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Morning All, We had a really bad experience last night. Our 10 week old Patterdale pups - dog and puppy went for it BIG style last night. Each locked their teeth into each other and NO persuasion would get them apart. The hose pipe on full and a subsequent drenching proved futile. Both my wife...

.....to build a garden shed using ONLY marine ply? Odd question you may ask, but I've got the chance to get a shed load (excuse the pun) of 8 x 4 plywood sheets - gratis,from a job site at work. Would lamination prove suitable for the frame etc? It WOULD prove a challenge, but I'm always up...

Evenin all, As the title says, we're stuck on a few clues for a Christmas quiz! All the answers are British place names, including a few from God's own county.....Cumbria :wink: We would appreciate any assistance on the following! 1) Doesn't follow 2) Zero prohibition 3) Rain, hail & shine -...

Evenin' all - I've been asked to make some rustic b&b doors for an outside privvy, and coal house. When I say rustic, I mean rustic. The customer in question wants to use tanalised fence rails as boards - 4' wide, so my questions are.... a) Can I get away with biscuit jointing them and add the...

Morning all - If anyone uses an HTC Desire, could you please tell me how to disable the bloomin' airplane mode. :twisted: And before you say..."hold down the power button etc,etc" :wink: .... it ain't as simple as that, as every time I wake my phone up, the blasted airplane mode comes back...

Evening ladies and gents. We're after a new broadband/phone/tv package and would appreciate your input and experiences?? We currently have phone/broadband package with TalkTalk, which is, how should I put it?..................utter, S H one T. The signal is forever dropping out and their...

As the title says........WHY do people not use their headlights in accordance with the weather conditions :twisted: Driving to work this morning, -4, quite dark and freezing fog (visibility less than 10m) and STILL, people were driving with only sidelights and no fogs, or even (in more cases...

Has anyone had this problem? i.e.since I got one of those God forsaken Windows updates, my volume control on my laptop has disappeared and it's driving me to distraction :twisted: . Device manager says "No audio devices are installed". I can't restore at the mo as I haven't got enough free...

..............wooden, L shaped beading/edging please.........I'm having a brain drain and trying to price some up on the B&Poo website and I can't find it!! :oops: Yours in festive numptiness Mark PS - And NO answers saying "L shaped edging/beading" please!! :wink:

May I apologise in advance for what will be a downbeat thread........... I'm trying to face my demons and not be an ostrich by seeking advice from who, to all intense and purposes, are strangers, but who nonetheless offer sound and genuine advice... Tess's Tale Tess was rescued from a...

Evenin' All - Does anyone have one of these little beauties.(speaker that is)...? If so, can someone spare my sanity and tell me how to charge the bl**dy thing!!! :evil: If you take a deek at the picture, it has a mini USB port that you plug in via a lead (normal USB) into a laptop/PC to...

Sadly, as much as I like woodworking, I'm not in the same league as many of you good folks when it comes to organisation and tidiness. :oops: In addition, my "workshop" was coming to the end of it's functional life due to rot in the window frames and the fragility of the corrugated plastic...

As per the thread title, my laptop is being a naughty little perisher and won't go to sleep :evil: As it sounds like a 747 at take off even when idle (another problem!) I often put it to sleep, but the little tinker just nods off for a wee while then springs back to life ready for more...

I first got the news via e-mail whilst at work and naively said to my wife it would be a prankster with a toy gun......little did I know. Strangely enough, during one of my lectures last week, I mentioned the very low rate of violence in Cumbria, let alone murder. It truly is surreal - I know...

Hello all - are there any htc desire phone users gadding about?? I can't sync my phone with my pc despite downloading the sync driver :roll: Am I not doing something right? I presumed it would simply be "plug & play" but no joy. Thanks all Mark

Evenin' all - I hope I get my query about hanging ledge & brace doors right! :oops: Q - How easy (or hard) is it to retro fit these doors in existing frames? I know it's a simple answer if the new and old doors are the same width....but guess what!? The old frames have rebated door stops so...

Check out the video to see the quality from the teeny weeny camera - only 9 quid from Fleabay apparantly, plus a few quid for a memory card !! :shock: :shock: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuzhRMcrt6o Mark :D

Could anyone please recommend a good pair of USB speakers for a laptop? Not an awful lot of info on t'interweb. Thank you Mark :D

My Toshiba Sat Pro charger/power supply has bit the dust, so my 3 questions are: i) is it repairable? ii) will any "off the shelf" replacement do? iii) and if not, will I have to pay 8 squidillion quid for a new Toshiba one? :shock: Many Thanks Mark :D

We have a large flat roofed kitchen extension, approx 12' x 8' and would like more light flooding in from above....what options would you good people take? And how easy/hard a DIY job would it be? Thanks all Mark :D