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Hi all, Given that Virgin have started randomly blocking email accounts without any warning [ask me how i know] what are you all using for emails?? I want something that will work with thunderbird as that is what i am set up with and it would be trully horrendous to try to change. What do you...

Hi All, Just found this. A proper sub that can go anywhere, even to the seabed in the deepest part of ANY ocean, AND, it is all properly certified.. Not saying i would go on it out of choice, but it makes going to the titanic like stepping in a puddle...

Trading standards, at least where i live are a total waste of time. They WILL creep around car boot sales, but if they think you have more money than them and can afford to sue them, then they will leave you well alone.. Many years ago i got car insurance in instalments. In the insurance place...

Hi All, Posting this as it may help some of you advise some of your customers.. PREPAYMENT ENERGY METERS, ARE YOU DUE COMPENSATION? Energy suppliers were told by Ofgem last week to pay compensation to customers wrongly forced to have prepayment meters. To get a warrant to force fit...

Hi all, Any idea what thus is and how it works?? Is is in series with a LONG defunct outside light.. Presumably it controls it?? Thing is, how does the "auto" bit work when it is inside the building and the light is outside?? john..

Hi All, Asking for a friend!! My friend bought a house with them solar panels on it. [She does not like them and wishes they were not there] Anyway, it rained rather a lot yesterday and all water leaked in.. They had an investigate, and it seems that when the panels were installed, the...

Ok, as a member of NHS staff, i can have the vaccine this sunday if i want... What would you all do?? Yes or no?? Do not like needles, but being intubated woudl not be much fun either. But then there are potential unknown side effects.. If you had the chance, would you all have it [only gives...

Hi all, i am thinking of buying a trailer for about 2 grand. The seller wants bank transfer as payment. How do i make sure that i do not do the bank transfer only for them to drive off with the thing and me having no means of getting the money back?? How do you all pay for expensive things...

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Nothing at all to do with electricity, but check this out!! Wait till they really get going about halfway through... God knows what people in the car park thought!!

Hi All, What you make of this..?? Where i work in the hospital we have a area in the kitchen with various 13A sockets to power trolleys for keeping the food warm. They are all powered from a three phase DB, with each of the three circuits on a different phase with a separate rcbo for each...

If you were offered a corona virus antibody test, would you have one, bearing in mind it means having a needle stuck in you?? [NOT good....] john..

Hi all.. Doing a little favour for the people next door. They want a 32a supply to their shed and hot tub. I am busy splitting the tails with a henley block and have installed a separate CU to feed the shed. Now, the existing tails exit the bottom of the meter, turn sharp right [installer...

Hi All, All of a sudden, when i buy something on ebay, it manages to automatically log into paypal. I certainly did not enable this. It did it once before, but now i have no idea how to prevent this as they make it next to impossible.. Anyone know how to stop the bastard thing logging itself...

Anyone else had a weird illness?? About a week and a half ago, if not more, i felt well ill one day. No headache, just wobbly and ill.. Felt much better the next day but now had a little bit of a sore throat, only a tiny bit of one though.. I was at the hospital and all of a sudden i had a bit...

Read this **** you could not make it up.. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ms-apologises-trans-shopper-after-21541569 john..

Hi All, Ok, so i have got an ASUS desktop computer, It is about 4 years old i suppose?? Anyway, i want to add a second internal hard disc so that i can do backups without messing around with bits of wire and external drives.. I went out and bought a nice new Toshiba HD, but when i go to fit...

Have a read of this!! Becoming a self-employed builder step-by-step Self-employed builder salary UK Not sure how much self-employed builders earn in the UK? The average hourly wage in 2017 for a self-employed builder was between £120 and £200, depending on experience and specialism. This...

Has anyone tried 19 strand flexible meter tails?? What did you think?? john..

Hi All, People next door want to install a power supply to their large wooden concrete floored shed and a hot tub in the garden too. They want me to give them a hand.. House is on TNS so i will assume a Ze of 0.8 ohms and the cable run is 25 metres.. clipped direct or run in ground.. The hot...