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Have you ever seen or spoken to the business damager? I had the misfortune to bank with NaffWest in the 1980s (They were the bank that claimed to start more small businesses than any other bank. Absolute bowlarks - more like close more small businesses). I never saw the claimed-to-be-pro-active...

Barx, you can find out about types and sources of local honeys from the British Bee Keepers Association, which has literally hundreds of branches throughout the UK. Contact your local branch; here's a link to the list on the BBKA website...

Hmmmmmm....... good point AndyC.

BBC News (Look North, Yorkshire) has announced that the Government will be making grants available to Sheffield Council for

Interesting BBC article, AndyC, thanks for the link. Having read the article, I have questions and commments......... 1. Improvements are to be made to roads linking Tanzania with South Africa (a distance of a couple of thousand miles) so that Tanzania has better access to SA's ports? :| ...

OK, so I live in West Yorkshire, near a place called Slack...... higher up the valley the area is known as Slack Top, and lower down the valley it is known as Slack Bottom. Typing Slack Bottom into Google returned this website with several other rude names...

In Brisbane, Australia, there is a restaurant called Ming Inn. :|

When living / working in Zimbabwe a number of years ago, I did a security lighting system at home where 5 PIRs were wired in parallel to control 6 fluorescent lights around the outside of the house. PIR live, neutral and switched live terminals were parallelled and fed to a contactor that did...

Several good points have been made here. Spending a fortune on a tool used twice a year is a waste. Personally, I am more impressed with a workman who has the right type of tools for the job and who can use the tools well, rather than one who has the right brand of tools. (Apache's example of...

Communication with the customer is also important: let them know what will be worked on, what will be switched off, the reason and an estimate of how long, where you will be working, places that the customer and other people on the site cannot have access to. There is no accounting for the thick...

Further to this, British workers have been savvy to the problem for a long time...... it's our uninspiring "leaders" in Westminster that have been sleeping on the job for far too long and are unaware, or possibly choose to be unaware, of the problem. Pyro.

A buddy of mine works in IT for a large insurance company. He has an acronym for non-too-bright users: POBKAC - problem originates between keyboard and chair.

They work on live circuits only. As well as the fuse/MCB at the DB, you can also use the detector at other outlets to determine which are on the same circuit as the one you are testing. Depending on how deep the circuit cabling is buried in the wall, you can also use the detector to trace the...

I've had the Martindale for about 6 years and have found it very useful. Pyro.

Like you , I do wonder about the building inspectors...... "The client was never on site" or something similar was the response as to why they did nothing about querying (or stopping) the project. A lame excuse. No phone number(s) available for the client? Inability to write / type / post / fax...

Thanks, Guys! Blushing Electronics was always my first "love", with sparking not far behind. A hot soldering iron + skin is a pretty bad experience, but a hot soldering iron + fingernails takes some beating on the smell and pain. Another Edgeware Road shop that sprung to mind is Henry's...

RS have trade counters in East & West London. RS, Farnell, CPC and Rapid Electronics are good for mail-order. They are noted in order of decreasing price! Cricklewood Electronics is pretty good. For real walk-in shops with real components, Edgeware Road area is better than TCR. The best...

Imagine receiving such a letter from a business/tradesman seeking work...... It will grab the attention, but in a sure-fire way that's guaranteed to lose a potential customer and ensure that they will not use you now or in the future! It will look seriously unprofessional. If you are going to...

Ext15, that is one seriously cool avatar!! Nice work -X- Applaud Smiley