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Jerra

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  1. 3 minutes ago, nb Innisfree said:

    You're allowed to use veg oil in your car if it's less than 2,500 lts per year. 

    Quote:

    "If you have produced less than 2,500 litres in the last 12 months, or if you expect to produce less than this amount in the next 12 months, you may be an exempt producer.

    If you’re an exempt producer you only need to keep production records (read step 3 in the list of steps), find out more in paragraph 4.2.1."

    https://www.gov.uk/guidance/biofuels-and-other-fuel-substitutes-excise-notice-179e-from-1-april-2022#biofuel-producers-obligations

    I have been trying to find that rather than rely on my memory of the days I used to make my own biodiesel.

  2. 54 minutes ago, IanD said:

     

    I'd have thought that just because you allow members of the public to park there overnight doesn't make it a public car park, any more than all the other (privately-owned) places people can park overnight -- including the drive in front of your own house, if there's space and you let them. But maybe it is something to do with *their* car insurance, not anyone else's.

     

    I suppose whoever visits the pub next could ask them, they were very friendly when I talked to them about all the other issues of running an isolated country pub... 😉

    Perhaps it is to do with the insurance of the property/business, underwriters might consider a vehicle that nobody knows the owner/origin is more likely to be a "neer do well" than one that the proprietors have Oked.

  3. 2 hours ago, doratheexplorer said:

    If by 'most' you mean about 60/40 in favour, then I'd agree.  But in my experience, quite a lot of pubs say no.  I remember Olive's daughter (Elaine?) at the Anchor, High Offley being very firm about this, despite having loads of space and nowhere else nearby to park.

    Perhaps in places where there is nowhere else to park publicans have found out by bitter experience that if they allow parking it becomes a problem for them.

  4. 1 hour ago, BilgePump said:

    I can think of at least three people over the years who passed away enjoying themselves on the water, right to the end. They just didn't know it was the last day. All late 70s to 80s, sudden, natural causes, when they were out on their boats. One sailing in the Irish sea, one at anchor fishing in the med and one just at anchor for the night on the river here. Always seems a better way to go than many others.

    Our mate died with us on the boat two years come 29th April.  He was a mere boy of 72.

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  5. 1 hour ago, David Mack said:

     

    Yes I know that. But since the pandemic many of us have become used to paying by card for everything and not carrying cash. Our local Asda did away with the coins during covid. On my first visit to the store after they reinstated them I had no cash whatsoever. When I asked the man at the door how I could do my shopping he had no answer. Result was that Sainsburys (who don't require £1) got my business. It just seems illogical for the stores to insist you must have cash to use a trolley while at the same time strongly discouraging it's use once you are inside the store.

    Sainsbury's is the store I mentioned where you do require a coin here.   Do they have inside storage for the trollies or is your area just very law abiding?

  6. 9 hours ago, MtB said:

     

    Its a bit like boaters who spend nine months on the 48hr VMs here. Think that somehow they are shafting CRT.

     

    In actual fact they are missing out on 8 months and 28 days of enjoyable boating! 

    The only ones they are shafting are other boaters who would like to use the space they are taking up.

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  7. 10 minutes ago, David Mack said:

    Why is it that the supermarkets are now full of card-only self-service tills, but still insist you must have £1 coin (or 2 20ps) to use a trolley?

    In our area it is because the trollies are left out overnight and they don't want to have to collect them from all over the place after the local youth have had their fun.

     

    I am sure if there was a canal nearby many would end up there.

  8. 59 minutes ago, doratheexplorer said:

    Is it?  It used to be the Europe was your oyster.  Not any more.

    British citizens find their passports and then themselves welcome in most parts of the world.  If you want to work in a country I think if we could find the statistics UK passport holders find it easier than third world passport holders.

  9. 11 minutes ago, IanD said:

    And because by far the most common second language in many places abroad is English, and it's the international language of trade and business.

    Also I can't offer anything other than opinion but spend 5 or 6 years in the UK become a citizen and then the world is your oyster.

  10. 12 hours ago, MtB said:

     

    I think you need to get some perspective Arthur. Of all the third world countries out there, why are so many third world citizens so keen and determined to come and live here? It makes no sense if the UK is as shite as you like to make out. 

    Because we are at the top end of the third world list?   An improvement on what they have?

  11. 56 minutes ago, Peugeot 106 said:

    I’m again surprised at the number of people with expensive binoculars who don’t realise the lens’s can and should be focussed independently. They may as well have a cheapo  pair properly focused as one lens will probably not be focussed properly depending on their eyesight.

    As you say depends on eyesight with the same vision in both eyes as many young people have no need to focus each eye piece.

     

    Glasses also come into things.  The last pair I bought the first question the dealer asked was "with or without glasses".  I said with but wanted to know about which method of eye focusing for if I allowed the family to use them.   His first reply was that depends on your optician if he is doing his job properly you won't need to.

  12. 12 hours ago, DandV said:

    There is no one size fits best.

    Whilst the bulk of absolute  housing need, no spare bedrooms, is for one or two bedroom units, there is also a requirement for multi bedroom properties, even five and six bedrooms,  for those who choose to live in multigenerational family arrangements,

    Not the norm in those of us with  Anglo Saxon heritage, but not uncommon for those with different heritages. 

    Here, particularly for our maori and pacifika peoples but increasingly those with Asian heritage.  

    The point I am trying to make is there are plenty of houses being built that fit the multi person/bedroom requirement.  I have never suggested there shouldn't be.

     

    However, the housing problem that seems (at least in my experience) to be greatest is the smaller, cheaper "starter homes".  To a certain extent the niche filled by council housing.  Council hpuses had sensible affordable rents that allowed people to save and move on.  Taht is until they were stupidly removed for political dogma.

     

    Now IMO the need is for small cheaper (I dislike the term affordable housing as all houses are affordable to somebody) houses young people just starting out can afford.

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  13. 3 hours ago, Arthur Marshall said:

    Neither approve or disapprove ... my attitudes to landlords rather depends on how they treat their clients. Some, as we know, are appalling, some are great, some just do the job they are meant to. Rental property is essential and landlords who treat it as a business have to make a living, which means reasonable profits. Nowt wrong with that.

    I lived in various rented places for thirty years and never had a problem. And, for a couple of years, was a landlord myself. Never had the money or the desire to do it permanently.

    I agree.   Somehow modern society has moved to a situation where you think you must be able to afford and buy a property.   Wonderful if you can, however when I was young renting was the norm, three quarters of the village was council housing.  Only the well off owned or had aspirations to own a house.

    A certain female prime minister destroyed the rental stock and gave everybody aspirations that many had/have no chance of fulfilling.

     

  14. 5 minutes ago, Tracy D'arth said:

    Maybe a bit optimistic there I think. Bet it doesnt clean as well as a woman with a Hoover.

    That has nothing to do with keeping up with charging the batteries.  In fact, it also seems a little sexist I and many men I know do the vacuuming.  I do it as I do a better job than Mrs J.

  15. 19 hours ago, Tracy D'arth said:

    If they charge themselves buy 10 and have a self charging boat.

    Seriously, you would not keep up with charging the batteries.  If you are on a shore line then OK but overkill.

    This made me wonder as I have no experience of these things.  So I googled and found:

     

    A traditional, standard vacuum uses around 1.4kWh of power per hour; the humble robot charges on about 60-90 watts (over three hours), with one charge fuelling roughly an hour of cleaning. 

  16. 3 minutes ago, MtB said:

     

    I would suggest the occupation density of large detached homes is not that much lower than that  of one bedroom starter homes. 

     

    When I owned a decent-sized four-bed, a family of six of us lived in it. Would you have our family split up and living in three or four one bed starter homes? 

    The point is there is no shortage of large houses for those who can afford them, what is needed are houses within the price range of people looking to start on the property ladder.   Most are single or young couples.  I suspect you would have a long search for a family of 6 still living with parents as they haven't been able to start on the property ladder.

     

    Large detached houses do not solve the housing crisis for those who most need houses.

     

     

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  17. 2 hours ago, MtB said:

    I blame the ever-expanding population Vs. the near-zero building rate of new homes.

    I would suggest not the near zero rate of building new homes but the near zero rate of building homes of the right type.

     

    Everywhere I go Ii see masses of new houses being built, however, they are mainly large detached expensive homes.

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