• Hi all and welcome to TheWoodHaven2 brought into the 21st Century, kicking and screaming! We all have Alasdair to thank for the vast bulk of the heavy lifting to get us here, no more so than me because he's taken away a huge burden of responsibility from my shoulders and brought us to this new shiny home, with all your previous content (hopefully) still intact! Please peruse and feed back. There is still plenty to do, like changing the colour scheme, adding the banner graphic, tweaking the odd setting here and there so I have added a new thread in the 'Technical Issues, Bugs and Feature Requests' forum for you to add any issues you find, any missing settings or just anything you'd like to see added/removed from the feature set that Xenforo offers. We will get to everything over the coming weeks so please be patient, but add anything at all to the thread I mention above and we promise to get to them over the next few days/weeks/months. In the meantime, please enjoy!

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    IT expert advice please

    Running two anti-virus or endpoint security packages at the same time is generally a bad idea. They'll both try to hook into the same places and will frequently get in each other's ways.
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    Mike builds a teardrop (finished........but.......)

    I'd be more worried about repeated bumps causing the base of the bottle to wear through the button itself. Between the bottle being top-heavy (as Sam mentions) and the relatively narrow base that they're clamping in, a sideways bump from a pothole or similar will put a surprising amount of force...
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    Box junction stupidity

    'Served' means the date it arrived, but unless you can prove when it physically landed on your doormat, notices sent by post are 'deemed served' two days after posting. You may be able to get them to reset the clock if you did want to pay the reduced amount, on the grounds that you didn't...
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    U3A

    My mother was an active member of one of their music groups until she moved away from it, and spoke very highly of it. She also mentioned trying out some other U3A groups back when she first moved to that area and not getting along with them. As far as I understand things it's a fairly loose...
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    Google AI or ChatGPT

    All current LLMs have a tendency to do this to varying degrees, and it takes careful prompting to avoid it as much as possible. In some of them the 'system prompt' - the instructions that are given to it before you interact, that tell it how to respond, how to refer to itself, and so on - is...
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    Glut of soft fruit.....tip for keeping fresh

    One of my favourite things for plums is a frangipane tart. It can be made with frozen plums, if they're halved before freezing, but works better if you cook the tart(s) first and freeze it entire, then reheat in an oven to just warm. Of course that won't use up kilos of the things without a lot...
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    Terminology - Two countries, separated by a common language

    Yep, those are all definitely metonyms, in the form of a place being used to refer to an organisation based in that place. Another option would be "the Crown" to refer to either the monarch who wears it, or the government who represents it. Synecdoche would be "mouths to feed" (you're hopefully...
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    Terminology - Two countries, separated by a common language

    I'd say synecdoche is a subset of metonymy, so you wouldn't be wrong. A metonym is using one thing to refer to a closely related but different thing; if the relationship between them is that one thing is a part of the other then it's synecdoche. Incidentally, the only time I was actually taught...
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    Modern cooking — a rant.

    NB for the majority of Brits on here: these are all Fahrenheit temperatures. Do not try to smoke things at 225°C.
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    Mower spares pricing

    It's not just mowers either. My car needs the rear wiper motor replacing. The OEM Audi part is £210, or a third party compatible replacement is £30. Given that it's 16 years old and well out of warranty you can guess which one I chose.
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    The Mighty Sturgeon

    I know a few Scottish people who'd be quite upset by this thread title, at least until they saw the photo.
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    UK makers of hand tools

    Another easy one: Ashley Iles Edge Tools Ltd https://ashleyiles.co.uk/ As the name suggests: chisels and gouges. Originally made in Sheffield from 1948, and since 1967 in Lincolnshire.
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    When people get the wrong idea.

    Staines-upon-Thames?
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    How not to do Customer Service

    It probably had more to do with this being the time when I was flying all over for work, had an executive club gold card, and enough miles to book First. I'm quite sure I wouldn't get the same treatment today.
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    How not to do Customer Service

    On the other hand, around ten years back I decided to burn some air miles and go to New York for a few days. My bag didn't arrive, so BA's service desk gave me a $200 prepaid card to buy a change of clothes and toiletries while I waited for it. Of course, being the USA, they didn't think I'd...
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