as there's "rain" over Southampton but no clouds on the satellite picture.
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Pleasant 20C at the moment but there's no wind at all so it could be hot here until the sea breeeze kicks in this afternoon.
Went to open the fanlight in the kitchen and the hinge has disintigrated. Something more that needs fixing.
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Congratulations to Jo.
So Labour are the only mainstream party to never elect a female leader. So much for the anti semitic, racist, marxist, anti feminist party.
Who really votes for this shower?
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You really need to decamp to the coast as soon as possible. Very pleasant 22C outside and 24C inside. Don't think we'll need the aircon tonight but it's ready for later this week.
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Snails are being “milked” for their slime in Thailand so it can be included in beauty products sold in the UK and US.
Their slimy secretions are thought to stave off signs of ageing as well as giving skin a “glowing” quality.
As a result a raft of new snail farms have sprung up in the Far Eastern country as demand for the slippery shell-dwellers “mucin” rises.
Over the last three years, farmers and entrepreneurial locals have begun keeping the snails that were once regarded as a plague on the crops.
Snail slime has become worth more than gold with a snail mucin face mask costing upwards of £240.
Altogether the global slime industry is worth an estimated £251 million.
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If they resign it saves Boris from having to give them the sack. He can concentrate on getting the right team assembled to deliver on Brexit.
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Posts moved to correct thread.
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We have a thread here for general Iran revival. Please confine that discussion there. I shall consider moving the last few posts to that thread in due course once I get the sleep out of my eyes.
Now back to the topic of this thread. Thank you.
[Edit] Off topic posts moved to thread shown above.
Thread tidied.
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Looks like we got our british oil tanker.
He who plays with fire will get his hands burnt.
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I too bought into the housing market when property was still reasonably affordable. I now own my place outright and also having inherited I don't have to work that hard. I do things to keep my hand in as it were.
It does seem unfair in a mixed development to have recreation areas that are for the exclusive use of the privately owned properties. A sort of income apartheid.
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The leaves are peppery delicious on crackers or fresh bread.
Dandelion leaves are also edible and a kind of poor man's rocket. Wash first though.
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THE BBC could end up becoming a Netflix-style subscription service, the Beeb's top boss has admitted.
Director-general Tony Hall accepted that in the future, the licence fee could be abolished and replaced with a voluntary payment.
That would mean only those who choose to pay up would have access to the Beeb's programmes.
Speaking to a Commons committee yesterday, Lord Hall said: "You could decide the BBC is a subscription service.
"It would be very, very different to the sort of BBC you have now, because you would be giving subscribers what they want, not the breadth of the population."
A breath of fresh air compaired to the usual BBC nonsense.
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Of course some people can only aspire to owning an Apple product:
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My redtop reports:
BritBox subscribers don't need a licence fee to watch BritBox specifically, the BBC has confirmed to The SunI'm sure it'll only be a matter of time just like iPlayer.
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Sometimes those TLA's are a bum steer.
By the Cyrillic lettering on the shop front it looks like either greece or Russia so they probably don't know the word.
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You'll no doubt need to pay the BBC tax if you subscribe adding another £12.80 a month if you've only been using "free" services up to now. Not so much of a bargain for a "me too" service.
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Rain radar shows a big area of heavy rain heading your way. Peak intensity of over an inch an hour. We had some light drizzle earlier but now there's a heavy patch heading our way to.
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it's time our scumbag politicians were held to account for their lies and dishonesty.
It aught to happen but then just about every MP would be in the dock together with the BBC.
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DOCSIS 3.1 opens up the possibility of operating at higher frequencies if the VM network is improved enough to allow it. A wider range of VHF frequencies for upstream DOCSIS channels could effectively cross the (currently) protected FM range of frequencies, pushing the broadcast and downstream DOCSIS channels onto higher frequencies.
I still have the old diplexer/isolator in circuit with the VHF port terminated. If they start to use these frequencies I'll need to replace it with a standard isolator. Probably a good thing to do anyway.
Must be quite a few out there from the legacy days when NTL used to output the VHF radio stations on analog. It was part of the install when our area was first cabled up together with the Jerrold impulse STB.
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A joke very much of these times.
I wonder how many of those getting supplies from food banks turn their noses up?
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Very good. Now try this one:
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We're getting drizzle at the moment but it's barely wetting the ground. Forecast is for something a bit more substantial Friday evening but then it turns hot
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Everyone should be allowed to travel on one ticket.
When I was car-less and traveled down to Cornwall regularly you couldn't get a single ticket for down and return legs. There was always a split and you had to jiggle with its position to get the best price. Here the on-line rail journey planners were a godsend.
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only time will tell what VM has in mind.
Could this be preparation for the move to DOCSIS 3.1 and gigabit broadband?